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Notes from both our practices, Corporate & Public Relations and Investor Relations & Financial Communications: practical lessons on media, reputation, crisis, results and listings, with commentary on business and public life since 2010.
Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam: A People’s President or a visionary???
Ever since Dr. Kalam, India’s 11th President passed away on the 27th of July 2015, there have been reams written on him. Both in the Virtual World that…
Liberalisation @25
There is nothing magical about 25 as a number. When you say 25, it does not have a ring of being a milestone. Strictly speaking, there is nothing…
Billion telecom subscribers feeding into Digital India
Last week, a release by India’s telecom regulator TRAI said that India’s telephone subscriber based had hit one billion phone lines. This includes a paltry 26 million landline…
Media Relations in India’s Smaller Towns and Cities
Language, culture and local nuance change every few kilometres in India. How to plan media relations for smaller towns and regional markets.
RaGa’s First TV Interview
What a Coup!!! Both for the PR agency which managed to convince Rahul Gandhi to do a one on one TV interview in front of the whole world…
AAP: The Road ahead…
Now that Arvind Kejriwal and his party have bitten the bullet and finally agreed to form government in Delhi, the question in everybody’s mind is what next? I…
Is Modi’s Campaign headed for a PR disaster?
Recent events have cast a shadow on the Modi juggernaut. First, repeated wrong quoting of facts and figures and then, the invasion of privacy of a Girl have…
Bad, Bad, Bad PR for Delhi…
PR is Public Relations and today, by any reckoning, the people’s perception of what Delhi has become is BAD… And why should it be so? The dastardly acts…
The conviction of Rajat Gupta and lessons for India
Rajat Gupta, the poster boy of Indian Professionals, was finally found to be Guilty of Insider Trading. Most of us in India are crying foul saying that this…
Downgrade of US – An opportunity for India???
The downgrade of US Sovereign rating from AAA to AA+ with further possibilities of downgrades marks a Titanic shift of equilibrium in the Global Economy. US long a…