Many of India’s artisanal pens are hand painted New York-based novelist Amitav Ghosh recently ordered a fountain pen from an artisanal maker in India. “The last time I looked at his online list, it said my order would be ready in 95 weeks,” the Indian-born author, most recently, of Gun […]
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Photos: An inside look at India’s digital fashion week amid the pandemic | Fashion
Not to miss the October deadline, the Fashion Design Council of India converted parts of its office building into a studio in a bustling industrial area of New Delhi. It created a stage, screens and bespoke lighting to facilitate shooting of fashion films and videos by the designers. It wasn’t […]
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HVS Monday Musings: Dynamic Pricing, Perishability, Decoupling in India’s Service Industry
We have heard these words often enough while discussing pricing, revenue management and demand management in our industry. We try and analyze our current approach and what the future may entail in case we wish our hotels to improve yields. In some of our previous articles we discussed the need […]
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India’s e-commerce battle: Flipkart and Amazon compete for record festive sales
But this year is particularly important as the world reels from economic fallout caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Millions of Indian shoppers are still wary of venturing into physical stores, and Meena expects online sales to grow more than 34% to $6.5 billion this year. “This is the time when […]