Category: Articles
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Time to put real thrust behind India’s soft power
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India’s cultural diplomacy is entrenched in ‘babudom’. It must urgently get some real teeth and direction to reflect the aspirations of a new India, writes India Inc. CEO Manoj Ladwa. Most Indians still don’t know much about Brazil beyond the facts that it is a fellow BRICS nation and the…
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De-Mon to Re-Mon: Economists are underestimating India's growth trajectory
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The clean-up of the system as a result of demonetisation will ultimately increase the size of the Indian economy, writes India Inc. CEO Manoj Ladwa. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Urjit Patel is known to weigh his words very carefully before speaking. So, when he says the pace of…
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New globalisation paradigm in the offing
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Outbound FDI from India will increasingly be driven by a need to fill knowledge and product gaps aimed at the domestic market. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has greased the wheels of the investment cycle with allocations of almost $90 billion for building roads, railway infrastructure, inland waterways, ports, airports and…
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Stop tilting at windmills, Mr Trump & Co.
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Donald Trump and his fellow travellers in Europe are doing their countries a disservice by recklessly pulling up the drawbridge on immigration, writes India Inc. CEO Manoj Ladwa. Everyone knows that whenever their fortresses and castles came under siege, kings of old would pass the order to pull up the…
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India's "Clean-Up" Budget: Five top takeaways for foreign investors
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Digitisation and a crackdown on bureaucracy and black money are among the many 2017 Budget highlights the global community can cheer about, writes India Inc. CEO Manoj Ladwa. It took some deft tightrope walking, but Indian finance minister Arun Jaitley kept his promise and delivered a growth-oriented Budget that pleased…
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Modi's approach to the Arab 'problem' contrasts to Trump's bluster
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As isolationist tendencies gather momentum in the West, India as a liberal democracy ready to do business can offer a template for a better world order, writes India Inc. CEO Manoj Ladwa. The dynamics shaping the new world order are not new. Now, as at almost any other time in…
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Trumpeting Brexit
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India will have to be careful the tide of anti-globalisation does not derail its own march to economic growth, writes India Inc. CEO Manoj Ladwa. Two events, unrelated at some levels, but intrinsically connected to the world’s – and India’s – continuing economic prosperity are unfolding simultaneously on two sides…
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Can demonetisation deliver votes?
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Good economics has given rich political returns over the last decade. Will the trend hold in 2017? In India, conventional wisdom had it, for decades, that good economics makes for bad politics. Some politicians still think caste, religion and populism are more important factors than economic growth. It is probably…
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Gujarat – India's Laboratory of Development
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Gujarat is a laboratory of a development model that is uniquely home-grown, writes India Inc. Founder & CEO Manoj Ladwa. A lot has been written and even more spoken of the Gujarat Model of Development that has been praised the world over, including by the United Nations. But in India,…
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Will the emergence of a 'New Delhi Consensus' be the big new idea of 2017?
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Manoj Ladwa, founder and CEO of India Inc. argues that the world is in need of some new big ideas, and Modi’s guiding ideals of Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas and Antyodaya may well be the answer. “The world today is wild with the delirium of hatred, the conflicts are cruel…