Countries like Norway are seeing a 50 per cent adoption of electric cars. There are targets to reduce carbon dioxide and the best way to do that is to move away from internal combustion and to look at alternative sources. Electric cars have gathered momentum around the world but not so much in India. What are the...
Electric cars have really gathered momentum around the world but in India, not so much. I would like to set a background of electric cars vis-à-vis the usual internal combustion engine which has been around since the car was invented in 1885 and it is still around very much but obviously, we are seeing the...
I was an active player until 2015, when I retired to increase focus on and publicity of the women’s cricket team. Therefore, I chose the field of media. The 2017 Women’s World Cup final was painful for all of us. I was in the press box for that final, one of three Indians covering the tournament...
Everything was going pretty well for the markets up until March, you are talking about how things might peak in the US economy, the US economy through 2019 has seen a growth around 2-2.5 to 3 percent. Trump era policy is working and he is pretty much beating his own trumpet saying how much the...
Much of the world is seeking to bring manufacturing home, but how are they going to it? What will enable India to bring back manufacturing to its shores and become a factory for the rest of the world? Does digital have a role to play here? The trend has been there for a while, geo-politics has...
You work with start-ups, tell us a little bit about scaling up; how do you transition? Also, what advice do you give family promoters on professionalising? I have been involved with scaling up for 15-odd years, much before it became fashionable. It has taught me to take a cold-hearted look so as to what is the...
MY FIRST MEMORY IS OF LEARNING ABOUT ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE IN SCHOOLS THROUGH LECTURES AND TEXTBOOKS. EVERY TIME THERE WAS A LECTURE ABOUT ENVIRONMENT, I ALWAYS CLOSED MY EYES AND THOUGHT WHAT A BORING LECTURE AND I AM SURE THAT IS WHAT MOST OF US THINK. SO, IN THE INTEREST OF NOT MAKING IT...
BRANDS AND DESIGN HAVE AN INCREDIBLE VALUE IF THEY ARE UTILISED WELL IN AN ORGANISATION. THE PROBLEM IS THAT A LOT OF US THINK OF A BRAND AS A LOGO AND SO THE IMPACT OF BRAND IS LIMITED. TODAY I AM GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE POWER OF BRAND TO TRANSFORM AN ORGANISATION AND INDIVIDUALS. Brand...
SOME OF YOU MAY REMEMBER THAT I HAVE ADDRESSED ROTARY ON HIV A FEW YEARS PREVIOUSLY. THEN, I SHARED THE EXAMPLE OF THE DECLINE OF THE INCA AND AZTEC POPULATIONS AFTER 1520. AT THAT TIME, AZTEC NUMBERS EXCEEDED 24 MILLION WHILE INCAS EXCEEDED 12 MILLION. AND, YET, THE ESPAGNOLE PREVAILED. NOT BECAUSE THEY BROUGHT WITH...
HUMAN SUFFERING IS ONE OF LIFE’S MOST CONFUSING DILEMMAS. WE OFTEN FEEL WHY DOES ONE PERSON GO THROUGH SO MANY PROBLEMS WHILE ANOTHER SEEMS TO SAIL THROUGH? WHY IS ONE PERSON BORN WITH A SILVER SPOON WHILE ANOTHER GOES THROUGH PROBLEMS WITHOUT SEEMING TO DESERVE THEM. FORTUNATELY, FOR US, OUR FOREFATHERS COLLECTED DATA ON...
HOW HAS THE PANDEMIC HAS AFFECTED THE LUXURY TRAVEL INDUSTRY? I don’t think any of us has spent so much time thinking of travel as we have done in the last year. We have had the chance to think about what it means to us, experienced lack of travel, felt what it is like when you...
‘THE WOMEN WHO RULED INDIA’ COMBINES TWO OF MY PASSIONS. ONE, IS HISTORY AND THE OTHER IS WOMEN EMPOWERMENT. AS A PART OF SO MANY ORGANISATIONS WHICH EMPOWER WOMEN, WE LOOK AT FEATURES AND QUALITIES; WHAT ARE THE THINGS THAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP THEM LEAD A BETTER POSITION IN LIFE AND GIVE THE...