Category Archive for ‘Reputation’

This morning began like any other lazy Sunday morning. Reading one article in a newspaper with my morning cuppa, I got interested to diving  deeper for my knowledge on Internet. I soon realized that the iceberg that is visible is 400 – 500 times bigger beneath. Call it the dark underbelly of Internet or more popularly known as Deep Web or Dark Web. It is well encrypted, out of bounds to the search engines, one can hide one’s identity and no one can find the location. All kinds of transactions happen here,  including drugs, guns, child pornography and things worse than that. Shudder. [Read More…]

Phew! March is behind us. The market players must be breathing easy now. With 27 SME IPOs and 9 bigger ones, it was a busy period for all players of Primary Market in Indian stock exchanges. This rush happened despite the secondary market remaining rather subdued throughout the month caused by domestic and global headwinds. [Read More…]

It is in a mess and the guy suffering most has not done anything wrong. He/she seems to be in a proverbial situation of getting punished only because some from his clan have resorted to wrong doing. The difficult situation for India Inc after recent scams is sad. True, the system needs a clean up considering that the last two year’s NPAs among lending to large Indian corporates has increased significantly from 7.9% to 16% and MSME sector increased from 8% to 11%. It is relevant to point out that NPAs have caused largely due to connivance of bad apples among lenders with those taking loans. The incident of bad loans continues to higher among large borrowers. [Read More…]

“Love it or hate it, the contradictions will eventually make you weep.” An article in HBR, about the inherent contradictions of India,once concluded with this sentence. How true.

India has learnt to thrive on her contradictions. The contradictions have been as old has modern India herself. Contradictions are everywhere. Religious, social, cultural, economic. Obscene level of wealth in the middle of abject poverty, extremely high rate of savings cohabitating with poor infrastructure of health and education, etc. [Read More…]

The month of March began with Holi and promises to be full of vibrant colors throughout the month in India.

For starters, the North East India is splattered with Saffron politically. For women across the world, the International Day of Women on March 08 will be symbolised with Pink with society trying hard to enhance awareness towards breast cancer. For businesses, the end of financial year will have black or red as each business will be striving to meet targets and increase profits and minimise losses. The bankruptcy code, the recent scams, the mood in stock markets, LTCG, impact of other policy changes announced in Union Budget, etc. must be playing on minds of business leaders. [Read More…]