Beyond the metros: Why Tier 2 cities are rivalling big cities in retail growth

India’s retail mall segment is undergoing a structural shift, with Tier 2 cities rapidly emerging as strong performers, even as metros retain the majority of the organised shopping centre stock. Powered by rising incomes and aspirational spending, cities such as Chandigarh, Kochi, Visakhapatnam, and Surat are now seeing rentals that rival those of several Tier […]

View | First Air India, now IndiGo — India’s aviation crisis is all about ‘too big to tame’

India’s latest aviation fiasco—about 3,000 flights cancelled since last week—has exposed the ill effects of leaving two-thirds of a fast-growing market in the hands of a single player and allowing it to become not just too big to fail, but also too big to tame. A passenger waits outside the IndiGo Airlines kiosk at the […]