As an advertising professional who has been writing on brands as well as the economy, politics and business as well as culture on my blog, I thought I’d write about the state of the media around the world, as I see it today. I will not focus so much on the advertising aspect of media,… Continue reading The State of Media Brands in the World Today
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In line with the theme of innovation that my blog is celebrating this year, I had thought of how companies and brands can address global issues and build their brands at the same time, in an earlier post where I had shared my thoughts and ideas on Absolut Vodka. I had said that very few… Continue reading Brands Addressing Global Issues – Part 2
At a time when India seems to be scaling new heights at least in GDP rankings globally, there couldn’t have been a timelier book on India and its place in the world than The Golden Road. William Dalrymple’s latest book, The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World attempts to tell the story of… Continue reading Dalrymple’s Golden Road Dazzles, But Lacks Depth
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As I’d written in my Owleye column this month, there are plenty of global summits and conferences this summer and all the way up to the new year. It makes sense at a time of heightened conflicts and geopolitical tensions, not to mention wars. In a year where my blog is celebrating 25 years of… Continue reading Brands Addressing Global Issues – Part 1
The Trump administration just announced a set of new reciprocal tariff rates for more countries and has set a new deadline of August 1, 2025 for these to take effect. It’s still early days, and it’s hard to tell their effect on consumer prices, on trade, and on consumption and economic growth, both in the… Continue reading Have Non-Tariff Ticket, Will Travel
The idea for this blog post was prompted by a photograph that someone had shared on Blue Sky Social – where I have only just joined – of a McDonalds eatery being gobbled by a large medieval gate in some city in Estonia, I think. I shared the image post on LinkedIn and X as… Continue reading Why Cities Are Harbingers of Change
Reading HBR posts online on LinkedIn where I follow them, I was always quite disappointed by the kinds of subject matter and articles that were being shared. Being unemployed for decades now in India, I cannot afford to subscribe to the publication, so I browse and read the occasional free article whenever I find something… Continue reading HBR Book On Strategy Does It a Disservice
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Peripatetic Perch 