Beyond AI, the changing world order with the ascent of China as a rival superpower to America is shaking up geopolitics and is now playing out in the sports arena too. The Winter Olympics doesn’t get great coverage here in India but its latest superstar Eileen Gu was at the receiving end of the American […]
In vibrant democracies, power – in both political and business life – is contested by rival constituencies every single day. It gives the rest of the world plenty of newsflow to cheer and jeer about but however ugly that might look, the financial returns that the world’s mightiest democracies produce can’t be matched by other […]
In our forthcoming book, “Breakpoint” we have provided several case studies of how AI is disrupting careers which until a year ago were thought to be impervious to disruption eg. attractive young people who appear as models in advertisements, lighting experts who work in the film industry, film directors. Last week Bytedance introduced new AI […]
When we talk about corporate governance issues in Indian companies with foreign investors, they say we look squeaky clean compared to our East Asian peers including the much-developed economies such as Japan and Korea. Indeed, it wasn’t until recently when the late Japanese PM Shinzo Abe drove corporate governance reforms, that attracted governance focused foreign […]
Earlier this week, global markets went into turmoil on the back of research from a little known research firm called Citrini in collaboration with Alap Shah, the CIO of an investment management firm. What did the research say that spooked the market? To begin with, the title: The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis. Over the past […]
Thanks to the detailed coverage of political and economic decisions of world leaders in this age of information overload, we are not only able to get multiple perspectives on their decisions but also study the reaction of voters to these decisions. As we do so, the most interesting aspect of what we see is that […]
Thanks to a remarkable surge in power demand, the world needs an extra 400 gigawatts of electricity each year. For supply to keep up with this demand surge means $600 billion per year of capex for the next five years. This explains why major industrial firms across the world are currently experiencing record or multi-year […]
Several cultures across the world have an afternoon nap native to them, most famously the Spanish siesta. Whilst this may not be a practical option for many in today’s corporate life, this article looks at studies which show the benefits of napping during the day. “A randomised controlled trial in 2023 found that nappers woke […]
Our Prime Minister said last year that obesity is becoming a grave crisis for our nation. And yet, Indians are not taking notice. As Vijay Jadhav notes in this article: “Only one in 10 Indians exercised on a given day in 2024, according to the Time Use Survey by the National Statistics Office (NSO). Exercise […]
One of the most perplexing aspects of India’s development over the past two decades is that inspite of now having a large university system (ranking in size only behind the three large economic blocks in the world: USA, China and Europe) and inspite of receiving $40-50 billion of Venture Capital and Private Equity funding every […]
The cult of busyness refers to a cultural mindset where being busy is treated as a virtue or status symbol. People often equate a packed schedule with importance, productivity and personal worth. In this Substack, Tamara rants about this contagion: “Once upon a time, “busy” was merely descriptive. You could be busy milking cows, busy […]
In this long article Dhruv Khullar explains the surprisingly complex, powerful and often mysterious impacts that GLP-1 medications have on the human body. At one level, these medications seem to have the potential to cure a variety of things which ail human beings. At another level, what these medications are doing could be messing up […]
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