All stories by Dhruv Munjal
Fabulous 5 India's Tokyo hopes ride on
Rediff.com16 Jul 2021This time, India may win as many as 17 medals at the Games.
Time for Kohli to hit RESET button
Rediff.com6 Jul 2021Deep down, Kohli perhaps well understands that in the most challenging of conditions, his team needs more than just his sheer force of will to succeed. It requires that extra skill, tenacity and temperament. His jigsaw is near-ready; he just needs to find the final pieces, observes Dhruv Munjal.
From Matinee to Rahasya, breweries are out to lift your spirit
Rediff.com11 Apr 2021Young Indians seem genuinely enthusiastic about craft brands that are hip, aspirational and have plenty of the novelty quotient, says Dhruv Munjal.
'Kohli has phenomenal connect with youth'
Rediff.com10 Apr 2021'RCB is a natural choice for us, mainly due to our long-standing association with Virat Kohli.'
WWE throws its weight behind India, its biggest global market
Rediff.com2 Mar 2021The WWE says that India is its biggest market globally in terms of television viewership -- around 350 million unique viewers annually -- social media engagement and YouTube consumption, even claiming that it is the second-most watched sport in the country behind cricket.
Is The Crown Fact or Fiction?
Rediff.com9 Feb 2021For the current generation, enchanted by the monarchy but unaware of its past, The Crown may well perform the role of a history textbook, notes Dhruv Munjal.
Rishabh Pant: Next poster boy of Indian cricket
Rediff.com3 Feb 2021'He just has to keep performing, and mustn't let this go to his head.'
Rise of Cars24, India's latest unicorn
Rediff.com6 Dec 2020Co-founders of India's latest unicorn expected Covid-19 to be a speed breaker; instead it accelerated sales. Cars24 now enjoys more than 90 per cent market share among all other similar online transaction platforms. Dhruv Munjal traces the birth of this used-cars platform.
Why Mumbai Indians is the brand to bet on
Rediff.com20 Nov 2020Much of this has been made possible by the owners's insistence on building a team, rather than banking on a collection of talented individuals not necessarily suited to play alongside one another.
Ravi Shastri turns entrepreneur
Rediff.com13 Nov 202023 Yards will include body wash, beard oil, shaving gel, deodorant and sanitizer.
Interested in stocks? Watch Scam 1992!
Rediff.com22 Oct 2020The insatiable greed for money and power is too large, too repugnant to thwart. And no one epitomised that better than Harshad Mehta, notes Dhruv Munjal.
Bad Boy Billionaires Review
Rediff.com17 Oct 2020The Bad Boy Billionaires series has a lot in common: The three billionaires' hefty ambition, dangerous arrogance and untrammeled power, observes Dhruv Munjal.
For Harley-Davidson, Indian roads were always bumpy
Rediff.com13 Oct 2020From being exorbitantly priced to facing stiff competition, Harley was always going to find it tough to crack a market like India, says Dhruv Munjal.
Cricket's lost chance
Rediff.com6 Sep 2020Given the relative paucity of cricket this year, Test cricket has emerged as a healer for deprived fans, notes Dhruv Munjal.
Bhutanese beer crosses the Himalayas into India
Rediff.com30 Aug 2020Bhutanese brewery Serbhum is behind Kati Patang, a beer sold by Delhi-based Empyrean Spirits. Launched in Zesty Amber and Snappy Wheat variants in 2018, Kati Patang prides itself on being "brewed with the happiest water on earth".
Brand Dhoni remains unbeatable despite slow fadeout
Rediff.com25 Aug 2020Dhoni presently endorses a healthy 25 brands, and found himself in fifth place on the Forbes India Celebrity 100 list last year, with earnings worth almost Rs 136 crore. How much of that is set to change, given that Dhoni has chosen to call time on his international career?
The English Game: Football version of Downton Abbey
Rediff.com16 May 2020'The English Game could have been truly great -- a precious glimpse into how the game went from being played by just the rich to one being eventually dominated by the masses,' observes Dhruv Munjal.
Why you should watch The Test
Rediff.com10 May 2020'If there were ever a PR exercise to fix the seemingly irreparable image of Australian cricket in the aftermath of the most notorious on-field scandal in recent memory, then this is it,' observes Dhruv Munjal.
Remember these sporting moments?
Rediff.com10 Apr 2020As we sit at home and miss live action, the wondrous phenomenon of sport has delivered so many past glories that we will probably never run out of things to see, recalls Dhruv Munjal.
Saluting Sport in the times of COVID-19
Rediff.com3 Apr 2020'Revisit old footage, perhaps: Your favourite Messi goal, your most memorable Tendulkar century, your dearest Manchester United comeback.' 'Only then will we be able to grasp the lost meaning of why we watch sport, why we love it so much,' notes Dhruv Munjal.