Raymond Lifestyle Listing: Will The Big Bet On Indian Weddings Pay Off?

Gautam Singhania, chairman and managing director, Raymond Group. Image: INDRANIL MUKHERJEE / AFP With the listing of shares of Raymond Lifestyle as a separate entity on the stock markets, the 100-year-old parent company is getting a fresh coat of paint, splitting its focus into three major businesses: Apparel, real estate and engineering. The demerger expected … Read more

India’s Beauty Industry Far From Skin Deep. What’s Driving The $34 Billion Ambition?

From left to right – Anchit Nayar, Executive Director and CEO, Nykaa Beauty, Falguni Nayar, Co-founder and CEO, Nykaa and Anil Kumar, Founder and CEO, Redseer Strategy Consultants unveil the first of its kind “Nykaa Beauty Trends Report” at the Nykaa Best in Beauty Summit India is the fastest growing BPC (beauty and personal care) … Read more

France Pilots School Mobile Phone Ban

Right now, pupils in French middle schools must turn off their phones. The experiment takes things further, requiring children to hand in their phones on arrival. Image: Dobrila Vignjevic/Getty Images Tens of thousands of pupils in France are going through a slightly different return to school this autumn, deprived of their mobile phones. At 180 … Read more

The Most Important Thing Is To Create Music From The Heart: Three-time Grammy Winner Ricky Kej

Ricky Kej, musician and environmentalist. Ricky Kej, a three-time Grammy Award winner, collaborated with Vedam Records to bring out his latest album Break of Dawn that released in August. The album features nine tracks composed by Kej, that “unclog their brain”. As a celebrated Indian music composer and environmentalist, Kej makes music with a message, … Read more

Generative AI Is Evolving Every Week, But The Adoption Is Happening At A Slower Rate: SymphonyAI’s Romesh Wadhwani

Romesh Wadhwani, chairman and founder of SAIGroup. Image: Timothy Archibald It’s an exciting time to be in AI (artificial intelligence), says Romesh Wadhwani, who has seen five generations of AI. The previous cycles were limited in capabilities. They were less flexible and agile, and the barriers to adoption at scale were high. On the contrary, … Read more