Services, telecom, housing, construction activities, real estate, electrical equipment and computer software and hardware continued to attract increased Foreign Direct Investment into India. According to India’s Reserve Bank, which is an arm of the government, FDI inflows during April-June 2008 crossed US$ 10.07 billion, 11 percent higher than the same period last year. For the [...]
Posted on August 29th, 2008 by Gunjan
I was honored this week to be named India Journal’s ‘Person of the Week’. Below is a reprint of their interview with me… CERRITOS, CA – Gunjan Bagla dons many hats. An entrepreneur, academic and most recently author, he has a keen sense of the market here in the US and in India. He relies [...]
Posted on August 22nd, 2008 by Gunjan
Earlier this week, Business Week carried an article by me assessing India’s chances of hosting the 2020 Olympics and created quite a stir (see the reader feedback). And today, the Wall Street Journal has a short piece on the same theme. Read both and you decide whose article is better researched. In any case since [...]
Posted on August 20th, 2008 by Gunjan
A week ago both Bloomberg News and the Wall Street Journal predicted that the major agreement between Indian billionaire Anil Ambani and Hollywood uber-director Steven Spielberg was less than a week ago. This blog here suggestted that it may take longer than that. Why? First, when you negotiate with India you have to look at [...]
Posted on August 16th, 2008 by Gunjan
Yesterday, India won its first ever solo Olympic Gold Medal with Abhinav Bindra in the men’s 10- meter air rifle competition. Underscoring the importance and power of cricket in India is that fact that the Board of Cricket Control in India (BCCI), promptly awarded Bindra with 2.5 million rupees (about $60,000). If you do business [...]
Posted on August 11th, 2008 by Gunjan
