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Strategic counsel for over 27 years, with leading corporates across diverse sectors. Independent Director across multiple sectors. Advises organisations on the intersection of finance, digital, consumption economy, GEMZ (Gig Economy, Millennials, gen Z) & ESG. Coaches & mentors senior leaders. Active engagement across industry-growth policy conversations & public policy issues. Visiting faculty at various management schools and with regulatory learning centres. Prolific media columnist across topics he works with. He is also the Editor and co-author of ‘Time for Bharat’ (book on public governance). Visiting Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation. Posts all published work at https://srinath.blog
It’s some ‘flation’ for sure. And it’s hurting. Let us show some concern and talk of our economic issues in human speak
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Can ONDC be the next biggest digital change-agent to make an inclusive nation? It surely has all the right ingredients. It has the intent and the content. It importantly has the right context
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For the investors would need patience to shape the culturally relevant business ecosystem, and not be pressurised by the urgency of returns ‒ but also look at societal impact, and inclusive developmental agenda
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The results of those competitive exams could show them their place in the overall All-India standing amongst the other student communities. Welcome to the rather harsh reality
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Hierarchical prejudices around promoters’ age, legacy and vintage have to be unshackled. Over a point in time, regulatory outlook will play out how much of licensing-arbitrage banks will hold against FinTechs in this competitive landscape
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Democracy is not about multiparty elections alone. It is not just about local governmental governance. Democracy thrives when citizens can feel their own citizenry influence, in what they say as feedback and in what they don’t accept.
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It is natural to wonder whether the banks would pass on the rate hike to their customers. The answer is a high probable “yes”. But will they also, raise savings deposit interest rates? Probably not at the same levels as their lending rates, if at all they raise them
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India's trade with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which includes Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman and the UAE, was USD 87 billion in 2020-21
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In the larger macro context, some of these celebrated startups might have business hiccups and might even fail. It is okay to accept such failures, but not to forget to learn from those failures
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In its last released ‘State Finances 2021-22 report’ the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) noted that the urban local bodies and municipal corporations have “come under severe strain, forcing them to cut down expenditures and mobilise funding
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