Gunjan Bagla

This weekin Mumbai, India, President and Chief Executive Officer of Westinghouse Electric Company Aris S Candris and Chairman and Managing Director of NPCIL S K Jain signed a memorandum of understanding to begin discussions on the sale of several AP1000 nuclear reactors...

Subject to Senate confirmation, former Congressman TIm Roemer, will become President Obama’s ambassador to India. If confirmed, he will succeed David Mulford who returned to the US in February this year...

No, this is not a man bites dog story! The India market continues to grow and in certain sectors, it still makes sense to expand vigorously...

Proving to be the most flexible senior member of Dr. Manmohan Singh’s cabinet, Bengali lawyer Pranab Mukherjee will take charge of the Finance Ministry, handing over his prior role of Foreign Minister to SM Krishna. Mukherjee has also held the position of Defence Minister from 2004 to 2006...

On issues that matter to the the Administration, President Obama’s statements and positions have been nuanced, balanced and thoughtful...

Dr. Manmohan Singh of the Indian National Congress party was sworn in as India’s Prime Minister today, after the general election results of last week...

Delhi University, Pune University and five Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are listed among the Top 100 universities in Asia as ranked by the latest QS Survey. The IITs are Bombay, Kanpur, Delhi, Madras and Roorkee...

One of the most luxurious hotels in central New Delhi is the The Imperial. Richard Branson had just pitched Virgin Media in the side lawn the previous night. Dr. Susan Hockfeld, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was visiting along with a bevy of her top Deans...

When I was a student at IIT Kanpur in the 1970’s an articulate and eloquent young man from St Stephen’s College in Delhi won every debating contest at our annual Cultural Festival...

The Chief Minister of India’s most populous state, Ms. Mayawati Kumari was on a roll for the last several years. The 53-year old was feaured on Forbes’ 100 Most Powerful Women list and India’s national media began mentioning her name as a future candidate for Prime Minister...

Besides Gujarat, another business-friendly venue in recent years has been the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. The twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderad are home to India’s pharmaceutical giants such as Dr...

In my book, Doing Business in 21st Century India, I highlighted how media mogul Rupert Murdoch (CEO of News Corp) extolled India over China, even though he’s married to a Chinese woman who runs his China operations. I also pointed out how India, unlike China, does not censor American media...

Does the offshoring and outsourcing of Information Technology and related skills hurt America? How much does it hurt. I just finished reading an editorial comment in Information Week magazine from Bob Evans, Senior VP and Director of their Global CIO unit...

Business Week just published its list of India’s 50 most powerful people . You may be surprised how many of them have strong links to the West, most often to the United States...

The India expert normally doesn’t write about Indian-Americans. Our focus is looking at India from the outside and helping the world deal with India...

According to Business Week’s April 2009 report on the 50 most innovative companies on the planet, Apple, Google and Toyota lead in innovation. The United States dominates the list with half of the 50 companies...

India is the largest borrower from both the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank and has always made good on its loan payments. The moneys are used for mega-development projects, usually around infrasctructure...

For Western companies, it was conventional wisdom that you located your Asia-Pacific office in either Hong Kong or Singapore. Both cities offer modern amenities for expatriates and both have a cosmopolitan air about them. But the world has changed...

Tata Motors began taking orders for its new Nano car on April 1st. It sells for $2050, no joke. Over 300,000 Indian have visited Tata showrooms in the last 10 days. For most buyers the vehicle is an upgrade from a motorcycle or motorized scooter...

While the late George Harrison was probably the biggest fan of Indian yoga, the Beatles as a group were quite influential in bring awareness of meditation and of India to the west. Their joint concerts with sitar maestro Ravi Shankar in the 1960s are remembered by many...

According to Mercer two India cities are among the ten most expensive locations for expatriates. Remember, we are not talking about the average cost of living for local residents, or even the cost of living for upper income Indians...

My book, Doing Business in 21st Century India, was released as a hardback, audio book and Kindle edition last summer. Today they have released it on Apple ITunes. You can get to it at itunes.com/gunjanbagla or you can try playing the sample MP3 file Doing Business in 21st Century India

When a Pantaloons store opened at the Rave mall in native city of Kanpur, I was intrigued. It was the first Western-style retail store, selling clothing in this instance. Upon some research I found that it was run by Kishore Bayani’s Futures Group...

When Britain ruled the world, its astronomer drew the Prime Meridian, 0 degrees longitude through the observatory at Greenwich. The French did their part in defining metric standards...

The Caltech-MIT Enterprise Forum recently asked me to moderate a discussion on India as a market and as an investor in the United States. You can read the report about it on the India West website. The reporter picked up on a point that that I often emphasize with clients...

If you travel to north India in March, look up your calendar for the date of the full moon or for the Jewish festival of Purim. That generally coincides with the festival of Holi, celebrate over two days. The first night is a bonfire to mark the death of the demoness Holika. On the morning [...]

In this global downturn, more attention is turning to India as a market and as a resource. I see that every day in my consulting practice at Amritt, Inc. But The Economist turned to India to start its talk about Entrepreneurship during the downturn...

India’s Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRAI) has lowered domestic call termination fees from 0.6 cents per minute to 0.4 cents per minute. This is the fee charged to a cellular carrier when a call terminates on someone else’s network within India...

India’s ruling coalition government has paid several hundred thousand dollars to acquire the right to use the Oscar-winning Jai Ho song from Slumdog Millionaire as part of its election advertising...

43 million new voters are expected to swell the electoral rolls to as many as 714 million citizens next month India, the world’s largest democracy goes to general parliamentary elections starting Aptil 16th...

One of my college friends from India lives in California and years ago, started a magazine for Gays and Lesbians from India and South Asia, called Trikone...

So far, I haven’t written about the November terrorist attacks on Mumbai on this blog. But I was active in other ways. Fox Business TV interviewed me on their first “Money with Breakfast” show on the Monday after and the Hollywood Reporter carried another interview with me...

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into the United States dropped by 5.5 % in 2008 compared to the previous year. In China FDI rose by 10.7% in 2008. An article in the Economist today show that Brazil and Russia had increases of 17.5% and 20.5 percent respectively...

At the Grammy Awards this year, much attention was focussed on Sri Lankan born British singer, MIA, who performed despite being nine months pregnant. MIA is also featured in SlumDog Millionaire. But another important celebrity with South Asian connections was among the winners...

At the Grammy Awards this year, much attention was focussed on Sri Lankan born British singer, MIA, who performed despite being nine months pregnant. MIA is also featured in SlumDog Millionaire. But another important celebrity with South Asian connections was among the winners...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, chooses to visit Asia for her first foreign trip. Not Canada, the neighbor to the north. Not Mehico the other member of NAFTA. Not the staunch European allies in Nato in Europe. Hillary’s first visit is to Japan, Indonesia, South Korea and China...

While there is a global recession and crisis, India is one of the few countries that continues to grow. Most of the current growth is driven by domestic factors in India, not by exports. Finance-dependent industries such as automobiles and real estate have slowed...

I write for Business Week from time to time and this week, Dr. Atul Goel and I wrote a piece entitled: Innovation from India, the next Big Wave. It took them some time to publish the piece, but in many ways it is even more relevant now than when we first wrote it, given the [...]