Can Walmart replicate retail success in India?

I personally feel Walmart -Bharti combination will succed, due to good management team they have in place.

Craig Wimsatt - Chief operating officer

Arvind Mediratta is the head of business

Also , reason for feeling more excited stems from a belief—partly based on reason and partly on an imagination that may be running wild—that the combination of Bharti and Wal-Mart will make a bigger impact than any other combination of Bharti and an international retailer, or Wal-Mart and another Indian partner (or Wal-Mart on its own) would have made. In my view, this particular combination is incredibly potent and has the capability of providing a very strong challenge to the other extraordinary incumbent: Reliance Retail, Big Bazaar, etc... Reliance, as only a few if any would choose to disagree, is one of the most successful and probably the most-determined-too-succeed business enterprise in India. The extraordinary vision and entrepreneurship of its promoters and the leadership team are superbly matched with an exceptional capability to implement the most audacious of plans in an unparalleled time and cost-effective manner. However, Wal-Mart remains the most successful retail business in the world. At $300 billion plus in revenue, it dwarfs not only other retail businesses anywhere in the world but also almost all other industrial enterprises too. It is no wonder that collectively, the Walton family is the richest family in the world, well ahead of Bill Gates and others. Envious competitors and armchair critics may take some comfort in its much-publicised retreats from select markets outside the US but it cannot take anything away from its very well-honed retail business operation/management skills that have allowed it to remain in pole position in the most competitive of all major retail markets in the world—the US—for over two decades. Likewise, Sunil Mittal and his family have demonstrated that they are entrepreneurs par excellence and brilliant managers of new-age businesses. Further, Sunil Mittal's success has to be seen in the background that he and his family have already built a multi-billion dollar business from scratch while facing almost all the challenges that India has to offer any start-up.