Opinion: Why Mukesh Ambani Is Spinning Off Jio Financial Services Ltd.

Opinion: Why Mukesh Ambani Is Spinning Off Jio Financial Services Ltd.

Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Wednesday October 26, 2022

To record all the words ever spoken by humankind, five exabytes of storage would be enough. Indian tycoon Mukesh Ambani's telecom customers used up nearly six times as much data last quarter.

Opinion: India's Stocks Are Yet to Feel The Pinch Of Higher Rates

Opinion: India's Stocks Are Yet to Feel The Pinch Of Higher Rates

Andy Mukherjee, Bloomberg Opinion | Friday October 21, 2022

India's valuation gap over other emerging markets is an "eye-watering" 3 standard deviations higher than the historical average.

Opinion: Indian Tech Firms Have Bigger Problems Than The Fed

Opinion: Indian Tech Firms Have Bigger Problems Than The Fed

Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Tuesday October 11, 2022

In implementing new-age IT platforms, the Indian outsourcing players are lagging way behind the likes of Accenture Plc and Deloitte Consulting.

Opinion: India's Internet Bill Is Straight Out of Beijing's Playbook

Opinion: India's Internet Bill Is Straight Out of Beijing's Playbook

Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Friday September 30, 2022

One of the laws under which India governs its communications industry dates back to 1885 - when Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone was not even a decade old.

Opinion: Oops, Wrong Hyundai. India's Industrial Policy Misfires - Again

Opinion: Oops, Wrong Hyundai. India's Industrial Policy Misfires - Again

Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Wednesday September 28, 2022

It took a public notice from Hyundai Motor Co. - asserting that the successful bid by Hyundai Global Motors had nothing to do with it - for bureaucrats to realize that they had backed the wrong horse.

Opinion: The Publicity-Shy Funds Backing Gautam Adani's Massive Empire

Opinion: The Publicity-Shy Funds Backing Gautam Adani's Massive Empire

Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Friday September 23, 2022

Gautam Adani is worth nearly $145 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Surely that's a good reason for the market to know the major shareholders behind such a large fortune?

Opinion: Police Tactics Are Chilling India's Crypto Winter Further

Opinion: Police Tactics Are Chilling India's Crypto Winter Further

Andy Mukherjee, Bloomberg Opinion | Thursday August 11, 2022

If success has many fathers, then a crypto exchange in the eye of a money-laundering storm has become an orphan.

Opinion: As India Reconsiders Data Privacy Rules, What's At Stake

Opinion: As India Reconsiders Data Privacy Rules, What's At Stake

Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Tuesday August 09, 2022

After five years of negotiations involving the government, tech companies and civil society activists, the world's largest democracy is sending its debate on privacy back to the drawing board.

Opinion: How Indian Tutors Are Making Millions Off Anxiety

Opinion: How Indian Tutors Are Making Millions Off Anxiety

Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Tuesday July 19, 2022

Sixteen-year-olds going crazy over their favorite Bollywood actor is one thing, but teenagers behaving hysterically on seeing a science tutor on stage? That's the kind of superstardom that Alakh Pandey, the co-founder of Physics Wallah, has built up.

Opinion: GST, Historical Tax Reform, At 5 Years, Has Lost Its Way

Opinion: GST, Historical Tax Reform, At 5 Years, Has Lost Its Way

Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Thursday July 07, 2022

Five years ago, India's federal and state governments struck a historic deal. From July 1, 2017, a uniform tax on goods and services - marketed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as "One Nation, One Tax, One Market" - replaced a bewildering array of loc

Opinion: How Mukesh Ambani Will Split His Empire to Avoid Dad's Folly

Opinion: How Mukesh Ambani Will Split His Empire to Avoid Dad's Folly

Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Thursday June 30, 2022

Around this time 13 years ago, billionaire Mukesh Ambani and his younger brother, Anil, were living in the same Mumbai house with their mother while they were busy fighting each other in Indian courts over their father's empire.

Opinion: Why RBI Put A Stop To "Buy Now, Pay Later"

Opinion: Why RBI Put A Stop To "Buy Now, Pay Later"

Andy Mukherjee, Bloomberg Opinion | Tuesday June 28, 2022

It seems that India's central bank is no fan of "buy now, pay later." But then, the regulators irritation with this newish fad in consumer finance is wholly understandable.

Opinion: The Centuries-Old Financial System Better Than Reckless New DeFi

Opinion: The Centuries-Old Financial System Better Than Reckless New DeFi

Andy Mukherjee, Bloomberg Opinion | Tuesday June 21, 2022

In the history of dangerous naivety, the decentralized finance mania of 2021 will hold its own against the 2007 boom in collateralized debt obligations.

Opinion: Startup Led By Indian-Origin Ankiti Bose Turns Into Dumpster Fire

Opinion: Startup Led By Indian-Origin Ankiti Bose Turns Into Dumpster Fire

Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Monday June 20, 2022

Zilingo Pte was until recently a rising star in the world of fashion e-commerce, and its glamorous leader Ankiti Bose was a model young achiever.

Opinion: RBI Is Getting Its Way On Rates. But For How Long?

Opinion: RBI Is Getting Its Way On Rates. But For How Long?

Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Thursday June 09, 2022

Back in February, when India was still in denial about its brewing inflation challenge, economists at Nomura Holdings Inc. summarized the choices before the monetary authority into three neat boxes.