The Indian budget every year has always been an eagerly awaited event. For many decades, the best minds in economics, finance, tax, business and industry throng the media house to analyze the provisions shared by the Financial Minister.
Sometimes major events completely disconnected may be data points for the plans of the different powers around the world. The challenge is to discern what purpose they serve? More critically, what are we moving towards?
When the US Ambassador threatened India's "Strategic Autonomy" policy over India's friendship with Russia - much more than meets the eye was at stake. Let us unpack how the Ukraine war has fundamentally changed the US and the world. And why are we here anyway?
The Indian subscribers on WhatsApp have reached 400 million. This is WhatsApps largest market by far. Amitabh Kant, CEO of NITI Aayog announced this in a press conference held by WhatsApp in New Delhi on July 25th. Subsequently, WhatsApp spokesperson confirmed this as well.
Just two years back, WhatsApp had hit 200 million subscribers.
Now, all this comes with a price. We came to know last year how the Indian subscribers were clogging the the WhatsApp servers by sending millions of “Good Morning” messages with nice pictures to friends and family!
And it is not just the WhatsApp servers, but also people’s phones that run out of space very soon.
One in three smartphone users in India run out of space daily, according to a survey by data-storage firm Western Digital Corp., compared with one in 10 in the US. (source)
According to a research firm, Counterpoint, India has 450 million users. Remember, that the total US population is 350 million!
Now, in fact many businesses are being built on WhatsApp and they are growing really fast. For example, Meesho is a social ecommerce platform completely built using WHatsApp as its base.
The smartphone growth is poised to bring about an amazing revolution in India in the future.
The Indian budget every year has always been an eagerly awaited event. For many decades, the best minds in economics, finance, tax, business and industry throng the media house to analyze the provisions shared by the Financial Minister.
When the US Ambassador threatened India's "Strategic Autonomy" policy over India's friendship with Russia - much more than meets the eye was at stake. Let us unpack how the Ukraine war has fundamentally changed the US and the world. And why are we here anyway?
This visit of India left me with many questions. Many observations and inputs from different people and sections. Food for thought that I have tried to contemplate on and make sense of. Sharing all that with you.
When you analyze the last 60 years of the economic miracles of Singapore, South Korea and Malaysia versus the continued impoverished Indian economy, you get very interesting lessons. Can Indians have the wherewithal in them to do in one generation so that the coming generations may rise?
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