UDIT KULSHRESTHA
An Indian photojournalist in Delhi.
Photojournalism, Photography, Reportage, Conflict, Gender issues, ethnic violence, Culture, Portraits, Portraiture
PROJECTS
hindustantimes.com
Photos: Ahead of IPL 2018, making cricket gear at Meerut’s Sanspareils Greenlands
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With the 2018 Indian Premier League knocking, a worker measures the length of an unfinished cricket bat at Sanspareils Greenlands (SG), in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. From their cricket balls and bats to protective equipment, clothing, ground equipment and accessories used across sporting disciplines, Sanspareils Greenlands has been a legendary name in Indian sporting gear. (Udit Kulshrestha / Bloomberg)
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SG began in Sialkot in 1931 when brothers Dwarkanath and Kedarnath Anand decided to di...
National Geographic
India Launches Massive Push for Clean Power, Lighting, and Cars
Vienna, AustriaIndia is in the midst of the “largest energy transformation project in the world" organizers of the Vienna Energy Forum declared, while introducing the keynote speaker, India’s Energy Minister Piyush Goyal on May 11.
“Everything changed in 2015 with the Paris climate agreement. We must decouple economic growth from environmental impacts and leave a better world,” said Goyal, to loud applause from the 1650 energy experts and government officials in Vienna. “Every moment counts.”...
Forbes India
Shiv Nadar's New Innings: Philanthropy
Shiv Nadar
Founder and chairman of HCL, and Shiv Nadar Foundation
Age: 68
Rank in the Rich List -7
Net Worth: $8.6 billion
The Big Challenge Faced in the Last Year: Attracting the right talent to set the base for the foundation
The Way Forward: His most ambitious philanthropy initiative, Shiv Nadar University, is yet to stabilise. The big test will be two years later when the first batch of students from the university and VidyaGyaan School graduate
As the jet touches down on the runway at Lu...
hindustantimes.com
Photos: Ikea opens 1st store in India, aims to redefine shopping for middle-class
The interior of the store has a noticeable local feel too, with Indian-design bedspreads and framed photos of the Taj Mahal and other Indian monuments -- alongside Klimt’s painting “The Kiss” recalling faraway Europe. (Udit Kulshrestha / Bloomberg)
Ikea revolutionised homeware retail with affordable, self-assembly furniture with a Scandinavian twist, sold in stroll-around megastores offering a break for Swedish meatballs. On Thursday its first Indian outlet opens -- with success far from guar...
bloombergquint.com
Watch Out for India’s Next Generation of Tycoons
(Bloomberg) -- As India’s richest men hit their 60s and beyond, succession questions about the next generation of tycoons will increasingly emerge in a country where business is still dominated by family-run enterprises.
Bloomberg has profiled some of these young guns of corporate India, selecting those who are 35 and under, based in India, have a public profile, and whose billionaire fathers are valued at more than $2 billion. Some have started their own ventures and avoided their fathers’ s...
BBC
Meet the dancing girls of India's 'folk opera' - BBC News
Meet the dancing girls of India's 'folk opera' - BB...
South China Morning Post
From tradition to modern design, India's shoe making industry
India's shoe making industry
The Irish Times
Ikea opens first Indian outlet and tailors products to local market
Spice boxes, lower worktops and non-beef meatballs: Swedish giant sets up in India
Ikea spent 12 years studying India and visited 1,000 homes in major cities to see how its people lived. This week, as a few dozen early shoppers walked through the doors as the emporium opened in Hyderabad, the acid test began of whether the furniture giant understands what Indian consumers want.
“I have no plans to blow a lot of money today, maybe just buy some kitchenware, but this is going to be a destinatio...
Bloomberg
Indians Need Tools to Succeed
If India is to live up the expectations of its own people and become a successful middle-income country in a few decades, the country has multiple problems to solve -- its sclerotic politics, its clogged infrastructure, its choked judicial system, its lack of investable capital, its interfering and inefficient state. But perhaps the greatest hurdle is its poor stock of human capital. Without better education, health and skills, India won’t be able to build a middle class and its efforts to be...
The Irish Times
Tensions rise in East Asia as China flexes its muscles
Opinion: Arguments over territorial claims could trigger military face-offs
“India’s Shinzo Abe?” The headline in an Indian paper about the election of Narendra Modi makes an interesting connection and speaks volumes about the changing face of eastern Asia’s big players and the region’s disturbing, militarising dynamic. East Asia is becoming a more dangerously volatile place as China flexes its muscles, reviving a series of bitter territorial disputes, testing perceptions of weaker US commitm...
theprint.in
India’s first Ikea store in Hyderabad will offer samosas & ‘vegetable meatballs’
From installing furniture at people’s home to serving food catering to Indian taste, Ikea is doing it all to succeed in India.
Ikea spent 12 years studying India and visited 1,000 homes in major cities to see how its people lived. Today, as a few dozen early shoppers walked through the doors as the emporium opened in Hyderabad, the acid test began of whether the furniture giant understands what Indian consumers want.
“I have no plans to blow a lot of money today, maybe just buy some kitchenwa...
The Hindu
‘Okhla waste plant violates Master Plan 2021’
: The Okhla waste-to-energy plant in south Delhi should be immediately shut down as it violates Delhi Master Plan 2021, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) was on Tuesday told.
The Tribunal was hearing a plea filed by the Sukhdev Vihar Residents’ Welfare Association praying for the closure of the plant on the grounds of various irregularities.
Senior advocate Amit Chadha, appearing for the Association, told a Bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar that the plant was situated in...
afr.com
Collateral damage at Akzo Nobel
Play the ball not the man is all very well as an aphorism during times of concord.
But the bitter €27bn struggle over Akzo Nobel has clearly had an impact on the health of Ton Büchner, chief executive, who announced his resignation on Wednesday.
His departure could yet make a deal with suitor PPG more likely.
Overall, Mr Büchner did a creditable job at Akzo. Since his appointment in 2012, worries over a once gaping pension deficit are gone and operating margins are growing thanks to shrewd co...
fountainink.in
Native and the immigrant
Ethnic clashes in Assam’s Bodoland Territorial Areas Districts, Assam.