Amazon's Jeff Bezos visits India, invokes Mahatma Gandhi’s teachings at his memorial – India Today, Indiatoday.in

Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos is India and one of the first things he did was visit Mahatma Gandhi’s memorial in Delhi. And understandably, one of the first things he did was post a video on Twitter of his visit. For obvious reasons, when the world’s richest man decided to pay his respects to the Mahatama, or in his words “someone who truly changed the world”, he decided to so wearing Indian traditional attire – white kurta and an orange half-jacket.

His tweet which captured it all showed the whole exchange. “Just landed in India and spent a beautiful afternoon paying my respects to someone who truly changed the world.” Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. “- Mahatma Gandhi,” he tweeted.

Just landed in India and spent a beautiful afternoon paying my respects to someone who truly changed the world. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. “- Mahatma Gandhi.pic.twitter.com/xDXAT9cBgf

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For the uninitiated, the man behind Amazon is here in India for a two-day flagship event being organized by the company for small and medium businesses. The event will kick-start in Delhi on Wednesday, and along the sidelines of the event, he is expected to meet key leaders and policymakers, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

However, there can be a few troubles waiting for Bezos while he’s here in India, and his trip may not just all be about wearing traditional Indian attire and meeting the biggest leaders of the country. Instead, he could end up having to face difficult question by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) which is initiating an investigation into alleged competition law violations by Amazon Inc and Walmart-backed Flipkart.

In its order issued on Monday, the CCI said: “The Commission observes that the exclusive arrangements between smartphone / mobile phone brands and e-commerce platform / select sellers selling exclusively on either of the platforms, as demonstrated in the information, coupled with the allegation of linkages between these preferred sellers and OPs (opposite parties) alleged by the Informant merits an investigation.

Änd the CCI isn’t the only one protesting. The country largest traders’ body, Confederation of Indian Traders (CAIT), has also decided to hold a protest march at Jantar Mantar, Delhi, between 14: am to (*********************************: 30 p m on Wednesday against “predatory discount practices” of e-commerce companies like Amazon and Flipkart.