At the start of the new year as we wait for corporate earnings season to begin again, I thought it might be worth spending some time thinking about where the Indian economy is headed in 2025 and beyond. We tend to focus on headline GDP growth of the economy all the time, but rarely look… Continue reading Challenges For the Indian Economy in 2025
Since my blog is celebrating 25 years of the 21st century this year, and since the first 25 years of this century and millennium have been mostly about some astounding innovations – and disruptions – I thought it is only appropriate that my first blog post of 2025 be on innovations. While many of us… Continue reading Will 2025 Be the Year for Innovations?
It's the last day of 2024 and I thought I must share with all readers of my blog, the new brand identity I have created for Peripatetic Perch, even though I am not a designer or art director. As my blog goes into its seventh year in 2025, my new blog logo features a new… Continue reading New Year, New Blog Logo!
The new Indian government took office six months ago, after a marathon parliament election in which the BJP-led NDA didn’t win a majority and had to form a coalition government. Since then, all of parliament proceedings have been stormed by the Adani controversy on which the opposition parties have been demanding a discussion. The Adani… Continue reading Little Work, Plenty of Hullabaloo
For the past few years since the Covid-19 pandemic, economic growth around the world has been subject to many constraints, including geopolitical ones, but most of all to cyclical and structural factors as well as to base effects. And every year of economic recovery since the pandemic, we have been speaking of it being the… Continue reading Navigating 2025 the Slowdown Year
It was reported at the start of this year that around half the world would be voting in elections around the world in 2024! While this is in itself an interesting fact, I think even more fascinating would be the long journey that democracy has made over the past many centuries and decades across many… Continue reading What Election Year 2024 Tells Us About the State of Democracy
The last time the world saw a tariff and trade war it was 2017, in Trump’s first term as President of the US when he took on the world’s second largest economy, China, in a tariff war. It ended with China too imposing retaliatory tariff increases on American imports and before we knew it, Europe… Continue reading The World Economy Bracing for Trump 2.0
As is usual in Goa, after the monsoon ends there is always plenty of autumn cleaning required in our flat to clear away the cobwebs, dust and fungus that settle during the rainy months. This time, in October, I was struck by thoughts and remembrances of my late mother, Shantha Sundaram, my aged father’s mother… Continue reading October, Autumn Cleaning and Remembrances
After Dubai, yet another oil rich country got a chance to host the UN Climate Change Summit or COP as it is known. I am not sure what the purpose of this is, but an obvious implication is that it would tend to limit conference discussions and deliberations, given that there would be resistance to… Continue reading Ideas for Garnering Private Climate Finance
Four of India’s states have just concluded their assembly elections in two instalments when they should have been held together in one shot. Besides the schedule reeking of unprofessional PR agency idiot bosses’ meddling and colluding with the central government, the media reporting too suffers from the same interference. Coming soon after the general elections… Continue reading Caste, Revdis and Sloganeering Once Again
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