IN June this year, two Indian entrepreneurs received awards from the Kiel Institute. They were Sunil Bharti Mittal and Baba Kalyani. Together with Mary Robinson, the first female Irish President, and Jeffrey Sachs, a professor from Columbia University, USA, they received the Global Economy Prize.

Mittal is head of the Bharti Group, one of the largest telecommunications manufacturers in India, who is often called the “father” of the cellular