This month saw the grand finalé of the G20 2023 summits under India’s presidency. New Delhi, India’s capital was suitably sanitized, beautified and locked down – for a 3-day holiday – so that leaders of the world’s most economically powerful countries as well as heads of multilateral institutions who had descended upon the city could… Continue reading G20 and BRICS, All in Expansion Mode
In my previous blog post, I had written about airlines as world connectors, providing an important economic and cultural link between countries and their people. And in it, I tried to create and recommend a new brand strategy for British Airways, already an image-builder for Britain as well as a world connector. I had envisaged… Continue reading Airlines as Image-Builders of Countries
We think of airlines as transportation, and also in the context of tourism, but rarely as providers of international connectivity, as vital as telecommunications and the internet. And even more rarely do we think of them as performing an important economic function, not even in today’s globalized and highly connected world. They are critical not… Continue reading Airlines as Connectors of the World
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Almost two years after the waning of the Covid pandemic and a year and a half of the conflict in Ukraine, the world is still fighting consumer price inflation in most parts of the world. That continues to be the biggest obstacle to growth and economic recovery, as consumers cut back their spending, especially on… Continue reading The Fractious State of the Global Economy
With all the excessive focus on technology in the times that we live in, it’s easy for companies to lose sight of brands, and consumer connection. These days particularly AI is the focus of so much attention, that I fear at least my industry of advertising and brand communications is getting carried away by all… Continue reading Technology or Brand, Which Comes First?
I am reading the second volume of the three-volume selection of Gandhi’s Moral and Political Writings, edited by Raghavan Iyer, that is part of my aged father’s library at home. I had read the first volume decades ago when I was visiting my parents from Delhi and thought it’s high time, I read the remaining… Continue reading Interpreting Mahatma Gandhi for a VUCA World
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During the past couple of weeks, the world has seen such extreme weather events that I wonder if it isn’t high time, we looked at the economic consequences of climate change more seriously. The news has been full of terrible natural disasters such as floods caused by extremely high rainfall, wildfires and even if we… Continue reading Can the Global Economy Weather Climate Change?
Prime Minister’s Narendra Modi’s state visit to the US last month resulted in a number of agreements between the two countries that signal a new level of cooperation and economic engagement. They are being dubbed part of an Indo-US Strategic Partnership. Ranging from sale of drones and manufacture of GE engines for Indian fighter jets… Continue reading Indo-US Partnership Not Exactly Strategic
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