Ranvir Nayar
Managing Director & Founder at Media India Group
India to be first to feel pinch of Taliban takeover of Afghanistan
August 15, 2021
How dramatically military and political fortunes can change within a week? And that too in a historically unstable region like Afghanistan where control over cities and even capital Kabul can change hands faster than a click on the internet. Till earlier this week, most analysts ...
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Weak governance continues to haunt Indian boardrooms
August 8, 2021
Earlier this week, Gautam Thapar, head of Avantha Group, a paper, power and real estate conglomerate, was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on charges of money laundering. Thapar was arrested following an alleged property transaction where Thapar’s firm ‘gifted’ INR 3...
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UNSDGs: Sustainable development remains a goal too far
July 13, 2021
In many ways it was heartening to see that the G7 Summit 2021, held in the United Kingdom on June 11-13, delved in detail on topics beyond business, trade, investment, strategy and power. For once, it took up issues that concern people and their well-being – health, poverty, ed...
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4 years of GST: Anything but a Good, Simple Tax
July 10, 2021
When the Narendra Modi government rushed with the implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST), within weeks of its passage in the Parliament, several economists and opposition leaders had cautioned the government against a hurried implementation, advocating that that more ...
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Stan Swamy: Killed by callousness
July 5, 2021
On Monday, doctors of Holy Family hospital in Mumbai where tribal rights activist and Jesuit priest Father Stan Swamy, one of the accused in the Bhima Koregaon case, was being treated, told the Mumbai High Court that he had suffered from a cardiac arrest early this morning and di...
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Better regulation needed to prevent marine disasters
June 29, 2021
After two weeks of on-board fire, the Singapore-registered container ship X-Press Pearl split into two earlier this month and sank just off the coast of Sri Lanka, while the other half followed suit soon afterwards. The cargo ship was carrying 1,486 containers, including 23 tonne...
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CCI probe against Amazon, Flipkart: An unfair practice?
June 23, 2021
After having dominated the rapidly growing ecommerce market in India for over five years, with a combined market share of over 90 pc in the USD 64 billion market in 2020, ecommerce giants Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart are facing multiple challenges that could see their market...
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Chasm between deeds & words: Modi’s speech on freedom & democracy at G7 Summit
June 15, 2021
On Sunday, participating in a session at the G7 Summit in Cornwall, United Kingdom, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke of democracy and freedom being part of Indian ethos. He also said that it was important to ensure that “cyberspace remains an avenue for advancing democ...
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With BigBasket, 1mg & CureFit in the bag, Tatas get serious about online shopping
June 11, 2021
Better late than never, seems to be the message emanating from Bombay House, the headquarter of the oldest and most diversified Indian conglomerate, the House of Tatas, as it finally ventured into online grocery, one of the fastest growing segments of the Indian economy. Last wee...
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Amidst pandemic mishandling, BJP faces internecine warfare
June 8, 2021
Though a humble pie is not his favourite dish, Prime Minister Narendra Modi must be feeling a bit relieved the day after he made his nth, and by far the most sensible, U-turn in the vaccination policy when he said that government would provide free vaccination for all Indians. Ce...
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World Environment Day: Business of lip service to environment
June 5, 2021
As you observe the World Environment Day, consider this. Each year, about 1.5 billion tyres are burnt around the world, leading to severe pollution. Nearly 91 pc of the 313 million tonnes of plastic produced in 2019 ended up in landfills or the ocean. In the same year, 53.6 milli...
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Second wave rattles Indian aviation to bones
June 1, 2021
On Sunday, the 11,675 employees of SpiceJet, India’s second-largest domestic carrier received an email informing them that their salary structures stood modified with immediate effect and that they would be paid only on the basis of number of hours worked. The airline blamed it...
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