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
Dial M for Mukesh
The Reliance-Disney merger is Mukesh Ambani’s answer to Google and Meta in India. Here’s how…
Abdul Haleem Sherif - April 27, 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
Digitisation Pushing Growth in Lending Segment: Naveen Kukreja
Over the past five to seven years, the digital-payments sector has grown stupendously, transcending economic and geographical barriers. Naveen Kukreja, co-founder and chief executive officer of Paisabazaar, a digital-lending platform, talks about five drivers of growth in the lending segment in the country
March 01, 2024
Shah Rukh Khan: The Baazigar Behind Bollywood’s Resurrection
After lacklustre years, the overwhelming success of Pathaan and Jawan this year has given hope to other Bollywood movies waiting in the aisles of benefitting from a rub-off effect of King Khan’s Midas touch
Vinita Bhatia - December 01, 2023
Himalayan Triumph
Within months of becoming chief minister of Himachal Pradesh, a mountain state vulnerable to natural disasters, Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu proved his mettle by spearheading the evacuation of 75,000 tourists during floods in Kullu this year
Neeraj Thakur - December 01, 2023
Get Rid Of The E, S & G Of The ESG: Aswath Damodaran
Aswath Damodaran is a fierce critic of the environmental, social and governance (ESG) concept. The corporate finance and valuation guru at the Stern School of Business at New York University believes that he “can stir the pot” on this issue. In an email interview with Rajiv Tikoo, Damodaran questions the basis of the ESG concept and its “hindsight revisionism” in the context of the Adani episode and the Ukraine war
Rajiv Tikoo - March 28, 2023
Crash Of The Titans
Just like elder brother Mukesh Ambani, Anil Ambani started off on the solid ground prepared by their father Dhirubhai. However, hardly has any other family business seen such sharply contrasted trajectories as theirs. How did Anil Ambani lose the advantage? Nandini Vijayaraghavan traces the journeys of four well-known entrepreneurs whose businesses took off energetically but failed to retain the momentum and ended up struggling for survival
Nandini Vijayaraghavan - February 27, 2023
A Republic's Riddle
January 26, 2023: photos of pageantry on display at the Republic Day parade, ads announcing discounts across categories, videos of Shah Rukh Khan serenading Deepika Padukone, announcing the return of Bollywood at the box office
Suchetana Ray - January 29, 2023
S. Jaishankar: Modi’s Sure-Footed Negotiator For The World
The foreign minister has been the fort wall defending the country’s foreign policies, most recently on the Russia-Ukraine war. He has been lauded for projecting India as a confident and unapologetic player in international politics
Seema Guha - November 29, 2022