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Smartphone supremacy
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 22/04/2019
» Up until three years ago, Gaurav Singh Chauhan used to sell 15 or 20 Micromax mobile phones in a day. Now he considers himself lucky if he can sell one unit a month of the Indian-made handsets.
Fight to the finish
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 14/01/2019
» Jugal Kishore Vaishnave is dejected. A distributor of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) in Rajasthan, he's threatening to quit the business because his profit margins have shrunk dramatically since the arrival of e-commerce sites and big retail chains. The media business might offer a better chance to make some money, he says.
Unsocial media: religious insults spread online in India
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 20/11/2017
» Iqbal Jaildar has had his hands full in the last two months. The head of the panchayat (local council) in Bichhor, a village 90 kilometres south of Delhi, he has been busy defusing communal tension triggered by offensive social media posts by both Hindu and Muslim young people.
Journalists under increasing attack in India
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 30/10/2017
» Deeksha Sharma was scared and baffled at the same time when she received a death threat on her WhatsApp messaging account on Sept 16.
Tata in turmoil
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 31/10/2016
» The coup-like ouster of Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry and the subsequent slugfest between him and predecessor Ratan Tata has opened a huge can of worms in India.
India's 'Good Sense Tax'
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 15/08/2016
» Mangal Singh Rawal is finally seeing some light at the end of the dark tunnel that he and many other businessmen have been navigating for years.
Cash for coupling
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 11/07/2016
» Marriages are made in heaven and there is someone special for everyone. So they say.
Cram-school capital
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 06/06/2016
» Ask Aastik Himta why he's taking coaching classes for the Indian Institute of Technology examination and he offers a blank stare.
Alternate-day driving comes to choking Indian capital
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 28/12/2015
» New Delhi will greet the New Year with as many as 900,000 fewer private vehicles on its congested, smog-shrouded roads. The number could rise further now that the state government has decided to extend its alternate-day driving restrictions to vehicles entering the megalopolis of 25.8 million from outside.
Waste not
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 14/12/2015
» The world of Mohammad Khokun Hamid has rarely been much bigger than 10 square kilometres. The resident of a cramped room in a slum that has arisen on cemetery land near the famous Hazrat Nizamuddin shrine in South Delhi, Mr Hamid is one of thousands of rag pickers and waste collectors in the Indian capital.