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Shailesh Dobhal

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Why Dr Kurien Deserves The Bharat Ratna
Rediff.com23 Nov 2021

It is largely due to his vision and efforts that we have almost quadrupled our per...

Ambani's Target: China, not Adani
Rediff.com9 Jul 2021

Reliance's big-bang entry across the solar ecosystem will cut dependence on Chinese...

Connect the dots: Reliance, ITC, SoftBank
Rediff.com11 Aug 2020

Mukesh Ambani is stringing in new partnerships within the Reliance ecosystem with the...

Doorstep delivery is the biggest opportunity thrown open by COVID crisis
Rediff.com26 May 2020

Footfalls will invariably come down to a trickle even after lockdown restrictions go...

2019: Year of reality check
Rediff.com27 Dec 2019

From promoters losing their firms to consumers realising there are no free lunches,...

The year in four faces
Rediff.com29 Dec 2018

Urjit Patel, Binny Bansal, Nirav Modi and Rahul Gandhi personify the big trends that...

Why are so many Indian tycoons heading for the door?
Rediff.com1 Dec 2018

So what's up? Why are so many promoters heading for the door? It cannot be that all of...

Move over millennials! The Gen Zers are here
Rediff.com6 Sep 2018

They'll be increasingly define everything from products to politics of this country.

What do Mukesh Ambani and Ramdev have in common?
Rediff.com27 Jul 2018

Apply the 'insurgent' tests on what Ambani, Ramdev and Agarwal have done of late, and...

Why Baba Ramdev's Patanjali Ayurved is faltering
Rediff.com2 Jun 2018

Ramdev made nature-to-goodness products popular, and reaped benefits. Then he seemed to...

For some MNCs, India remains a big puzzle
Rediff.com26 Jan 2018

Why Danone, Philips, and to an extent Nestl and P&G remain under stress in India is a...

4 trends that shaped Indian industry in 2017
Rediff.com26 Dec 2017

From crisis leaders to future Goliaths, India Inc saw them all in 2017, says Shailesh...

Mukesh plans another disruption, RIL to enter e-commerce
Rediff.com30 Nov 2017

Make no mistake, Reliance's entry into Indian e-commerce cannot be taken lightly. It is...

The farmer in the farm loan waiver
Rediff.com28 Jul 2017

Beyond the macro data, there has been little enquiry into the profile of the indebted...

Wooing Middle-Income India
Rediff.com31 May 2017

From middle-class it is middle-income India, marketers are chasing for volumes. The 166...

Attack on the MNC Titans
Rediff.com5 May 2017

It's a post-truth world for multinational brands and businesses too.

Kingfisher: How can a bank lend crores against a brand?
Rediff.com6 Apr 2016

In the frenzy of the debate over whether Vijay Mallya is a 'defaulter' or an...

'A lot of the start-up stuff is inexperience coupled with arrogance'
Rediff.com23 Feb 2016

'All businesses have to be run for business, for profits on a sustainable basis. It may...

Why Baba Ramdev's anti-MNC strategy is self-destructive
Rediff.com10 Feb 2016

What does one make of Ramdev's recent allegations that MNCs are conspiring against...

Marketing lessons to learn from the odd-even experiment
Rediff.com13 Jan 2016

There was all-round scepticism about the workability of the scheme.