FUTURE OF ADVERTISING IN THE GEM & JEWELLERY INDUSTRY

    “Shining Stars.” The regional shine nationally: A peculiar phenomenon of Indian jewellery brands. We are a nation of many cultures, a nation globally unique owing to its diversity. Over the years as I travelled the length and the breadth of this country, I realized a new world meets you every few miles. From

Being Pops.

What the heck if pretty girls call me Pops? What’s the fuch if people think I was born in the same year as Zora Sehgal ? What the hell if people try to find similarities between Balki, and me thinking that I am his Pops? What the shet if Arvind Sharma’s driver introduces me as

Partnerships.

When I got married and moved to Bangalore my 70-year-old landlord and his 65-year-old wife were waiting for us at the bungalow we hired to bless us. My one week old wife was happy that a couple who were married for over 40 years are blessing us. Little we knew that the secret they were about

StorySelling.

Dream Merchants to storysellers, advertising creatives made the distance. As television gained popularity, it took little time to realize that viewers are interested in entertainment and not messages. This reinvention has its inspirations drawn from the human history, a simple insight of humans being exploited by religious preachers,  travellers, wise men and grand parents: People

“Bollywood the ugly caterpillar.”

Bollywood is going through a metamorphosis, what dominated in sixties was emotional melodramas and patriotic themes to seventies restlessness for social justices lead to the creation of “angry young-man” and eighties saw the emergence of romance  and optimism with new parallel cinema thrown in. Nineties saw the global settings of Bollywood reflecting the success of Indians abroad and Bollywood started setting stories rather than songs abroad. And