India’s increasingly assertive role in international affairs necessitates a robust and independent intellectual foundation. In a world where geo...
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Delhi, India’s historic and political heart, stands at a pivotal moment. For decades, it has been a city of immense potential, rich in culture, ...
Monday, June 09, 2025
"Dubai is the best (Indian) city to live in," a friend quipped at Dubai airport, a sentiment that resonated as I encountered numerous Delhi/Mumb...
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
One crisp evening, over steaming cups of coffee, a conversation with a seasoned business leader, chairman of a prominent Indian conglomerate, tu...
Thursday, March 13, 2025
India’s ambition to double its economy to $7 trillion by 2030 hinges on a broad strategy that includes reforms, infrastructure development, inve...
Saturday, October 26, 2024
In the current geopolitical system, transitioning from a unipolar to a multipolar world, an irony confronts us all on the one hand, a rapidly in...
Friday, July 19, 2024
Advocacy for policy making and adaptation towards policy execution have undergone multitude of changes. This has led to a transformation of Publ...
Monday, May 27, 2024
In 2019, there were 8,054 candidates representing 673 parties. Parties and candidates spent an estimated USD 8.7 billion to woo more than 900 mi...
Saturday, April 20, 2024
India’s growth path in recent times has been the talk at several global forums by various pundits. India, pegging the last quarter growth around...
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
India will be a USD 4 trillion economy by the end of 2023-24 and a USD 10 trillion by 2030. India’s vision for growth and development is focused...
Saturday, November 04, 2023
Public Affairs, Public Policy and Advocacy have witnessed a gradual metamorphosis in the last few years. The corporate function which played its...
Thursday, October 12, 2023
Being the world’s largest and the oldest democracies, the India-US partnership is evolving economically as well as strategically..
I arriv...
Wednesday, July 19, 2023
The India story is dynamic and promising for the coming decade. While we move towards 2047, the next seven years are vital. India has fared bett...
Tuesday, June 06, 2023
WHILE WE MUST FOCUS ON FDI, EQUAL ENTHUSIASM SHOULD BE SHOWN FOR DOMESTIC INVESTMENT. INDIAN FIRMS AND THEIR INVESTMENTS ARE THE BRAND A...
Friday, April 07, 2023
So, after the hiatus of two years, the Winter Davos World Economic Forum (53rd)meeting kicked off yesterday evening at the sprawling Congress Ce...
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
Last few days, we have witnessed a severe cold wave in Delhi and North India. At 10 degrees centigrade I am struggling in Gurugram. I was imagin...
Saturday, January 14, 2023
After a hiatus of eight months (and not the usual 12 months), the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting is back. The 53rd annual meeting of ...
Thursday, January 12, 2023
At a time when the leading economies globally are struggling with an impending slowdown and inflationary pressures, the world is looking at Indi...
Saturday, December 24, 2022
The last decade has witnessed a major shift in how public affairs and the policy advocacy space is perceived in India. This evolving idea has es...
Monday, November 28, 2022
The Public affairs & Policy landscape in India has metamorphosed gradually over the last two decades. Today, Policy professionals have becom...
Saturday, October 01, 2022
Events over the past two years have seen the World in turmoil. Economies for the most part are hurting, employment opportunities have under gone...
Monday, September 12, 2022
A little over two years ago, Covid-19 — a once in a century pandemic — upturned our lives like nothing we have ever seen before. Worse, the dead...
Thursday, July 07, 2022
All good things come to an end. So did the first summer at Davos. But then this was a bonus; come winter and all of us will be back here again.<...
Friday, May 27, 2022
Dialling Geopolitics
Given the exigent circumstances triggered by the Russia-Ukraine war and the strong views, it was wid...
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
Swiss hospitality is legendary. In fact, one has a lot to learn from Swiss about punctuality, service with a smile and attention to detail. It i...
Monday, May 23, 2022
This year may well be the “India Everywhere” moment again. Not only is India part of the global conversation, especially given its willingness t...
Saturday, May 21, 2022
Every year the Davos festivities include one session exclusively for the veterans — specically those who have attended this global high table ev...
Friday, May 20, 2022
This time of the year there won’t be any snow at Davos, neither the biting cold. A summer meeting means a lighter travel bag for sure.More impor...
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Corporate Affairs function is purely based on relationships and secondly that it is very local function and thus necessitates local talent to do...
Monday, November 29, 2021
Institutional and structural reforms are pre-requisites for India to attain maintain double digit growth.
Policy measures...
Monday, October 18, 2021
The past 70 plus years, India’s GDP growth has been through a period of highs and lows. In comparison to other countries, India has always prove...
Sunday, October 17, 2021
Big bang economic reforms of the 1990s, as we all know, helped change India. This has been followed by several incremental and somewhat substant...
Saturday, October 16, 2021
The other day, as I was going through my morning newspapers, something caught my attention. It was heartening to see the state of Telangana proa...
Wednesday, August 18, 2021
Though covid couldn’t have come at a worse time, it presents an opportunity for India to undertake wideranging reforms to become self-reliant. B...
Wednesday, September 09, 2020
The field of Public Affairs has traversed different paths. In the last few years, the Public Affairs professionals have evolved to become an int...
Friday, November 07, 2014
Risk management for business is an emerging function for public affairs professionals globally. But the approach to risk management may differ f...
Friday, November 07, 2014
