A SHORT HISTORY OF BOMBAY (1534 - 2008) - FROM BOM BAHIA TO BOMB BAY
1977
Issue Dated: December 14, 2008
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Initial Public Offering | Reliance Industry | Cross Maidan | Middle India | anti-capitalist | romantic era | Haji Mastan | Karim Lala | Dawood Ibrahim | Mafia don | jehadi terrorism | Rio de Janeiro | Earth Summit | Ozone layer | Maximum City | plague | Babri Masjid | pogrom | intelligencia | Subhash Ghai | Inter Services Intelligence | Tiger Memon | Chotta Rajan | Nationalist Don | Marathi pride | Me Mumbaikar | Victoria Terminal | Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminal | bloodsuckers | modus operandi | Madrid subway | London Tube blasts | carpetbaggers | moral policing | community profiling | cosmopolitan | torn asunder | purveyors of identity politics | parochialism | bashing up hapless |

As common man suffered from emergency excesses, one man came to inject a little smile in their life. In a time when more people were aware of the word ‘UFO’ than ‘IPO’, Dhirubhai Ambani issued the Initial Public Offering of Reliance Industry in Cross Maidan. As more than 58,000 potential investors jostle for space, ‘Middle India’ has arrived on the scene. In an era marked by anti-capitalist movies and literature, people decided to love this first generation entrepreneur and dreamer.
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