Reverse chronology

In 2006, Hutchison Telecommunications International Ltd. (HTIL) announced the sale of its interests in Hutchison Essar Ltd. (HEL). HTIL was incorporated in Cayman Islands and HEL was incorporated in India. HTIL held major stake in HEL through a structure of various companies, more specifically CGP Investments Ltd. incorporated in Cayman Islands in 1998. In 2006, HTIL invited bids for the stake sale. In February, 2007 Vodafone Plc. emerged as the successful bidder, bidding over $11bn for the…

3. Bleeding Edge: waiting to be reassembled The ‘Word’ is definitely an interesting concept in The Crying of Lot 49, simply because of the myriad of analyses and meanings it received (cf. Grant 2008; Schaub 2013). What perhaps then is even more intriguing is its reappearance in Pynchon’s latest novel, Bleeding Edge, almost half a century later: ‘[Maxine is talking in DeepArcher to an enigmatic woman, after September 11. The woman says:] “Only here to have a look. Find out how long I can stay…