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Arati Rao
Aug 15, 2012

Close-Up: ‘We need the dreamers... We need to protect them’

Prasoon Joshi, the multi-faceted president of McCann Worldgroup, South Asia, tells Arati Rao why moments of confusion in one's career choices are significant, and why clients have to help bring the fun back into advertising

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