Anyone born after 1985 has grown up during the post-liberalisation honeymoon, when a rash of new banks, phone companies, airlines, care and durable goods manufacturers were wooing them or their parents for business. — Sucheta Dalal Copy Share Image
Globally, the toll-free numbers advertised by companies promise more than they deliver. And even websites are at pains to ensure that customers cannot get through to individuals, so there are no names, phone numbers or direct e-mail IDs to people… — Sucheta Dalal Copy Share Image
The message for the smart investor is to watch out. Do not get carried away with news reports and turn smart by pooling information… — Sucheta Dalal Copy Share Image
We are living in a globalised world and most of us are worried stiff about powerful interest groups steadily pushing India towards obscurantist and… — Sucheta Dalal Copy Share Image
We like to joke that India has sick companies but rich promoters. Yet, even after the bad loans and non-payment of dues have turned… — Sucheta Dalal Copy Share Image
I have missed meetings because a Speed Post from a government office reached after the meeting. But these are rare blips in a large… — Sucheta Dalal Copy Share Image
The paper's self-confessed love affair is with the advertiser and its flourishing bottomline gives it the power to desecrate editorial space and express the… — Sucheta Dalal Copy Share Image
Motherhood, pester power and emotional blackmail - Indian marketers have cottoned on to the fact that these three themes can sell just about anything… — Sucheta Dalal Copy Share Image
In the e-filing system, the accountant has the user identity and password of each company. This would potentially allow a rogue accountant to play… — Sucheta Dalal Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurial freedom and funding of potentially good businesses will certainly increase the number of wealthy Indians, create employment and have some cascading effect in… — Sucheta Dalal Copy Share Image
If India is notorious for never punishing scamsters and letting politicians get away with loot, rape, murder and worse, it is because they are… — Sucheta Dalal Copy Share Image
If you are a small investor, do take the basic precaution of going to a registered broker/sub-broker and getting receipts for your transactions. Or… — Sucheta Dalal Copy Share Image
For Indias 40 million taxpayers, the bulk of whom are salaried employees, forking out hefty service tax is a double whammy the government taxes… — Sucheta Dalal Copy Share Image
Putting an end to usurious rates is not going to be as simple as asking banks to lay down internal guidelines, policies and procedures. — Sucheta Dalal Copy Share Image
