mahindra he was also the one who opened up investment opportunities in growing teak trees the base concept has since been picked up by others in different waystruly innovation and experimentation arent in short supply in this part of the country of all of indian manufacturing companies suresh krishnaled sundram fasteners was the first to set up a production base in china it was again a tvs group company sundaram clayton which became the first indian enterprise to land the japanese deming award and who could forget the daredevil hostile open offer made by carborundum universal a murugappa group company to acquire shares in wendt india in the early 1990s that was totally unexpected from a socalled conservative group during the days of the dotcom boom citybased sify then known as satyam infoway stunned the nation by announcing the buyout of a little known dotcom outfit india world communications private ltd for a staggering 500 crorehaving worked with promoters across india as their agency one reason probably we never got to be seen in this innovation space is because entrepreneurs in tamil nadu dont believe in speaking about anything till it is a success and only when they are 100 sure it works perfectly sums up vidhya srinivasan chief marketing officer tristha global pvt ltd the author is a senior financial journalist based in chennai