BlackBook — India's Luxury Insider - September 2016

In this issue

India’s wide open roads are as addictive as they are dangerous. Potholes, a lack of medical and emergency facilities, an increase in heinous crimes — the list adds up — are draining colour from India’s stunning landscape. Despite that, motorcyclists are a tough lot and rule the roads. Our cover interview focuses on Harley-Davidson India’s market leadership and strong bikers’ community, both testament to the thirst for premium road machines.

Highways aside, Indian cities are worse. In our piece on driver less cars, experts have been scratching their heads trying to decipher whether autonomous cars indeed can ever grace our cities, considering the turmoil they would have to deal with. Think cycles, rickshaws, four-legged animals and two-legged mortals — a separate AI would need to be created to deal with this. And, if a gentle bovine decides to take a nap on the road, there is very little an intelligent car can do, except hope for divine intervention!

BlackBook — India's Luxury Insider Magazine Description:

BlackBook is India’s only luxury trade newsletter. The magazine dissects consumer behaviour patterns and tracks every new trend in the luxury industry across the world. Market white papers, interviews with leading luxury purveyors and columns written by the who’s who of the industry bring the biggest luxury stories to the desks of the decision makers of the industry.

BlackBook documents and archives the evolution of the luxury industry and tracks India’s attempt at becoming a serious playground for the biggest international brands.