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Picasso explains managing artist's legacy over appams and fish curry

If nostalgia is on the menu, it must make allowance for Pablo Picasso who Bernard remembers as 'tender and sweet'

Note ban impact behind us, on track to 12% growth: Muthoot Finance MD

Muthoot Finance Managing Director George Alexander Muthoot says the company is looking at options beyond gold loans

Auto Expo 2018: BMW Motorrad is betting on India for the long run

If customer demand on scooters is picking up, we will definitely bring them to India, says Timo Resch, Vice President, Sales and Marketing, BMW Motorrad

Take long-term view to serve the next billion: Amit Chandra to Indian firms

Chandra, Managing Director at Bain Capital Private Equity, says Tata and Reliance have followed that approach saying that they will take a long-term view and serve underserved customers

Our catalogue will be on Amazon by June: Shoppers Stop MD, Shrikhande

From this quarter, 15 of Shoppers Stop stores have started supplying products as part of omnichannel

Merger most likely by end of next financial year: CMD, National Insurance

In a Q&A, K Sanath Kumar says the challenge of technology and cultural convergence can be addressed

We are seeing a revival in consumer sentiment, says Westlife's Amit Jatia

Amit Jatia, vice-chairman, Westlife Development, tells Viveat Susan Pinto what has helped the firm post these numbers, and the way forward

We expect 20-25% of our sales to come from India by 2020: Salcomp Plc CEO

In a Q&A, Markku Hangasjärvi says says while the govt's policy measures are in the right direction, they aren't as expansive as they should be

Not many companies understand value of digital body language: Wendy Hogan

She says it is exciting to see the acceleration of India towards a digital economy

Our intent is to convert complainers into problem solvers: Desh Deshpande

Interview with venture capitalist, entrepreneur and philanthropist

We are not worried about competition, says BigBasket CEO Hari Menon

We're at a Rs 2 billion (gross merchandise value of products sold on its platform in a month) run rate

Birlasoft will be a formidable enterprise digital co after KPIT merger: CEO

If you define the different constituents of digital technologies, which include analytics, cloud, Big Data and all, we derive 30-35 of our revenue from these segments put together: Anjan Lahiri

Women can add a lot of value to business of advertising: Srija Chatterjee

In a Q&A, the MD of Publicis Worldwide highlights her priorities for the agency besides speaking about gender diversity in advertising

Our upskilling programme will cover 80% of staff by year-end: Gurnani, Bhat

"There is no pattern here. Our focus is on digital technologies and change. There are different levels of readiness from different markets towards such change"

We offer every consumer 'meri waali chai': Chaayos CEO Nitin Saluja

Our starting point was to figure out what kind of tea the country drinks, says Nitin Saluja

New H1B reform Bill discriminates against Indian IT firms: Chandrashekhar

The Bill, which has support of Microsoft and Facebook, if passed in the current format discriminates against Indian information technology (IT) service firms

Real estate transaction cost needs to be brought down: Abhishek Lodha

The managing director of Mumbai-based Lodha Developers says it is a misnomer that real estate market is depressed; only the buyers are now shifting more towards quality homes

We are approaching the US market very systematically: Wipro president & COO

Reskilling and acquiring newer skillsets is helping us to cater to all sorts of opportunities, says Wipro's Bhanumurthy B M

ONGC deal will benefit in terms of crude procurement, says HPCL CMD

The deal will be a substantial gain for both the companies in the petrochemical portfolio, says M K Surana

A creative person is not in control of his urges to paint: Satish Gujral

Gujral also feels that his life has been 'full of incidents' - many of them determining the curves and turns that his career has taken over time