When it takes a foreign newspaper to highlight an Indian issue, that’s a clear indication that things are not going well. This time around it was the WSJ that reported on the Indian retail revolution is not happening as expected. I’ll admit when I first came to India 3 years back, I thought [...]
Entries from August 2008
Rethinking Retail
August 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Telecom Daze
August 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment
The past week was filled with iPhone related news in the Indian press as the launch neared. The actual launch was a joke, the phone was stupidly priced at USD 824 for the 16GB iPhone 3G. 3G the biggest features was missing, why? Because India does not have 3G running on it’s network, and to [...]
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Mumbai Murciélago Mystery
August 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Spotting a Lamborghini LP640 in India is about as common as seeing Halley’s Comet. The LP640 is the big bull in the Lamborghini stable, in India the car goes for about Rs. 3 CR (about USD 750,000). So imagine how I felt when I heard one of these beauties got into a major accident in Bombay [...]