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Many of you would instantly jump on me saying – what a ridiculous question? – Offcourse an appreciated Rupee is good for us any day. Is it so? I actually had this debate couple of days back with a friend of mine who is in USA –…

It is not a April fool joke and the date is a strange coincidence. Our financial year starts from April 1 and thus the coincidence. This news is doing the rounds in the Blogosphere for a few days now. I was just waiting for the conventional…

Do what you do best and outsource the rest. There is no time like recession to re-think your business strategy. Recession is also the time to know what wasn't working and work towards what will work. That seems to be what every company…

Brand Finance PLC, UK based brand valuation company has released the BrandFinance Global Ranking 500. This list gives a comprehensive list of all the banks across the world with the rankings based on their methodology. The methodology is…

Nobody really knows what has happened at Satyam. No one will ever know unless Mr. Raju writes an autobiography. Ever since the whole thing broke out there are numerous reports about what has happened and what will happen at Satyam. Some…

Don’t we all love to be in a world where everything is dynamic? Aren’t we all sick and tired of carrying credit cards, debit cards and cash in our wallet? Don’t we all dream of a day where every transaction is done by a common…

Are we going nuts over India’s inflation touching 11.5%? Think about a country where the inflation is 2.2 million percent. Yes, that’s right Zimbabwe’s inflation has risen from 165,000% in February to whooping 2.2 million. Can you…

I have been following the rupee dollar battle since I started this blog last year. It had been one sided battle through out last year. Last year was won by Rupee hands down. Rupee was valued at nearly 45 rupee at the start of last year and…

I have been having some very interesting comments to my articles I have previously written on Indian real estate specifically targeting the Pune market. However, the situation seems to be common across most upcoming cities and Metros in…

Way back in late nineties when I procured my first mobile phone (a.k.a brick), I used to think more than 10 times before making a phone call from my cellular. Do you know why? Each minute of a outgoing call used to cost me a whooping…

Last year around June I had written about the dollar plunge against the Rupee. For all the Indians living in U.S, it was one of the most concerning aspect as any remittances to India were nearly 15% lower. Most of them were expecting…

The real estate prices in India have soared to gigantic proportions in last few years. The prices have soared as high as 300% in last 3 years. Although, consumer earnings too have grown, it is no match for the steep rise in real estate…

India's stock market and Rupee growth has been fast and furious. The fall seems to come even faster. I have been going gaga over the rise of Indian stock market as well as the rise of Rupee against dollar in the recent past. This blog…

India's economy is growing at fast pace, so are the earnings of Indians. A single visit to a Mall or superstore will give you a glimpse of amount of money Indians have in their pockets. But are Indian's just spending or are they saving…

However, both these South Asian countries are facing tremendous growth hurdle in form of corruption. According to the Bribe Payers Index released by Transparency International, India and China have highest amount of corruption amongst the…

The Indian advertising market has been growing at extremely fast pace since last 5 to 7 years, thanks to consistent economic growth of around 9% and huge rise in the number of Multinationals entering India in last few years. What better…

One of the major problems that I face during my travel to India is the speed and reliability of broadband connections. In US, majority of users have 4 to 6 mbps lines at their home and reliability problems are next to none. Downloading a…

Mobile commerce in India is gaining quite a bit of momentum, and why not. India currently boasts more than 200 million mobile subscribers growing at nearly 100% yoy. Online E-commerce is yet to catch up, but it also has started picking up…

I was talking to an American friend of mine yesterday about India. He mentioned something that really intrigued me. He said: ’India is growing too fast and furious, it is not good. It can boomerang India back where it all…

The income levels of Indians have increased phenomenally over last few years and so is the standard of living. The economy is on the rise and India is coming out from being called a third world country to a developing country.