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Strategic Intent
Capping the moonlighting volcano
There’s simmering tension over moonlighting, hybrid work and a breakdown of old workplace norms. Will this erupt into a full-fledged crisis? Or will better sense eventually prevail?
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A battle of unequals
As the Adani group pushes through the doors at NDTV, owners Prannoy and Radhika Roy find themselves with their backs to the wall. What are their options?
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Gautam Adani’s midnight raid at NDTV—a developing story
The aggressive billionaire’s dramatic attempt to take over one of the country’s best known media firms has set the cat among the pigeons. Will Prannoy and Radhika Roy stand their ground? Here are the possible scenarios. (This is a developing story and we are updating it as things unfold. The latest update was on 31 August, 2022)
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The hare and the tortoise
The R K Swamy Hansa group remains the last man standing, even as almost all the large homegrown advertising-led groups have thrown in the towel. How did the Swamy brothers, Srinivasan and Shekar, pull it off?
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Agnipath and a second career for veterans
The raging controversy around the Agnipath scheme has placed the spotlight on an issue that has been pushed under the carpet for too long.
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Bollywood’s wakeup call
Why the Hindi film industry is struggling to emerge out of its pandemic-induced coma
Strategic Intent
Plugging the infra gaps
The Gati Shakti Mission has been billed as a major transformational project. But is it merely a delayed attempt at better housekeeping?
Strategic Intent
Rushing back to office
There are signs of growing impatience among CEOs to abandon the hybrid work experiment and return to office permanently. What’s driving this sentiment? And could it scupper change?
A Letter from London
The dark side of the China Story
From his perch in The City, a leading strategic analyst who prefers the pen name Samuel Pepys, looks at what’s shifting at the intersection of business, markets, economy and society. In this letter: a global supply crunch; an imploding credit-driven economic model; a new economic playbook
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