Here’s why Mr. Modi will lose 2019

I’m not a political analyst. But I make my living working with data. I look for insights, and use them to create winning marketing strategies for my clients. Looking at the data points over past few years, I believe Mr Modi is set to lose the 2019 battle. For five reasons. Back in 2014, Modi […]

The Fine Art of Orchestrating Bluffs

Mr. Modi is at his best when speaking. He’s articulate. Persuasive. Satirical. Entertaining. It won’t be inappropriate to say that he spoke his way to the top job in the country in 2014. Other factors helped too. Gujarat model. Though people knew little about it, was an easy as Gujarat is among the more prosperous […]

Free LPG for poor – an opportunity lost

LPG hai, bimari nahi, says latest hoarding at Bandra in Mumbai. Mr. Modi’s flagship Ujjwala, or free LPG for poor women, was aimed at liberating them of polluting choolha. Raghav Bahl, Managing Editor of Quint, rates it as Modi government’s greatest achievement. I’d second him. But will give negative marks for implementation. While it may have […]

Sar Utha Ke Jiyo, Bina Karz Ke. That’s NYAY

The math doesn’t add up, economists state. Where will the money come from? ask the critics. It will have an adverse impact on labor participation, hence create scarcity of labor, says another expert. We need jobs, not doles, adds another. A guaranteed income of Rs.6000 a month is what has been promised. For each of […]

Why is India’s greatest salesman failing?

Shaadi wo ladoo hai jisne khaya wo pachhtaya, aur jisne nahin khaya, wo bhi pachhtaya. I heard this simile for the first time from my Hindi teacher in my high school. His name was Raj. And his style of teaching quite colorful, as he generously mixed text book reading with stories, anecdotes, proverbs and similes […]

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