There’s tumult in toon town. Nine years after scouting the Indian market, Mickey Mouse finally has an Indian passport. And leading the Disney waltz into the country is TV industry veteran Rajat Jain. With Disney making up for lost time,

Vasudevan Thulasidas is flying on a wing and a prayer. As chairman and managing director of Air-India, the 55-year-old IAS officer has been given three years to turn around the airline, whose baggage includes entrenched unions and a balance sheet awash in red ink for most of the past 20 years.