Short read: To marry or not to marry: What’s stopping young urban Indians from saying ‘I do’
The opening lines of this insightful piece from Rinku Ghosh has one of the central characters featured in the story saying, ““Marriage today has become a complex challenge. Everybody has their individual goals and pressures to deal with. And aligning them or accommodating each other without acrimony and regret is the toughest task. No one […]
Long read: Why I gave up trying to delete myself from the internet
Our increasingly digital lives have meant that the outside world knows more about us than we would like. It is not just about our individual preference for privacy, this exposes us to real risk of impersonations and online fraud. In this piece, the author, a journalist at The Economist shares her experience of trying to […]
Long read: At Mar-a-Lago, ‘Uncle’ Elon Musk Puts His Imprint on the Trump Transition
As voting patterns emerge, it appears that Donald Trump’s unexpected landslide win is more due to the American working class’ disappointment with the Democrats than a pro-Trump vote. Yet, markets have rallied reinforcing Trump’s pro-business stance. Indeed, the Trump campaign did benefit from the support of the business community, most notably Elon Musk, the world’s […]
Long read: ‘These are people in the prime of life’: The worrying puzzle behind the rise in early-onset cancer
David Cox’s story is about a subject that should be of interest to most of us: “There are rising cases of breast, colorectal and other cancers in people in their 20s, 30s and 40s… The investigation’s early findings, presented by an international team at the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) congress in Geneva in […]
Short read: Why it costs India so little to reach the Moon and Mars
When India successfully completed its historic launch of Chandrayaan-3 last year, there was a meme going around that its $75m cost was lower than the $100m budget of the sci-fi movie Gravity. India has punched way above its weight in terms of its space programme despite its developmental stage and relatively meagre resources compared to […]
Short read: Can We Prevent Cancer With a Shot?
Cancer survivorship has remarkably increased over the past couple of decades given the significant strides in medicine. Yet, it remains one of the key risks for life expectancy and quality of life in old age. So, it is encouraging to see possibilities of a vaccine for prevention. There are of course vaccines already available for […]
Short read: All about Major Bob Khathing, whose daring expedition & diplomatic parleys secured Tawang for India
If you haven’t been to Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh your life is as incomplete as it would if you haven’t been to Agra to see the Taj Mahal. Tawang is as breathtakingly beautiful as it is historical. There are four compelling reasons to visit this town which sits 15K feet high up in the Himalayas, […]
Long read: Prejudice and China
China is no longer just a source of cheap manufacturing for the rest of the world. In industry after industry, China is now setting global standards. Most remarkably in automobiles, as a recent quote from the Ford CEO in this piece goes “Freshly returned from a visit to China, Farley told The Wall Street Journal that the […]
Long read: How to build a nuclear tomb to last millennia
It is fashionable these days to talk about how nuclear power is making a comeback in a world characterised by roaring power demand alongside concerns regarding climate change. For its proponents, nuclear power is a solution to both of these problems. These proponents might want to read this article in the BBC about nuclear waste. […]
Long read: Inside the enduring heft of big business groups
The Indian economy liberalised in 1991. This piece in the Mint uses comparative data on corporate assets and revenues to assess which business groups have risen in India over the last 30 years and which ones have faded away. The biggest winner is – you guessed it – Reliance which accounts for 9.6% of India’s […]
The Big Are Getting Bigger and the Southern Ascendancy
Over the last 10 years, whilst India Inc’s PAT has grown at 17% p.a. on an average, the median Indian company’s PAT has grown at 15%. Delving into this gap between the average vs the median gave us two findings: (a) larger companies have grown profits faster than smaller companies; and (b) southern Indian companies’ […]
‘Capitalism Without Capital’ Fuels CCP
Capitalism without capital, i.e., the growing prominence of companies who are plays on intellectual rather than physical assets, is now increasingly prominent in India. Marcellus’ Consistent Compounder Portfolio (CCP) is actively participating in this theme. Over the past 5 years, profits of companies in our current CCP portfolio have grown at a significantly faster pace […]
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