India ranked 45th in the internationally respected 2009 Legatum Prosperity Index – which embraces social and political data to provide a wider measure of national success. The purpose of the Prosperity Index is to encourage policymakers, scholars, the media, and the interested public to take a holistic view of prosperity and understand how it is [...]
Posted on December 20th, 2009 by Gunjan
My book on Doing Business in India was published over a year ago. Major media and the public at large have been very kind to it and it is now established as the “go-to” primer on the subject, far ahead of other books on similar themes. I’ve been blessed to be mentioned in sources as [...]
Posted on December 18th, 2009 by Gunjan
When Indians speak English, there is occasionally a tendency to say “few” when what is meant is “a few” or to say “little” when the intended meaning is “a little”. The indefinite article “a” does not exist in languages such as Hindi. Often this little nuance causes Western executives to mis-interpret the meaning of a [...]
Posted on December 17th, 2009 by Gunjan
The United States if often (justly) criticized for viewing India in hyphenated way with Pakistan. Certainly this view has been prevalent since the days of President Richard Nixon and his formerly India-hating adviser Dr. Henry Kissinger (who famously referred the India’s Prime Minister as “an old witch” and used even more colorful language for Indians [...]
Posted on December 15th, 2009 by Gunjan
The global production of bananas is estimated at 48.9 million tonnes out of which 10.4 million tonnes, is contributed by India. India is followed by Brazil (5.5 million tonnes), Indonesia (2.3 million tonnes), Philippines (3.8 million tonnes), China (1.9 million tonnes) and Australia (1.8 million tonnes). India rise in bananas is a recent phenomenon. Today [...]
Posted on December 15th, 2009 by Gunjan
