My Retail Journey

Even as the country celebrates Pongal, Makara Sankranthi, Lohri and so on, I cannot but reminisce and thank my stars for where I am, what I ...

When I first joined the retail Industry in 1997, scooping ice-cream as a part-time job for Baskin Robbins in Chennai, little did I imagine I...

We were 42 of us who arrived at Spencers Plaza at Chennai, one of the only few malls in India in 2001.  Most of them had come outside of Che...

On 13 Jan. 2021, I was driving back yet again to Chennai from Bangalore on my XUV500. Even as my playlist kept jumping from 90s Tamil film s...

I was taking an 8.30am flight that morning when News channels at the Chennai Airport flashed that Mr. VG Siddhartha had gone missing t...

I have just completed a 10-day vacation across North India. Being an avid traveler, my travel plans are usually frozen at least 2 months i...

When I was climbing up Vaishno Devi hills 5 years back late in the night, I saw to my pleasant surprise an outlet of Café Coffee Day midwa...

12 December is celebrated annually as Retail Employees Day, an occasion to thank the frontend staff who have taken up Retail as their pref...

Like so many other western concepts, Indians have been celebrating Friendship Day on the first Sunday of August for over 2 decades or more...

I have sang praises for the coffee consistency across India. I have shared so many anecdotes about my most favourite Indian Retail brand. ...