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"If we are integrating with the world, we will benefit when the world goes up and suffer when the world goes down"  Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission This is the reason for this post. I read this…

From cars to watches to mobile phones to computers all the manufacturers and service providers are vying for one big pie – The rural India. At least 70% of the Indian population is living in rural areas. That is some handsome…

India’s domestic industry has suffered a ‘material injury’ because of Chinese products invading India. China was dumping Vitamin-C into Indian markets. Indian government has slapped a anti-dumping duty of $3.99 per kg. We all know…

Okay, on this blog we have been talking about constant rise of India and reasons on why India will become the next super-power. There are thousands of articles on the web talking about power shift from West to East, where Chindia (a new…

India is currently the 2nd largest Mobile Market in the world after China, adding nearly 10-12 million subscribers on average monthly. At the end of April 2009, Indian Mobile subscriber base was pegged at 403.66 million, as per recent…

That headline must have surprised you, especially because it is a known factor that India Inc. is shelling out much fatter pay packages than it did 10 years back. Infact, even a salary 20k p.m for a middle class is considered to be below…

WOW ! one of the better 10 minutes I spent in last few days – and it was spent watching and listening to a video Interview of Scott Anthony, president of Innosight, created by Harvard Business. I got to get my hands on that recently…

And the winners are BSNL, Air India and Oil India. All 3 of them are Public Sector Units (PSU). This is in line with the new government's push to divest stakes in many of the PSU's. And they promise to unlock some 3 lakh crores of money to…

Transparency International recently released the Global corruption barometer for 2009 - it reveals that our Indian Neta’s for whom we cast our all important votes are the MOST corrupt lot, even more than Police and law officials ! …

While I was reading this post on Techcrunch today, I was wondering about the health of Indian Newspaper Ad Sales compared to that of US, and I was quite surprised with what I found. Indian Newspaper Advertising is not only healthy at…

Dictionary.com has this definition for entrepreneur : a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, esp. a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk. I think business is something which produces something and in return…

These two acquisitions were the cynosure of all eyes in the past years. Is the world looking at these big-ticket acquisitions with the same respect? I doubt it. Corus to me is the first thing that went wrong for Tata group. It paid a…

Which countries do you think survived the economic Recession best? Yes, India is one of the top 3 countries that survived this downturn very well. Below are the full results from the Servcorp International Business Confidence Survey which…

Cloud computing is the latest buzzword in the information technology world. Everybody is in it. Most famous of it is the Amazon’s cloud. This of course comes after twitter has taken the top 5 places. A little bit of low-down on how I…

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 –…

Now here is something I think will be really a big win-win situation for employees as well as corporates.   If you have not understood what I am saying, here it is – IBM has announced a innovative partnership with Boston based…

I strongly feel the IPL matches are fixed and it is not the players who are doing it. If I have to put in our lousy cricket commentator's words  I just get the feeling that most of the IPL matches are fixed”. Guess the commentator?…

Everybody has their own agenda for reforms. It ranges from subsidies to tax cuts and eventually to stimulus packages. In India people are confused between tax cuts and stimulus packages. What we have seen so far are tax cuts not stimulus…

What a revelation this has been? Few months back the question was Does the government has the will to reduce stake in Navratnas? Now, that question is out of the window as there is a clear majority and a crystal clear answer. We can now…

Building a temple is the ultimate glory in India and is the pinnacle for admiration for a person. Few celebrities and cricketers have this privilege. What should people do in a world of new found of capitalism? They will start a stock…