In discussion with Ambi Parameswaran & Sanjeev Kotnala Discussing Ambi Parameswaran's Book #10: **Spring - Bouncing Back from Rejection**. Published by Westland books It's always a pleasure chatting with Ambi Parameswaran, and since he had read the book and he's an integral part of the MxM family, and more importantly had [reviewed his book on MxMIndia.com](https://www.mxmindia.com/2020/09/reviewing-ambi-parameswarans-spring-accepting-and-handling-rejection/), we invited him to be part of the chat show. It was an interesting discussion, albeit of just a little over 30 minutes which can't do justice to a discussion with two 'maharathis' of marketing services and business strategy. Kotnala spoke about how it's essential reading for students and young executives and Ambi discussed about his rejection experience. Listen. Enjoy. Like... (and I must add: buy the book!)

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MXM Cast with Ambi Parameswaran & Sanjeev Kotnala

Media agency captains Harish Shriyan and Amit Ray have a candid conversation with MxMIndia founder and editor-in-chief Pradyuman Maheshwari. Shriyan was until earlier this year, Group CEO of the Omnicom Media Group. Prior to that he held leadership positions in MediaCom and has managed the portfolios of global giants like Renault, Nissan, HP, Volkswagen, Beiersdorf, Vivo, Sony Pictures, Johnson & Johnson among others and Indian biggies like Tata Motors, Kotak Mahindra, Arvind Mills and Parle Agro. Ray has headed media agency operations at Mudra and Lintas Media Group, among others and worked with multinationals like Unilever and Nestle and Indian corporations like ITC and Reliance Jio. He has been the longest-serving Chairman of the Technical Committee at the MRUC and is a specialist in measurement science. Listen. Enjoy. Like.

MXM Cast with Harish Shriyan and Amit Ray

On Saturday, August 15, The Times of India had a blockbuster of an edition across many centres. Mumbai, Delhi, Gurugram, Kolkata, Chennai and Hyderabad and perhaps a few others. We thought it was a good time to pitch for an interview with Partha Sinha, President – Response at Bennett, Coleman & Co Ltd (BCCL), better known as The Times of India group. Sinha had joined BCCL with much fanfare in March this year, just a few days before the Lockdown was effected. We had wanted to interview him on the day we first heard of the news – sometime in late Jan or early Feb, but guess it had to be under wraps. And then the Lockdown happened, and we didn’t think it right to stress him. When we learnt from his team about the super-thick editions, we thought it would the right time to pitch. They agreed. And so did he. So without further ado, here’s the interview. Free, frank and freewheeling. The interview talks about the blockbuster edition but delves into his views on the print business. Heck, why are we telling you this. Listen. Enjoy. Like.

MXM Cast with Partha Sinha

Those who know him would appreciate what a candid conversation with him means. For Girish Agarwaal, Promoter Director of the Dainik Bhaskar Group doesn’t mince words. And is perhaps the Indian newspaper business’s biggest evangelist. Over the last few months, Agarwaal and his team of over 10,000 people across the country have been working overtime to undo the damage that the Covid-19-led pandemic caused to the newspaper business. And the proof of the pudding is in the eating: Dainik Bhaskar and Divya Bhaskar has had some blockbuster, jumbo editions in the last few weeks. As part of the MxM India Leadership Series interviews, I had a 23-odd-minute chat with Girish Agarwaal, clearly one of the most influential newspaper owners in the country. When you listen to the interview – especially his clarion call to advertisers and media agency folk, you know why he’s like few others.

The Leadership Series Interview with Girish Agarwaal

While the reason for this red hot interview was the success of Republic Bharat in the ratings roster and hence the emergence of Republic as the #1 news network in these two key languages, when you are chatting with an Arnab Goswami, you can’t not stray into issues like his journalism, the noise factor on his shows, charges of his BJP bias, etc etc. So did we do an Arnab on Arnab? No, we didn’t. We let him speak. We didn’t interject. No change in body language to put him on the defensive. This interview was done in a flash. We had to set up the Zoom call in less than five minutes. So we weren’t armed with specific instances when he has stretched himself on telly. So if were to judge it ourselves, yes, we could’ve have been tougher on him. Grilled him. But, then, we aren’t Arnab Goswami. MxMIndia editor-in-chief Pradyuman Maheshwari interviewed him the way he normally conducts other interviews. Asked him the relevant questions, joked around a bit. It’s not an Arnab on Arnab. It’s an MxM with Arnab. And Arnab let Pradyuman speak. Ha ha. Listen. Enjoy. Like.

Arnab Goswami on Journalism, Republic TV and more

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