Category: New
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The UK-India partnership thrives on London’s power to raise green finance
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Vince Cable’s ambition to establish the global capital of green finance in London is just the kind of vision our Indian partners want to see from the UK’s political leaders. India – home to almost half of the world’s most-polluted cities – knows the environmental cost of its rapid economic…
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H1B visa troubles: Wake-up call for Indian IT sector
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India takes a tough stand on the Trump administration’s visa crackdown. It’s two steps forward and one step back – once again. We’re talking of Indo-US relations here and the rollercoaster it has been riding on since Donald Trump’s ascent to the White House. The latest irritant to mark the…
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Innovation in India: A work in progress
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India is in need of a cultural makeover and change of pace before it can become a global hub for innovation, writes India Inc. Founder & CEO Manoj Ladwa. On my first visit to Palo Alto this week, I was impressed by its fabled innovation eco-system. Palo Alto, arguably the main engine…
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Sorry critics, but the figures say you’re wrong about the Indian economy
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India Inc. Founder & CEO goes behind the headline data to highlight why economic growth is on a revival path. The problem with most economic reform measures is that the pain is front-loaded and the losers feel the pinch immediately but the gains are spread over many future quarters and…
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Growth rate dip a temporary blip for India
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Ignore the doom mongers, India will return to the high growth path by winter, writes India Inc. Founder & CEO Manoj Ladwa. There’s an old truism about India which holds that for everything that is true about this country, the exact opposite is also correct. This is true for the…
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Demonetisation a failure: Really?
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Lazy journalism has resulted in painting an incomplete picture of what demonetisation really means for the Indian economy, writes India Inc. Founder & CEO Manoj Ladwa. There is a large section in the Indian media (and I include the India correspondents of many western agencies and publications in this basket)…
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The Emergence of the “Supercrat”
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India’s Revenue Secretary, Dr Hasmukh Adhia, embodies the spirit of a new-age bureaucracy, writes India Inc. CEO Manoj Ladwa. Sardar Vallabbhai Patel, independent India’s first Home Minister, famously dubbed the bureaucracy as the “Steel frame of India’. It was, and is, India’s multi-layered bureaucracy that keeps the wheels of the…
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Can Modi cut the Gordian Knot of NPAs?
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The Indian government’s efforts to tackle non-performing assets (NPAs) are central to the growth agenda, writes India Inc. CEO Manoj Ladwa. It could, in times to come, rank as one of the Narendra Modi government’s boldest reform measures—and definitely as the one that exposes his government to the most damaging…
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Modi’s friendship with Netanyahu brings cheer to Indian farmers
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Prime Minister Modi’s historic visit to Israel has set the course for core areas of collaboration between the two countries, writes India Inc. CEO Manoj Ladwa. Historic, as we said last week, is a much misused word these days, but to describe Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s just concluded visit to…
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The race is on. Let’s make India and the UK a ‘Winning Partnership’
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The UK’s ‘transactional’ relationship with India has less value than it once did. We need a transformational relationship fit for the age of radical ideas, writes India Inc. CEO Manoj Ladwa. Timing is everything. As Prime Minister Theresa May and her team opened Brexit negotiations in Brussels, the London launch…