In the midst of the debilitating issue of economic slowdown in India, the country is looking for ways to reduce the fiscal deficit. Initiatives like GST, infrastructure development, reducing bureaucracy and regulation, simplifying the tax code, insolvency and IBC, and recent corporate tax rate cut targeted towards economic reform, allow India to improve its growth… Continue reading Simplification of Taxes: An essential step for India to be more business-friendly
The pursuit for fulfilment, success, and acknowledgment is life and inspiration is the fuel that powers us to move forward in the face of mounting challenges. Although inspiration can derive from anything in the world, it helps to find inspiration through human connection. It is the opportunity to relate our life experiences with others, that… Continue reading Inspirational lives of powerful individuals: Must-read biographies that inspire
What it is that one needs the most to thrive in today’s complex and continuously changing world? Education, opportunity, will, practicality, positivity? All of that, yes! But there is something one needs to bind all of these characteristics together. And it’s mental and physical fortitude. As an entrepreneur, I was constantly questioning myself at the… Continue reading Building Strength through Peace of Mind: Vipassana
We live in a country where Cricket is a religion and where a child learns the names of the cricket idols possibly before he/she knows names of everyone in the family. The magnitude of Indians’ love for cricket maybe as incomprehensible as its feverish intensity. Cricket also throws up many exciting lessons that every corporate… Continue reading 4 Leadership Lessons from Cricket World Cup
India’s new Finance Minister, Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman will be presenting her first and India’s 2019-20 budget on 5th July 2019. The interim budget, presented earlier this year, received appreciation for tax reductions, job creation and security, support to agriculture, support to MSMEs, aiding real estate, improving social infrastructure and bringing technology led governance aimed at… Continue reading Union Budget 2019-20: What Should be The Government’s Focus
Less than 90 days after becoming the Prime Minister in 2014, Shri Narendra Modi, in his address from the Red Fort on India’s 68th Independence Day, gave a clarion call for “Make in India” for the first time. From satellites to submarines, he said, “sell anywhere, but make in India”. We have got skill, talent,… Continue reading Solar Manufacturing under the Clouds- Need for Policy Overhaul
Businesses are living organisms given life by the team that tirelessly works towards a goal. With creative people being at the helm of such a venture, new changes in ideas, choices, and actions are given shape each day. This makes each business enterprise as complex as a life: growing, changing, learning and prospering. This characteristic… Continue reading Don’t Order, but Inspire
A blanket of CO2 has enveloped the world. And continues to deteriorate our climate. Frequency of heatwaves has increased, habitats have started to shift, spread of disease, raising sea levels and other not so subtle and often violent changes in the climate are now reality due to growing CO2 emission levels. Daily Global CO2 emission… Continue reading Sustainability and Climate Improvement needs Long Term Policies