Category «Features»

India’s Emerging Retail Destinations: Pankaj Renjhen, Managing Director – Retail Services, Jones Lang LaSalle India

For retail players, stagnation and obsolescence are two sides of the same coin. Though expansion is often a challenge in a curtailed economic environment, it is nevertheless a necessary function for success. Retailers who wait too long to expand into new territories, or are content to stay where they are, are missing the growth wave …

Me, My Self & My Company – Chawm Ganguly

Pink Slips. As the India Happening story meets its umpteenth hurdle on the way to economic prosperity, the term is being thrown about with gay abandon. Die-hard believers say that except the outsourcing industry which has its fortunes tied to that of the United States, the threat will be negligible. While at the other end …

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Imagine there’s no heaven It’s easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people living for today Imagine there’s no countries It isn’t hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people living life in peace You, you may say  …

Precious Metals Report : Umesh Shanmugam

Precious metals continue to under-perform the broad market. This year’s heavy volume breakdown below key support has many investors and trader’s spooked creating to a steady stream of selling pressure for gold and silver and bullion stocks. While the technical charts are telling me prices are trying to bottom we must be willing to wait …

Bootlegging, Booby trapping and Betting – Chawm Ganguly

Gujarat is “officially” a dry state. Bootlegging is rampant, as is availability of spurious alcoholic drinks, with an entire parallel industry engaged in ensuring that the tipplers have their supply lines open. The seamy underbelly of society works overtime to ensure the maintenance of the exacting moral standards as postulated by the Mahatma with successive …