Short read: How strong is your grip? It can be an indicator of overall health
It has been long believed that having a strong grip is a good indicator of overall health in person. Thankfully, this belief is supported by research. Lawrence Hayes says in this piece that: “Grip strength refers to the power generated by the muscles of the hand and forearm to perform actions such as grabbing, squeezing […]
Long read: Ardem Patapoutian, Nobel Prize winner in Medicine: ‘90% of people don’t even know they have a sense of proprioception’
Scientists don’t necessarily have to be boring, especially if you listen to this Noble prize winner – Ardem Patapoutian. In this free wheeling interview, he talks about his life origins, his scientific discovery and more importantly speaks up about the implications of Trump’s crack down on funding for scientific research. He ends with his very […]
Long read: The Changing Face Of Women’s Migration In Punjab
Some of us in Marcellus are reaching that point in our lives where our children are heading abroad to study at universities in the Western world. When we attend the events hosted by these Western universities in Mumbai, we can see that Indian girls outnumber boys 3:2 in these sessions. In our latest bestselling book, […]
Long Read: Op Sindoor is the first battle in India’s two-front war. A vicious pawn in a King’s Gambit
From the day the tragic attacks in Pahalgam unfolded during the US Vice-President’s “personal visit” to India, many of us have been getting the feeling that we are but pawns in a real-world chess game with a Chinese grandmaster sitting opposite us and making calm, calculated moves. In a brilliant piece, Shekhar Gupta builds on […]
The Sixth Commandment: Be Caring
Summary: Look after your colleagues, suppliers, distributors, & customers. Nurture a corporate culture focused on learning, on process, and on “means” (rather than “ends” such as financial targets). [To find out what the Ten Commandments of Indian Entrepreneurship are, please click here: https://marcellus.in/blogs/the-ten-commandments-of-entrepreneurship-in-india/] “Unless you know the individual, it’s very difficult to advise that individual as […]
MeritorQ: Quality Matters
Investing in a portfolio of value and cyclical stocks in India would have delivered comparable returns to portfolio of quality & consistently profitable companies respectively over longer term with value and cyclicals outperforming in the post-Covid period. However, an advantage of the quality style lies in its ability to delivers less volatile fundamental growth and […]
Short read: Can’t recall a person’s name? You are not alone
“Kartik Parija prides himself on his elephantine memory, yet lately, names have begun to slip away. “I’ve had moments when I reconnect with someone from the pre-internet days, vividly recall our shared history but momentarily blank on their name,” says the 49-year-old entrepreneur from Bengaluru. He recalls awkwardly steering such conversations without naming the person, […]
Short read: How Ukraine pulled off an audacious attack deep inside Russia
After a relatively peaceful few decades in human history, we have seen the world coming back to terms with wars. Whilst it is indeed tragic, the interim progress of technology and its incorporation into warfare is fascinating nonetheless. After the Indian armed forces reported precision missile strikes on Pakistani military bases and put on its […]
Short read: The rare disease in a remote town where ‘almost everyone is a cousin’
We tend to think of diseases being exogenous to our world – something that the gods send to punish us. In the real world, diseases arise from our genes. This story about a small town in Brazil where 30% of the people are related to each other due to marriage highlights how intermarriage amplifies the […]
Long read: How to cultivate collective intellectual humility
Intellectual humility is a term referred to as knowing our intellectual limitations or knowing what we don’t know. It is important as it not only stops us from hubris driven mistakes but also having identified our shortcomings, we have a shot at overcoming them, particularly important in inherently probabilistic endeavours such as investing. However, this […]
Long read: Sanskrit didn’t always drive innovation in ancient India. There are two reasons
Anirudh Kanisetti is a public historian. He is the author of ‘Lords of Earth and Sea: A History of the Chola Empire’ and the award-winning ‘Lords of the Deccan’. We enjoy Mr Kanisetti’s pieces because he is not only skilled at using history to give us learnings from the past but also at using history […]
Long read: India’s car economy leaves the middle-class fuming
In this thought-provoking piece Andy Mukherjee highlights that whilst India has built the world’s second largest road network, the high cost of using this network is robbing the country of the economic benefits of the said network. First off, Mr Mukherjee, informs us of the massive scale of India’s highway network: “At 6 million-plus kilometers (4 […]
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