·Economy, Policy & Society
NPAs: A problem that refuses to go away
An extract from Rajrishi Singhal’s book, 'Slip, Stitch and Stumble: The Untold Story of India's Financial Sector Reforms'
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·Business & Strategy
Paytm: Emperor’s new clothes
At the heart of the fintech major’s precarious slide lies the abject failure of its Super App strategy. But that’s just one part of the story.
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
·Business & Strategy
Creative marketing in the digital age: How far is too far?
Marketing lessons from the Poonam Pandey episode
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Vivek Sharma
Founder, Altivyst Advisors
·Economy, Policy & Society
A dangerous tit-for-tat game is afoot in the Middle East
The US, China and Russia are entangled in a complex way. And the rising tensions in the region are already disrupting shipping and the oil trade
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Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
·Economy, Policy & Society
Masterclass: The World in 2024
A stellar panel unpacks the primary drivers of complex change facing the world: The implications of elections in more than half the democratic world; the US-China rivalry and the economic disruptions of their mutual de-risking; assessing Global South as a tangible international entity; and more
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·Economy, Policy & Society
Is India too late to the Global South party?
China may have already stolen a march with its massive financing, infra investments and deals to access natural resources and stranglehold on markets across the developing world. Yet India may still have some aces up its sleeve. The sixth and final column in our Year End Special series on making sense of the biggest economic and geopolitical shifts and what they signal
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Pramit Pal Chaudhuri
South Asia head, Eurasia Group
·Economy, Policy & Society
Is Africa swapping out Europe for China?
The political economy calculus in Africa is changing. Any China-EU rivalry in Africa will only benefit the continent. The fifth column in our Year End Special series on making sense of the biggest economic and geopolitical shifts and what they signal
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Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
·Economy, Policy & Society
Is the US in strategic retreat in the Indian Ocean region?
And does China have the capability to increasingly dominate this space? The fourth column in our Year End Special series on making sense of the biggest economic and geopolitical shifts and what they signal
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Kanti Prasad Bajpai
Visiting Professor, Ashoka University, Emeritus Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
·Business & Strategy
Eight best business books of 2023
An annual round up of the most memorable books of the year
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner, Advent International
·Economy, Policy & Society
Does the current US-China detente signal a thawing of relations?
Neither of them wants an economic MAD (mutually assured destruction), and this is a tactical pause. This is the third column in our Year End Special series on making sense of the biggest economic and geopolitical shifts and what they signal
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G Venkat Raman
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Management, Indore
·Economy, Policy & Society
Caught in existential dilemmas, how is Europe’s political thinking shaping up?
Europe is caught between the left and right, antisemitism and Islamophobia, accepting asylum seekers and pushing back boats. The time for a delicate balancing act may be over. This is the second column in our Year End Special series on making sense of the biggest economic and geopolitical shifts and what they signal
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Sir Graham Watson
Distinguished Visiting Fellow, University of Toronto - Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
·Economy, Policy & Society
Is the world increasingly becoming a dangerous place to live?
The existential threat to human civilization is not from wars, but from nuclear disaster and climate change. This is the first in our Year End Special series on making sense of the biggest economic and geopolitical shifts and what they signal
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Sundeep Waslekar
President, Strategic Foresight Group
·Leadership & Organisation
Indian cricket’s moment of truth
BCCI faces a set of crucial decisions ahead that could set the pace for the future
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
·Leadership & Organisation
Why building corporate democracies still matter
In this age of AI, creating an employee-first culture may seem counter-intuitive. But not if you believe in the primacy of building human relationships at the workplace
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
·Business & Strategy
Thompson ad mortem. Who cares?
Why did WPP decide to snuff out the identities of three of its most storied agencies—Thompson, Y&R and Wunderman—to create a new entity VML, the world’s largest creative company? The clues lie in the stock markets—and the immense pressures acting on its CEO Mark Read
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Shekar Swamy
MD & Group CEO, R K SWAMY Ltd