Published in the Financial Chronicle Smart idea? Tweak and implement By Roopen Roy Aug 04 2015 India is at the cusp of a startup boom. We have young entrepreneurs, a talented pool of IT resources and a large and growing domestic market. We need more job creators than job seekers. Therefore, India must become a beehive of…
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Financing at the Bottom of the Pyramid
By Roopen Roy Oct 12 2010 In the era of “inclusive growth”, financing the poor at the bottom of the pyramid is not just politically correct but also socially desirable. Of late, it has become economically viable and remarkably profitable. There is, however, a great deal of confusion about the term “micro-credit”. The business models that…
Fare forward! Bengal.
Roopen Roy (Roopen Roy is the Managing Director of Deloitte Consulting. Views expressed in this article are personal) “O voyagers, O seamen, You who came to port, and you whose bodies Will suffer the trial and judgement of the sea, Or whatever event, this is your real destination.’ So Krishna, as when he…
Entry of Foreign Universities
Turning the entry of foreign universities into an opportunity Roopen Roy On June 24, 2009 the Committee to Advise on Renovation and Rejuvenation of Higher Education (a.k.a. Yash Pal Committee) submitted its 94 page report to the the HRD Minister Shri Kapil Sibal. It prescribed caution about the entry of “foreign universities” with…
Employment generation is critical now
Budget should be an avenue to employment By Roopen Roy Feb 17 2015 The 2015 budget is round the corner. The expectations from finance minister Arun Jaitley are sky-high. He can meet all those expectations only if he is a deft combination of Santa Claus and Houdini. He will certainly meet some of our aspirations by being…
Dreams from my Stalin
Comrades X and Y are sleeping in their hotel room in Athens when Comrade Stalin appears smoking his pipe. ” Greetings Comrade Y ,” says Stalin,” What are you two doing here?” ” We are furthering the cause of world revolution to shake off the yoke of US imperialism. We are making a concrete analysis…
Dream Home? Or Nightmare?
A dream home can become a nightmare By Roopen Roy Mar 01 2016 The average Indian saves for a dream home. A large part of his lifetime income goes into the purchase of a roof over his head. The pradhan mantri awas yojana embodies the assurance of the government to address housing needs of all in a…
Dissent in the time of Internet
Roopen Roy (Views are personal) Authoritarian leaders in power have seldom lost an opportunity to stifle criticism, muzzle the press and stamp out opposition. Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake in 1600 after the Roman Inquisition found him guilty of heresy. One of his crimes: he had described the sun as a star….
Disruptive Technologies in Media
When innovators become creative with technology, they decisively disrupt existing paradigms. The entrenched, legacy players look like deer caught in the headlights.CNN was a good early example of a disruptive business model in media. It was fathered by online technologies and midwifed by the first Gulf War. Although, CNN was born earlier, it really took…
Disruptive Innovations and culture
Roopen Roy (Views expressed are personal) If I told you at the beginning of 2012 that a start-up company barely 16 months old with only 13 employees will be sold for $1 billion, you would have thought I was smoking something. Not really, we are talking about Instagram. It was founded in October 2010…