Why do large Indian companies have to get into absolutely *everything*?

August 11th, 2008

This post actually started out as a reply to a comment on Ashish’s (from pluggD.in) post on Reliance launching launching its Direct to Home (DTH) service called BigTV. Rohit - clearly quite frustrated asked “Why do large Indian companies have to get into EVERYTHING. Why not the world leaders in at least ONE thing.” Well Rohit, I can’t really tell you the answer to the second part, but let me say, as far as the first part is concerned - I hear you man, I feel you. To quote an aquaintance, ‘I’m afraid of the day I wake up, walk into the bathroom, pull out my Reliance toothbrush, squeeze on some Reliance toothpaste Read the rest of this entry »