Alam Srinivas is a business journalist with almost four decades of experience and has written for the Times of India, bbc.com, India Today, Outlook, and San Jose Mercury News. He has written Storms in the Sea Wind, IPL and Inside Story, Women of Vision (Nine Business Leaders in Conversation with Alam Srinivas),Cricket Czars: Two Men Who Changed the Gentleman's Game, The Indian Consumer: One Billion Myths, One Billion Realities . He can be reached at editor@gfilesindia.com
59 Articles0 CommentsTWENTY-FIVE years ago, when Palaniappan Chidambaram was the Commerce Minister, he claimed that he was the bigger and better reformer than Manmohan Singh,...
ByAlam SrinivasOctober 14, 2017PRIVACY invades almost aspect of our lives. Sadly, slowly but surely, privacy is vanishing out of our lives. You switch on the phone,...
ByAlam SrinivasAugust 19, 2017IN 2016-17, over a billion people rode the Delhi Metro. On some days, over 3.5 million boarded the trains. Based on similar high...
ByAlam SrinivasAugust 19, 2017AVENUE Supermarts’ business model seems to be on a shaky ground by its own admission; there seems to be some form of a...
ByAlam SrinivasJuly 9, 2017IT started with a lack of clarity. And it may end up with more confusion. The government’s aim to effect mega-mergers between State-owned...
ByAlam SrinivasJuly 9, 2017It’s a story that has all the classic and inherent ingredients of a mega scandal—a realtor operating in India, where most real estate...
ByAlam SrinivasMay 10, 2017IT was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of...
ByAlam SrinivasApril 11, 2017IT is indeed ironical. The job reservation policies, especially in the government and public sector jobs, has worked so well that the erstwhile...
ByAlam SrinivasMarch 9, 2017IT’S ironical that a book that aims to create a myth and living legend of an individual itself has seedlings, even large plants,...
ByAlam SrinivasFebruary 14, 2017ROME wasn’t built in months. Nor was it destroyed in months. The same is the case with the spat between Ratan Tata, interim...
ByAlam SrinivasJanuary 14, 2017