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Jigsaw is a strategic branding consultancy helping companies drive business growth through their brands

Age used to tell brands a lot. Where someone was in life, how they spent, what they wore, what they might want next.That...
29/09/2026

Age used to tell brands a lot. Where someone was in life, how they spent, what they wore, what they might want next.

That relationship is loosening. A new confidence in the 40s, 50s and 60s means people are less willing to live by the script of their age. They are not trying to look younger. They are simply consulting age less.

At 25, confidence is about proving. At 45, it becomes about choosing. At 60, it becomes about claiming.

Brands still give youth ownership of discovery, possibility and adventure, and move older consumers towards comfort, protection and reassurance.

The better question is no longer "How old is my consumer?" It is "How confidently are they inhabiting this stage of their life?"

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MTV Hustle 5 is not just a music show. It is a window into how ambition sounds now. The new Indian success story is not ...
18/09/2026

MTV Hustle 5 is not just a music show. It is a window into how ambition sounds now. The new Indian success story is not always in polished English or old Bollywood Hindi. It is in mixed registers, local slang, regional pride, borrowed global flows and very specific hometown emotion. Language here is not a barrier to scale. It is the source of texture. The more specific the voice, the more transportable it becomes. — — Source note: MTV Hustle 5 appeared in Aug 2026 OTT listings from Vodafone Idea.

Actual-ish things heard in the studio this week. Welcome to the glamorous life of overthinking everything. —
11/09/2026

Actual-ish things heard in the studio this week. Welcome to the glamorous life of overthinking everything. —

Luxury used to work by being instantly recognisable. The logo, the silhouette, the name told everyone you had arrived.Bu...
07/09/2026

Luxury used to work by being instantly recognisable. The logo, the silhouette, the name told everyone you had arrived.

But recognition itself is getting easier to acquire. We can now learn the cult watch, the archival season, the impossible reservation or the tiny label from a few hours down the right rabbit hole.

So the signal is changing. The flex is no longer simply owning the expensive thing. It is knowing which thing, why this one matters, and recognising the reference before everyone else does.

And sometimes, the fewer people who understand it, the better it works. Because status is becoming less about being seen by everyone and more about being recognised by your people.

The new luxury signal might just be: someone here gets it.

Indian desire rarely travels naked.It arrives with something attached. A condition. A reason. A sacrifice. Another perso...
02/09/2026

Indian desire rarely travels naked.
It arrives with something attached. A condition. A reason. A sacrifice. Another person. The right moment. An alibi.
Archaeology of Desire, at the XChange forum in Mumbai: the Indian code of wanting, and the six moves we make around it.
The Mannatwala — earn it.
The Nazarbattu — lower the volume.
The Muhurtiya — wait for it.
The Panchayati — get it co-signed.
The Bahanebaaz — give it a good reason.
The Tyagi — rise above it.
There's a 90-second quiz to find your archetype — the room took it live. The real answer: you are all six. Which one appears depends on what is at stake. Want to take it? Comment and we'll send it across.
Better question than "what do you want?" — what has to become true before you allow yourself to want it?
Art House, Juhu. Thank you for the room.change_india

In today's print edition of the Financial Express: our founder Rutu Mody-Kamdar on Indian Gen Z's funniest memes.“Eight ...
02/09/2026

In today's print edition of the Financial Express: our founder Rutu Mody-Kamdar on Indian Gen Z's funniest memes.

“Eight months unemployed lol.” A joke about the EMI your parents expect you to take on. Parental disappointment, career anxiety and rent, all turned into memes. This isn't a generation that refuses to take anything seriously — humour is one of the few socially permitted ways of saying that something has gone wrong. Irony isn't attitude. It is permission.

Which makes memes far more interesting for brands. Beneath the humour is real testimony about what it feels like to be young in India right now. Notice the format and you'll miss the confession.

Read the full column in Brand Wagon, page 9.

