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A Moveable Feast: The bobble head boss By Roopen Roy Aug 05 2016 How easy it is to forget what goes up has to come down The two firms, Price Waterhouse and Lovelock & Lewes, which merged to form PwC India were born nearly 140 years ago in Calcutta. Both had a timid and mild bhadralok culture….
India’s role in 4th industrial epoch By Roopen Roy Apr 28 2015 Hannover has a green ‘forest’ in the middle of the city, the largest in Europe and twice the size of Central Park in New York. But this forest does not have wild animals, not lions for sure. It was, therefore, interesting to see the Indian…
Clarification: Bong is a complex term and does not necessarily refer to a person who speaks the language or embraces the culture. It is a bhadramanush associated with Bengal and can be of any religion or ethnic origin but has some connection by birth or domicile, by cultural affiliation or language or by sheer willingness to…
Speech to be delivered on May 8, 2012 at XLRIJamshedpur Reverend Father E. Abraham, Respected Dean, dignitaries on the dais, ladies and gentlemen and the Graduating class of the General Management Program 2012 and Executive Diploma Programs It is indeed a privilege and an honour to have the opportunity to come to XLRI and…
Roopen Roy (Roopen Roy is the Managing Director of Deloitte Consulting, India. Views are personal). Many policy thinkers in India are enamored by Western economic models. If we have to figure out intelligent strategies to lift 250 million Indians from abysmal poverty, let us accept that there are no proven Western models. Our…
Many policy thinkers in India are enamoured by western economic models. If we have to figure out intelligent strategies to lift 250 million Indians from abysmal poverty, let us accept that there are no pro ven western models. Our problem is daunting in scale and baffling in complexity. We need completely new and bold imagination…
Building smart cities the Indian way By Roopen Roy Jul 29 2014 Bloomberg Today more than half of the world’s population lives in cities. The crystal ball tells us that by 2050, only 14 per cent of the people in ‘have-more’ countries will live outside urban agglomerations and the number will be only 33 per cent in…
Should the Big Brother be watching you? Beware, big brother is watching you By Roopen Roy Jul 12 2011 The head of a Western nation, so the story goes, was on a state visit to the Soviet Union at the height of the cold war. As a mark of respect and honour, he and his wife were…
Long on the talk, a little short on the walk By Roopen Roy Feb 29 2016 The most disappointing feature of the Budget is the FM’s inability to bite the bullet of NPAs There is a lot of encouraging words and promises for the agricultural and rural sector, infrastructure, low-cost housing and the containment of fiscal deficit….
There is a firestorm raging in the country over allowing Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail. It is being contended that large format multi-brand retail a.k.a. LFMBR (apologies for the alphabet soup) will wipe out the local kirana shops and destroy the livelihood of millions of people. Excuse me! The LFMBR business model is…