On this episode, financial journalist Govindraj Ethiraj talks to Anuj Puri, Real Estate Entrepreneur and Chairman at ANAROCK Property Consultants Private Limited. Anuj has over 27 years of experience with expertise in planning, undertaking demand assessment studies and transaction services including marketing strategies based on technical real estate market analysis, feasibility studies, program requirement derivation and fund and investor sourcing. The company that he chairs, ANAROCK, has a radical and disruptive residential brokerage model which fully enables supply, demand and discovery through a digital platform, with transactions facilitated offline via highly-trained real estate experts. In this conversation you will learn about the current state of the real estate market in India, how the pandemic has impacted real estate, the current trends in supply and demand, the surprising formalisation of large parts of the industry, and more. For more of our coverage visit ⁠⁠⁠thecore.in⁠⁠⁠ Socials: ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Linkedin

On this episode, financial journalist Govindraj Ethiraj talks to Sunil Nair, CEO of Snowman Logistics Limited. With Snowman as India’s leading integrated temperature-controlled logistics service provider (specializing in providing warehousing, distribution, and other value-add services across the country), Sunil Nair's deep understanding of Supply Chain & Logistics across multiple sectors (including Pharma, Agri produce, Seafood & Meat, Dairy, Retail, QSR, FMCG and many more) has helped service brands such as Amul, Baskin Robbins, Kwality Walls and Vadilal in India. In this conversation you will gain a broad understanding of cold-chain logistics, including the effect of consumption patterns, the infrastructure involved, why some industries are migrating from non cold-chain to cold-chain (and some are not), how cold-chain affects price point and more. For more of our coverage visit ⁠⁠thecore.in⁠⁠ Socials: ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠Linkedin

On this episode, financial journalist Govindraj Ethiraj talks to Ajai Chowdhry, co-founder of HCL, and advisor to the Government’s India Semiconductor Mission. He has been an advisor to government committees since 1999 and has advocated for self-sufficiency in electronics. He chaired a Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MEITY) task force that made recommendations for India's electronics policy. He is a member of several committees and was conferred the Padma Bhushan in 2011. As Chairperson of NIFFT Ranchi, he transformed it into the National Institute of Advanced Manufacturing, driving Industry 4.0 innovations. Additionally, he helped create the Electronics Sector Skills Council of India (ESSCI) to prepare India's workforce for the future. In this conversation you will learn about the intricacies of the semiconductor ecosystem, the importance of semiconductors in daily life, the economic and strategic impact manufacturing semiconductors will have for India, the implications of manufacturing different sized chipsets, the government's role in manufacturing semiconductors, and more. For more of our coverage visit ⁠thecore.in⁠ Socials: ⁠Twitter⁠ | ⁠Instagram⁠ | ⁠Facebook⁠ | ⁠Linkedin

On this episode, financial journalist Govindraj Ethiraj talks to Arun Sundararajan, Harold Price Professor of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Technology, Operations and Statistics at New York University’s (NYU) Stern School of Business, an affiliated faculty member at many of NYU’s interdisciplinary research centers including the Center for Data Science, and the author of “The Sharing Economy.” In this conversation you will learn about some of the inner mechanics of how large language models are used in AI tools, and how this will have far-reaching impact on the job markets, Healthcare, financial planning, creative industries like visual art and music, intellectual property rights, disinformation, and more. For more of our coverage visit thecore.in Socials: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | Linkedin

Connecting The Dots, hosted by Govindraj Ethiraj, is a bi-weekly conversation show which picks micro or macro trends or trendlines with the objective of connecting a few related or seemingly unrelated aspects or dots into a larger picture within the business and financial ecosystem. Substantial numbers of investments are coming into India’s electronic manufacturing ecosystem as a consequence of it being driven out of China. On today’s episode of Connecting the Dots, Neil Shah, Vice President of Research at Counterpoint Technology Market Research, puts into perspective what this means for manufacturing in india in terms of logistics, scale, skills and the larger economy.

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Connecting The Dots, hosted by Govindraj Ethiraj, is a bi-weekly conversation show which picks micro or macro trends or trendlines with the objective of connecting a few related or seemingly unrelated aspects or dots into a larger picture within the business and financial ecosystem. You'll also hear news developments, exploring the way forward in terms of impact and insights which could convert to strategic understanding for business leaders, managers and entrepreneurs alike.

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