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
Offline bookstores in India under threat from online bookstores?
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?
11% of Indians claim to speak English, should the rest, the majority feel inferior? NO
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
Mozilla increases its focus on mobile, a message for everybody?
My email client is Mozilla Thunderbird. I have been using it pretty much from its launch about 8 years ago (launched on Dec 7, 2004). I have used various mail clients - Unix based Mail, mush and the first UI based client Eudora (as early as 1993). Eudora Email Client Steve Dorner developed the "wonderful" Eudora, even during those days it … [Read more] about Mozilla increases its focus on mobile, a message for everybody?
5 reasons why the future is regional language internet in India
I was asked by MXMIndia to give them 5 reasons why the future is regional language on the internet in India. The original text I sent them is below but the presentation in the published article was far better. Diversity of India is the main factor - Official data related to literacy is 74.04%. Now internet is used only by the upper middle … [Read more] about 5 reasons why the future is regional language internet in India