Food comes home. Groceries come home. Movies come home. Work happens from home. Dates arrive through apps. Cabs arrive a...
02/09/2026

Food comes home. Groceries come home. Movies come home. Work happens from home. Dates arrive through apps. Cabs arrive at the door.

Convenience made life easier. It also removed a lot of chance encounters.

So we are putting the accident back in. Run clubs, supper clubs, silent reading groups, pottery circles, dinners with strangers. You sign up, you show up, and you meet people you weren't expecting to meet.

Which means we are now planning spontaneity. We book a run to meet people unexpectedly. We reserve a seat beside strangers. We are beginning to pay for the accidents city life once gave us for free.

It works because meeting people is awkward, but running isn't. Reading isn't. Eating isn't. Nobody arrives thinking "I need to make friends" — they arrive to do something, and connection happens along the way.

For brands, the opportunity is a shift in ambition. We are very good at creating things people attend once: launches, pop-ups, concerts, influencer nights. The bigger opportunity is creating something people want to return to. Something recurring, participatory, where people begin to recognise one another.

For years we have asked how to remove friction. But the shared table, the weekly gathering, the familiar face — maybe some friction is exactly what brings us together.

What could your brand help people bump into?

Reality TV was once where you went when the career had gone quiet.Now, increasingly, it is where you go to make it loude...
27/08/2026

Reality TV was once where you went when the career had gone quiet.

Now, increasingly, it is where you go to make it louder.

From actors and creators to entrepreneurs and influencers, reality formats are becoming less of a comeback vehicle and more of a career accelerator. A place to build fandom, reveal personality, generate conversation and step into the next version of your public self.

Perhaps that says something larger about careers today too.

They are no longer neat ladders. They are loops, pivots, side quests and second acts.

Sometimes, the exit door is simply another entrance.

Tukaram Mundhe's food safety crackdown is a reminder of how good service in India has often meant finding a way to say y...
24/08/2026

Tukaram Mundhe's food safety crackdown is a reminder of how good service in India has often meant finding a way to say yes. Ho jayega. Adjust kar lenge. Manage ho jayega. The person who bends the rule feels helpful. The institution that finds a workaround feels human.

But when the stakes are food, health, safety or money, that same flexibility stops feeling generous. "We'll manage" starts to sound like someone cutting a corner.

That is why refusal is starting to read as care. No exemptions, no excuses, no fixing it out of sight — and the emotion it produces is relief. Someone else is finally being difficult on our behalf.

For brands, the opportunity isn't just a new message. It's a new kind of evidence: what did you reject? What did you send back? Where did you refuse to adjust?

A standard becomes credible when a brand is willing to lose something to uphold it.

₹280 for a matcha. ₹299 for a mini perfume. ₹350 for an unusually good dessert.Each one small enough to say yes to.We ke...
10/08/2026

₹280 for a matcha. ₹299 for a mini perfume. ₹350 for an unusually good dessert.

Each one small enough to say yes to.

We keep reading this as consumers cutting back. It looks like the opposite to us. People are economising without giving up pleasure — they are finding smaller ways to feel upgraded, rewarded and occasionally extravagant.

Aspiration used to look like a ladder: a steady climb, one upgrade at a time. It now looks like pockets. Someone compares prices carefully at the grocery, waits for a sale before buying clothes, and still spends ₹300 on an iced matcha because Tuesday was terrible.

Frugal at 5:00. Indulgent at 5:15. Same consumer, no contradiction.

What that ₹300 actually buys is not the product. It is novelty, participation, self-reward, taste, identity and a story worth telling. It briefly buys a different version of your day.

Which changes the question for brands. Not "how do we get consumers to trade up?" but "what can we create that feels worth treating yourself to?"

For years the battleground was share of wallet. We think it is now share of little joys.

Aspiration has survived financial caution remarkably well. It has simply learnt how to come in smaller packs.

What is your category’s ₹300?

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