From conglomerates to startups, Indian companies will have to find ways to survive the challenging 12 months ahead.
A new year comes with cheer and hope of better days to come. One holds on to that promise as we start 2023 with some of the concerns of 2022 continuing as hangovers. Fears of another pandemic wave, an impending global recession and a raging war add to the unease about layoffs and a funding squeeze among startups, and the apprehensions of a high interest rate regime hurting consumer demand for the rest of Indian industry. The hope is that the Indian economy will manage to decouple from the rest of the world’s problems. Otherwise, 2023 is going to be …