Internet in India
Handmade paper was fashionable while I was growing up. Just recently I learnt in Sri Lanka about products being made out of Elephant dung. The Pinnawale elephant orphanage in Sri Lanka is very similar but better than what we see in the Dubare elephant camp in Coorg. A couple of shops in Pinnawale (Sri Lanka) were selling products made out of … [Read more] about Handmade paper is passe, go for Elephant Poopaper!
Last year Mint had carried an article about magazines in India planning on Indian language editions in order to increase their reach. Kind of late in publishing the summary of that article [Niche English magazines plan vernacular editions - no longer available on livemint.com] but better late than never, Magazines Hello!, Lonely Planet, Better … [Read more] about Marketsize of magazines in India
Today's Economic Times (July 29-Aug 4, 2012) covered about footwear market in India. Some highlights Total market size of footwear industry in India is Rs 26,300 crore, to grow to Rs 38,700 crore by 2015. Luxury shoes at Rs 400 crore. India produces 300 crore pairs of footwear annually, 15% of annual global footwear production. Urban … [Read more] about Marketsize of shoes in India, some sole searching
A few days ago Times of India carried an article comparing the prices of books across 3 leading online bookstores. While Flipkart clearly is the winner when it comes to brand recall they lately are being scrutinized heavily in the media. The article was about Flipkart raising the order value from Rs 200 to Rs 300 to avail free shipping. I … [Read more] about Offline bookstores in India under threat from online bookstores?
Saturday editions of Mint and Sunday editions of the newly designed Economic Times (ya, ya, I am talking about ET) are a treat to read. Mint carries very in depth articles on Saturdays and I love the 'numbers oriented' articles in Sunday ET. Yesterday the center page article in Mint "Angerzi Nation (English Nation)" (article no longer available on … [Read more] about 11% of Indians claim to speak English, should the rest, the majority feel inferior? NO