Business Analyst Journal

Gandhi: An impossible possibility elucidates on the last days of Gandhi’s journey into the mortal world and the struggles that he encountered during these days. It explicates on Gandhi’s philosophical inclinations and how that inspired him in shaping the India of his dreams and underwent a gradual change when his end was approaching. It seeks to understand the dilemmas that Gandhi was caught in during his last days, his sorrows, both at a personal level and national level which brought a marked change in his state of mind and his desire to not live any longer.

Investing overseas is a potential channel to access new distribution networks, enhance knowledge base and technology and improve competitiveness which can be crucial for a country's growth and development. (Dunning and Lundan, 2008). Last few decades have witnessed a growing trend of overseas investments by the developing countries, including India. This paper presents a trends analysis for outward FDI flows from India, using RBI database for the period 2007-2019. Since RBI provides a disaggregated monthly data, it is aggregated to yearly observations for the purpose of trends analysis. A sectoral and destination specific trends analysis brings out some important facts about Indian OFDI. Service sector dominates the Ooutward FDI flows from India and the increasing presence of primary sector is noteworthy. Emergence of destinations such as Singapore, UAE, Russia, Mozambique as compared to the earlier popular destinations such as U.S and U.K, is another significant finding of the paper. However, because of COVID-19, FDI outflows have been adversely affected. This paper highlights some emerging trends in FDI outflows, for Asian economies, followed by a detailed case study on changes in Indian overseas investment due to the global pandemic. The study includes a monthly, like for like, comparison of the overall Indian overseas investment. It also presents a disaggregated sector-wise and destination-specific analysis of the trends in Indian OFDI flows for 2019 and 2020, for the months of March-August. Trend analysis and calculations based on the data, show a fall in OFDI flows with services and its sub-sectors hit hardest by the pandemic, followed by the manufacturing sector. Primary sector reported a growth driven mainly by investments from ONGC Videsh Ltd. and Oil India Ltd. Pattern of OFDI flows patterns changed in favor of destinations like Mozambique, British Virgin Islands and South Korea in 2020.

From bygone times, people have been postulating that optimism plays an imperative role in the success of a human being. Martin Seligman, the renowned Psychologist and Educator also emphasised on the theory of learned optimism. The fruits of optimistic thinking cannot be certainly denied, when one reads his decades of work on positive psychology. However, there is an existing intriguing yet contradictory theory on Optimism which makes it even more interesting and significant to read Tomas Chamorro work on Confidence and Competence.

The idea behind a bad bank is to clean the balance sheets of the banks and financial institutions of an economy. Currently, the Indian economy is under a lot of pressure because of increasing NPAs in the banking sector particularly from the time when RBI started conducting asset quality review of the banks to get a clearer picture of the situation and this problem is going to escalate further because of the surge in COVID 19 cases and lockdowns due to the pandemic. This pandemic hits the Indian economy very hard, leading to a fall in growth rate, increasing unemployment, and providing uncertainty to all the sectors of the economy. Amidst this pandemic, the government proposed to setup a 'Bad Bank' in Union Budget 2021-22 to handle the stress in the banking sector of our economy. This study explores the idea of a bad bank in the Indian economy and analyse the positive and negative implications of it and this paper also attempts to understand the evolution of the regulations related to ARCs and see the performance of the present ARCs in India by looking into its shareholding pattern, size of non performing assets (NPAs) acquisition, recoveries in comparison with other resolution options, etc. the study revealed that the acquisition and the rate of recoveries of ARCs are growing but it is not sufficient to handle the entire NPAs crisis.

The study of citizenship is not only topical but also a large, variegated, everchanging subject. The truth in this regard is that there is no consensus on the idea of citizenship in terms of rights and duties, feelings, status, identities, etc. and for large numbers of people throughout the world the idea of citizenship is still hollow and empty and meaningless, deprived as they are of virtually all of its amenities (Heater, 2002). In this milieu, it is very heartening that the Centre for Civil Society as an NGO involved in bringing about social change through public policy, has taken initiative to bring out this study that gives the reader the empirical flavour about amenities to the Delhi citizens.

The past few years has witnessed the phenomena of “internet shopping” grow in leaps and bounds. The term “online shopping” has become a buzzword and an ever growing trend among consumers even in a developing country like India. In fact, the market potential for e-commerce has a huge reservoir as explored through a sneak-peek into the exponential expansion of key players existing in the e-commerce industry. Moreover, online shopping has prodigiously influenced the lives of the modern day consumers, who have been observed to have a penchant towards it. The present research endeavour is aimed to probe into the perceptions of consumers towards e-shopping in the context of “Technology Acceptance Model” (TAM). For this purpose, a survey among 363 respondents in the metropolitan setting of Kolkata has been conducted and their responses were recorded. “Structural Equation Modeling” (SEM) has been used to examine and analyze the model fits and hypothesis testing. The findings reveal positive perception among the surveyed consumers towards online shopping.