The results of a survey published by consultancy firm Nielsen indicates that Indians are most optimistic about job prospects and personal finances compared to the rest of the world. The Nielsen Global Consumer Confidence report that 92% of Indians were optimistic about their job prospects over the next year. In addition, the survey Nielsen published [...]
Posted on January 30th, 2010 by Gunjan
When I teach my seminars on “Business with India” I am often asked how women should prepare for a work trip to India and how they should behave. Conflicting advice from well meaning Indian Americans makes matters worse for many first time travelers. I addressed this subject in my book “Doing Business in 21st Century [...]
Posted on January 30th, 2010 by Gunjan
In 2009 “India maintained robust growth (6.7%) without Beijing’s hefty stimulus of $585 billion in part because it is less exposed to the international economy. China’s exports represented 35% of GDP compared with only 24% for India in 2008. Thus India was afforded more protection from the worst effects of the financial crisis in the [...]
Posted on January 30th, 2010 by Gunjan
Before he got a mobile phone seven years ago, Vijay Navle, a small Mumbai fish trader, spent much of his time and scant income travelling on buses and trains, according to the Financial Times. Every day, he would make the five-hour round trip to visit fishermen living on the Arabian Sea on the north of [...]
Posted on January 28th, 2010 by Gunjan
Top executives of companies are generally a sanguine bunch. But the economic crisis of 2008 shook their confident about future prospects and the recovery in confidence has not been uniform. According the 2010 Price Waterhouse Survey of 1,198 CEOs, 81 per cent of CEOs worldwide are confident of their prospects (compared to 61 pecent a [...]
Posted on January 28th, 2010 by Gunjan
While India new airports at Bangalore (BLR) and Hyderabad (HYD) are quite modern and efficient, there are are still air traffic challenges in the skies and are exacerbated severely by the winter fog in Delhi and other parts of northern India. Its two busiest airports, the Indira Gandhi Airport in Delhi (DEL) and the Chatrapati [...]
Posted on January 24th, 2010 by Gunjan
This year, the U.S. Postal Service recognizes Mother Teresa, the India citizen who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work. Noted for her compassion toward the poor and suffering, Mother Teresa, a Roman Catholic nun and honorary U.S. citizen, served the sick and destitute of India and the world for nearly [...]
Posted on January 21st, 2010 by Gunjan
The Reputation Institute of the UK asked residents of more than 30 countries rate their home country on the basis of “overall respect, trust, esteem, admiration and good feelings” and also to rate other countries on similar measures The “Reputation Gap” plots the difference between the two sets of scores – a crude measure of [...]
Posted on January 18th, 2010 by Gunjan
The production team for Eat, Pray, Love, the forthcoming Julia Roberts movie, erected a huge set to depict a bustling India market, complete with a traveling circus in Mirzapur, Haryana near New Delhi. More than 500 people were employed in the construction of the make-believe market. The movie is based on the #1 best selling [...]
Posted on January 13th, 2010 by Gunjan
In February 2009, The NYC Next Idea competition was announced by the city of New York, as part of a suite of initiatives dedicated to strengthening New York City ’s entrepreneurial community. Fifteen leading business and engineering universities from countries across Asia, Latin America, and Europe signed up to participate in NYC Next Idea 2009-2010, [...]
Posted on January 8th, 2010 by Gunjan
It’s been said that for every true statement about India, you can also make the opposite statement and it can also be true. For example, India is a poor country with 700 million citizens making less than $2 a day. But India is home to four of ten richest people in the world, per the [...]
Posted on January 8th, 2010 by Gunjan
The latest Global Relocation Report from Brookfield GRS shows that China is the top relocation destination, cited by 19% of respondents. This was followed by United States cited by 17% and India ranked third at 11%. But many such expatriate placements fail. China also had the highest falure rate for expatriates, an incredible 22%.. India [...]
Posted on January 4th, 2010 by Gunjan
In the recently published Hindustan Times-MaRS Consumer Satisfaction Survey covering 1,330 respondents across 10 Indian cities, Kingfisher Airlines barely edged past rival Jet Airways to the top position. In my experience, both now airlines offer excellent service despite challenging conditions in India. I have also had occasion to fly on another highly-rated carrier, Indigo Air, [...]
Posted on January 4th, 2010 by Gunjan
Tata Chemicals is challenging Unilever’s India unit for the world lowest cost home water purifier, based on a rice husk ash filter. With a starting retail price of $16 for the unit, it costs less than half of Hindustan Unilever‘s breakthrough PureIt unit which has been a runaway success in India with $40 million in [...]
Posted on January 3rd, 2010 by Gunjan
Sir Ben Kingsley, who played the the title role in 1982′s Oscar-winning Gandhi (and much less remembered role in the worst movie of the 21st Century so far, the Love Guru) is soon to be seen in a Bollywood movie, Teen Patti ( three cards, or three-card poker). Perci Trachtenberg (Sir Ben Kingsley) is world’s [...]
Posted on January 2nd, 2010 by Gunjan
A tablet device named Adam, designed by Notion Ink a startup, located in Hyderabad India, is capturing a tremendous amount of buzz in the lead up to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas next week. Based on Google’s Android operating system. Nvidia’s new Tegra chipset and the Pixel Qi new low-power display, the [...]
Posted on January 2nd, 2010 by Gunjan
Pop sensation Britney Spears is visiting “God’s Own Country“, also known as the state of Kerala on India’s southern Malabar coast for her New Year’s eve celebrations. Forbes’ Magazine 13th most powerful celebrity does not have a strong following in India but is reportedly recording a new album with Kerala dances as the backdrop. Kerla [...]
Posted on January 1st, 2010 by Gunjan
India’s factory output rose 10.3 percent in October from a year earlier as government stimulus measures and domestic demand pushed Asia’s third-largest economy into its 10th straight month of industrial expansion. The government also revised its number for September industrial output growth to 9.6 percent from 9.1 percent. The Expert expects India factory output to [...]
Posted on January 1st, 2010 by Gunjan
