Aresh Shirali

At Basel, the world's premier fair for luxury watches, black is everywhere

The good thing about this place is that almost everybody here knows many multiples more than what most will ever know about watches

Basel has always been a place where nothing needs add up at first sight

The burger market sizzles like never before

The conjuror of this illusion, of course, is what we call ‘inflation’. And while American policymakers have managed to quell it, in India it still moves in mysterious ways

Mercedes zips past rivals to regain leadership of the Indian luxury car market. A story foretold not by the night sky but by a blurry flag

That’s life in a lost state

As the boss of OPEC, a cartel that has given the world many an ‘oil shock’ in the past, Saudi Aramco is no ordinary company. Can such an entity be privatised even fractionally?

Instead of governments going libertarian with ‘nudge’ policies, businesses appear to be turning more and more coercive. Taxi-hailing services are a fine example