Indians And Many Other Tricks
(Juliet Nstma)
Let me venture away from Uganda this week. First and foremost, Africa (through Ghana) met Brazil and for the fifth time. And as before, Africa lost. Though it was beaten 0-3, it wasn't a bad result. I just wished Ghana had tapped in one for pride.
A joke around the office is that Ghanaians should have exchanged shirts at the beginning of the game and not at the end so that the bad 'juju' would have shifted to the Brazilians during the match. Bottom line is that Brazilian footballers are a class apart and I wonder what team will beat them.
An ironic thing is that Pele, the most famous Brazilian footballer, believed that Africa should have taken the World Cup in 1990. He's got a lot of waiting to do.
Now to India, she's truly shining. She can boast of having the third richest man in the world. His name is Lakshmi Niwas Mittal of the Mittal Steel-Arcelor Company. Arcelor, a European steel company, agreed be bought at a cool $33.35 billion bid making him the number one producer of steel in the world. He will now supply a hundred million tonnes of steel to world. And this is only 10 percent of the total world supply of steel.
This is not the first merger of 55-year-old Mittal's business expertise. In 2004, he engineered the merger of his two companies, Ispat International and LMN Holdings, with the US-based International Steel Group to form Mittal Steel. He's come a long way from his humble beginning in northern India, where he began his career in the early 1970s in his father's small steel firm.
In 1976, the Mittal family immigrated to Indonesia, where Lakshmi Mittal started Ispat Indo.
The LNM (Lakshmi Niwas Mittal) Group is an international steel making association that has over 135,000 employees at its steel making operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Trinidad, Germany, France, Kazakhstan, Algeria, Poland, Romania, Czech Republic, South Africa and Indonesia.
What is it that makes Asians tick when it comes to money? Is it fiscal discipline? Is it sacrifice? Or yoga? Whoever knows this secret please contact me on 0772?.
And you thought that the richest Indian you had ever known was Sudhir Ruparelia and that Meera Group of Companies was the bomb.
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