Now many Buddhists accept that the one-time prince, Siddhartha Gautama, was born in a grove here some 26 centuries ago.

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Siddhartha Sanyal, chief India economist with Barclays Capital, said he now expected the main interest rate to be cut to 7.75% from 8%.

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His name is Siddhartha Guha, and like me, at any given time without checking the website he knows his record and ranking, more or less.

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Recent declines in gold and oil, if sustained, could continue helping this deficit problem in the coming months, Barclays Capital analysts led by Siddhartha Sanyal said today.

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An iconoclastic seeker-type with an enthusiasm for all things outdoors and motorized, he is a uniquely American icon, however: Call him Siddhartha on a Harley (or on an Indian).

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Siddhartha Sanyal, chief economist at Edelweiss Capital, a financial services firm in Mumbai, noted that exit polls tend to get influenced by the consensus view prevalent in the media.

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Similarly, author Siddhartha Mukherjee details how hundreds of thousands of women had radical mastectomies despite a total lack of evidence that this surgery is the best treatment for most patients.

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Siddhartha, to the smaller but still brashly ambitious sorts who fill out many of our other pages--this is an Asian business buffet, both in text and photography. (All the food stories in this issue must be affecting me.) Add to this mix the best of FORBES in the U.S. and hungry readers get their fill.

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