What Money Can Buy in the Election Season
Votes, presumably. Every passing cycle, elections are becoming expensive affairs. And candidates need pots of money to campaign and win polls, spending caps notwithstanding
Ankita Mookherjee - April 27, 2024
How AI Could Derail RIL-Disney India Merger
AI can enable independent content creators to monetise on their own terms, potentially reshaping the media and entertainment industry
Manish Maheshwari - April 27, 2024
Green Globetrotting
Amid growing awareness about sustainable tourism, more people are hoping to reduce their carbon footprint. Besides benefitting the planet, sustainable tourism also presents the industry with the opportunity to grow responsibly
Naina Gautam - April 28, 2024
Complexities of Governance in a Democracy
Democracy is a work in progress and needs careful monitoring, managing, nurturing and protecting, writes entrepreneur and policy maker Sam Pitroda in his latest book The Idea of Democracy. He examines its workings globally and in India, observing distraction, distortion and derailment in democracy over the past few years
April 28, 2024
The Next 100 Years
The success of the media and entertainment industry lies in becoming dream machines that redefine pop culture. And there are no shortcuts to it
Suchetana Ray - April 27, 2024
India Needs 8 Million Jobs a Year, Not 10–12 Million: Bibek Debroy
India can keep growing at 7% for the next five years, and joblessness is not a pan-India problem, says Bibek Debroy, chairman of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council
Parth Singh - April 27, 2024
The Faultline Called Unemployment
With youths accounting for a staggering majority of the unemployed population in India, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, which claims to have put India on a sound growth track, has some tough questions to answer as it seeks a third term at the Centre
Parth Singh - April 27, 2024
It Is Okay for Founders To Go Slow: Sanjeev Bikhchandani
Founders often take shortcuts for fast growth and higher valuation, sometimes by mistake and sometimes driven by greed and pressure, says Sanjeev Bikhchandani, co-founder and executive vice chairman of Info Edge, a pure play internet company
Neeraj Thakur - April 27, 2024
Fault in the Formula for India's Chemical Sector
Seven years ago, when industry headwinds began to hit China in the form of stricter domestic environment guidelines, trade war with the US and Covid-19, India, with a robust chemical sector, stood a chance to improve its prospects. Yet, it failed to make decent gains
Devanshu Singla - April 27, 2024
A. Balasubramanian: A Journey From Melattur to Mumbai
Work is worship and the office is like a temple, the Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund MD and CEO believes. He says he spends around 85% of his time on work and the rest on social engagements. Classical music plays in his office at the beginning of the workday to spread positive vibrations
Kundan Kishore - April 28, 2024