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Indian Correspondent
Anand Kumar Sethi
Anand Sethi, an alumnus of the world famous Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay, is Managing Director of
SMS Associates Pvt. Ltd., India's leading representative company serving India's electronics manufacturing
establishment.
He has almost four decades of active involvement in the electronics sector in India and in many parts of the world
with expertise covering the gamut of EMS, SMT, Semiconductor, Photovoltaic, Hybrid Circuits sectors.
He has been associated with many leading Indian Corporate entities as also with several Central and State
Government organisations, and is considered a pioneer in bringing many high technology activities and ventures
to India, including such pioneering activities as India's first International Expositions on Electronics,
Telecommunications, Biotechnology and Aviation / Aerospace (India's famed Air Show in Bangalore owes its
start to Anand Sethi).
Anand is also a frequent writer for Indian and International technical and economic publications.
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Recent articles by Anand Kumar Sethi;
The card party begins (07 May 2010)
A ‘card carrying member’ has historically been associated with members of some political parties with manifestos not necessarily belonging to the democratic main stream. Well, in India this line of thinking will shortly undergo a massive change in mindset. Every Indian citizen, man, woman and child would very soon have a sixteen digit randomly generated Unique Identification Number (UID) and a card or cards with this UID embedded in what will be the world’s largest ID exercise to date....FULL STORY
India – The chip design business (01 February 2010)
Back in May 2007 in my piece in EMT Worldwide (The Chip Business), I questioned the need for India to put huge investments into establishing new wafer fabs and instead advocating investments in Chip and embedded circuit designing, which has a much more favourable jobs created to investment ratio....FULL STORY
The Indian microprocessor (26 October 2009)
In my piece, The Chip Business, back in 2007, I questioned the need for the Government of India (GOI) to spend billions of dollars on establishing a brand new, state of the art, chip wafer fabrication facility (with apologies to Jerry Sanders)....FULL STORY
Happy days are (almost) here again! (02 June 2009)
Early in the month of May 2009, India attained two very significant inflexion points. Firstly, it became the world’s fastest growing mobile telephony major market, overtaking China. Secondly, it became the country with the largest CDMA connections....FULL STORY
The democracy dividend for Indian electronics (17 April 2009)
The global electronics manufacturing business, as we all know, is going through some very testing times. Each day brings further gloomy news. Even in India, the EMS companies have by and large reduced their operations and are certainly cutting back on capital expenditure and inventories of materials and operating supplies....FULL STORY
Disruptive developments and technologies during recession (12 March 2009)
Some decades ago, studying at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, we studied History of Technology as part of our degree course. At that time, we all wondered why we should be taught irrelevant stuff that was in the past when a glorious future beckoned. How wrong we were! Those who do not learn from history go into the future without direction....FULL STORY
India and the global financial Tsunami (11 December 2008)
On Boxing Day, 26 December 2004, the world’s worst ever Tsunami hit many countries in the Indian Ocean area, causing massive and unprecedented destruction and the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives. ...FULL STORY
No business like show business (03 October 2008)
At the very outset let me confess that I am not overly enthused by conventional trade shows and conferences, and I am a bit sceptical as far as their efficacy goes with respect to exhibitors, participants and visitors. I have in the past also raised other issues, such as the Carbon costs of trade shows , EMTWW, December 2007....FULL STORY
Bangalored and Shanghaied during the US presidential campaign (26 August 2008)
Well strictly speaking the title should read ‘Shanghaied’ and ‘Bangalored’… as the reference to jobs moving to Bangalore is of more recent origin, whereas we all know the background to the original ‘Shanghaied’....FULL STORY
Electronics, energy conservation and the hypocrisy of ‘sustainability (09 July 2008)
Anand Sethi found the latest ‘sustainable’ conference enlightening, but not sustainable...FULL STORY
UK electronics – a fallen or sleeping giant? (15 April 2008)
Did Britain really do all that? Anand Sethi takes an outsider’s view of the UK’s electronics industry – and asks why it is not living up to its past reputation as a global innovator....FULL STORY
Hello Sunshine (04 February 2008)
Having spent a week in permanent darkness, Anand Sethi has seen the light regarding solar energy. But which technology will win the race to provide a manufacturable solution?...FULL STORY
Carbon costs of trade shows (10 December 2007)
Electronics is a global industry and communications within it is vitally important. But, as Anand Sethi points out in his column this month, are we communicating in a responsible way?...FULL STORY
‘Made in China’ conundrum (23 October 2007)
Anand Sethi believes that the reputation of Chinese manufacturers is still poor in India, and that they must pay more attention to quality if this is to change....FULL STORY
India and E-Waste (23 August 2007)
With the rapid growth of the electronics and IT sectors in India, the issue of ‘e-waste’ is now becoming a major problem. This is exacerbated by the liberalised import of huge amounts of IT related equipment to cater for the needs of the booming software exports and knowledge processing outsourcing businesses....FULL STORY
India in the news (23 July 2007)
Indian correspondent Anand K. Sethi takes a look at two recent developments affecting India at the moment. ...FULL STORY
EMS in India (18 June 2007)
India’s EMS market is forecast to grow at an astonishing five times the global average. Anand Sethi reports on the reasons for this success. ...FULL STORY
The 'Chip' Business (25 May 2007)
Anand K. Sethi, India Correspondent examines how for some years now, there has been a growing demand and pressure on the Government of India to provide adequate incentives to help establish world class chip fabrication units ('fabs') in the country...FULL STORY
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