While the $150 billion Indian IT industry has gone into turmoil owing to creeping automation, market leader Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has been silently recalibrating…
EDUCATION DISRUPTED
Good monsoons are a boon for India’s farmers but a curse for their school-going children
The monsoon rains are a big deal in India. Everyone from the farmer to the stockbroker tracks the rain. The former because the sowing pattern…
WORLD LOVE
Charted: Foreigners trust India’s economy more than Indians themselves do
Of late, foreign investors have shown far more confidence in the Indian economy than Indians themselves have. Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) now own over 50%…
DO IT RIGHT
The real problem with India’s jobs data is that they hide more than they reveal
Employment data in India have rarely been robust or foolproof. Measures of employment are released sporadically and exclude a number of sectors, notably the informal…
DON'T CELEBRATE YET
In agrarian India, jobs are moving outside farms but that’s not a great sign
Farm jobs in Asia’s third-largest economy are moving out to other sectors. Between 2011 and 2015, agricultural employment fell by 26 million, a new study…
QUICK FIX
All the losers in the great Indian game of farm-loan waivers
India’s agrarian heartland is in deep distress and the farmers are up in arms. In early June, Maharashtra witnessed massive protests by the state’s 13.6…
THE BOTS ARE COMING
The decline of the fuddy-duddy Indian manager
The Indian manager’s magic is slowly waning. Earlier in June, Tata Motors, India’s largest auto company (by revenue), took a call to do away with…
TBH
An SEC filing confirms Trump as an official threat to India’s IT industry
What was at first only expressed by experts and analysts has finally come from the horse’s mouth: Donald Trump is bad for business, according to…
SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET
Uber has fired a top executive suspected of misconduct in an India rape investigation
A top executive at Uber’s Asia business has been fired because he mishandled the proceedings in a 2014 rape case in India, according to two…
EVERYONE WILL SUFFER
India’s IT slowdown has started hitting the pay cheques of its top bosses
As India’s $150-billion information technology (IT) industry grapples with slowing revenue growth and massive layoffs, its executives are also feeling the heat. The annual reports…
KEEP CALM
“Shallow and impulsive”: Doomsday warnings about jobs in India are misguided, for now
Automation and protectionist policies around the globe are resulting in job losses, hitting Indian employees hard. In India’s information technology (IT) sector, thousands have been…
GETTING REAL
India’s GDP growth slowed to 7.1% in the historic year of demonetisation
The data is in: While India remains one of the world’s fastest-growing major economies, the currency ban in November 2016 did take some steam out…
