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The Kolkata Literary Meet (Kalam) - the city’s annual date with books and ideas - is back with its thirteenth edition. Browse through the schedule below, bookmark the dates and look forward to a stimulating literary experience.

EVENT SCHEDULE

TUESDAY, JANUARY 21 , 2025

4:00 pm

Horticultural Garden: Grand Lawns

Inauguration by the Guest of Honor, Bernardine Evaristo

(Winner of the 2019 Booker Prize for her novel: Girl, Woman, Other)

Bernardine Evaristo

TUESDAY, JANUARY 21 , 2025

5:00 pm

Horticultural Garden: Grand Lawns

Francesc Miralles on his iconic book, Ikigai, and why it resonates with the youth across the globe. In conversation with Ruchira Das

Francesc Miralles

Ruchira Das

TUESDAY, JANUARY 21 , 2025

7:00 pm

Kala Mandir

 

A play by Girish Karnad featuring Shabana Azmi. Directed by Alyque Padamsee; Produced by Raell Padamsee’s ACE Productions

Shabana Azmi

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22 , 2025

2:15 pm

Horticultural Garden: Grand Lawns

Seeding A New Cinema - The Legacy of Shyam Benegal

Shabana Azmi and Rajit Kapur discuss the impact of the filmmaker on the country’s cinema. In conversation with Priyanka Roy

Shabana Azmi

Rajit Kapur

Priyanka Roy

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22 , 2025

3:00 pm

Horticultural Garden: HSBC Piazza

Defne Suman discusses her novel and a muse called Istanbul. In conversation with Chinmoy Guha

Defne Suman

Chinmoy Guha

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22 , 2025

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    On 8 Nov 2014, I wrote an article in BusinessWorld about the recently released book by Brad Stone on Amazon called The Everything Store . The link to the original article is here. I am also copy-pasting the article below.

    Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone’s ‘The Everything Store’ is about Jeff Bezos and his baby, Amazon. After the book was published, Bezos distanced himself from the book. Significantly his wife, MacKenzie Bezos, gave the book a one-star rating on Amazon saying it contains “numerous factual inaccuracies” and is “full of techniques which stretch the boundaries of non-fiction”. The book is based on a number of interviews that Stone conducted with Bezos, his staff and ex-colleagues to get a sense of the firm. What is very clear after reading the book is that Amazon is significant because it has the advantage of being a first mover, it is a game-changer, certainly for publishing.

    There are three points worth considering:

    1. Bezos was the first to exploit the potential of the internet and collaborate with start ups with new ideas. For instance, his acquisition of a firm that specialised in digital books, with the .mobi format, resulted in his insistence on making the files uploaded on Kindle to be DRM protected.
    2. He knew that sales ranks would be like a drug to authors, so he insisted that it change whenever a new order came in: thus influencing the gradual shift in publishing houses laying more emphasis on marketing and promotional activities than on editing and commissioning. (Whereas it cannot be an either/or situation, it has to be a combination.)
    3. Finally Bezos’s famous analogy of comparison that publishing firms are like gazelles and Amazon is a cheetah. This belief was integral to his strategy in agency pricing. He had to persuade publishers to give him the digital files to the books they published. (It required time since many publishers discovered that they did not have the rights to the digital

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    American multinational retail corporation operating department stores

    This article is about the retail chain. For other uses, see Walmart (disambiguation).

    Logo used since 2025

    Formerly
    • Wal-Mart Discount City (1962–1969)
    • Wal-Mart, Inc. (1969–1970)
    • Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (1970–2018)
    Company typePublic

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    ISINUS9311421039
    IndustryRetail
    PredecessorWalton's Five and Dime
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    FoundersSam Walton, Bud Walton
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    Number of locations

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    Area served

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    Key people

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    RevenueUS$680.99 billion (FY2025)

    Operating income

    		US$29.35 billion (FY2025)

    Net income

    		US$20.16 billion (FY2025)
    Total assetsUS$260.823 billion (FY2025)
    Total equityUS$97.421 billion (FY2025)
    OwnerWalton family (46%) (mainly via Walton Enterprises)

    Number of employees

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    Divisions
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    SubsidiariesList of subsidiaries
    Websitewalmart.com
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