The Computer Pioneer Who Built Modern China
We often meet people in India who look at China in admiration and say wistfully that “if only we too had an authoritarian government which could prioritise economic development over everything else, we too would be like India.” This tendency to look at a successful company or country and come up with a one-dimensional view […]
How the Pandemic Will End
As the world grapples with the here and now of the challenges posed to human life and the economy alike, here is a rather well thought through attempt by Ed Yong in The Atlantic at looking into the future broken into three phases: 1) The Next months; 2) The Endgame and 3) The Aftermath. Ed […]
The Foundations of India’s Economic Recovery Are in Place
Four times in the last 40 years, a US recession alongside falling US bond yields and falling oil prices has been followed by a strong economic recovery in India. In fact, India has NEVER witnessed an economic recovery without a US recession preceding it! Now, all three conditions for an Indian economic recovery – a […]
Why What Does Not Kill Us Makes Us Panic
When we were college in the 1990s, “risk” was something that only Risk Management Professionals did. They even had (and still have) exams for such people. As we have grown older we have realised that all of us have to be risk managers at home, on the road and in the office. And the bad […]
Too Busy? Make Time To ‘Do Nothing’
Many of us think that when in our leisure time we read stuff on the internet or on social media, we are not “working”. Such distinctions between work and leisure are actually meaningless says this piece from David Greene which is based on a new book called “Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing […]
Stopping the rot: the fight to save fresh food
Away from the doom and gloom of Covid-19, some good news from the world of material sciences – a technology to reduce or even eliminate food wastage. Reducing wastage of food not only helps more efficient utilisation of scarce resources across the global population but also helps in addressing climate change. “We waste an extraordinary […]
A Recession is a Public Health Necessity. Here’s How to Make it Short and Sharp
Whilst the world has now accepted the importance of social distancing as the main tool to contain the spread of the virus and thereby ‘flatten the curve’, governments are also scrambling to come up with measures to handle the economic consequences, which can be quite dire by themselves. Several hundreds of thousands of businesses will […]
Yuval Noah Harari: the world after coronavirus
Earlier this week, Yuval Noah Harari, known for his fascinating book on history ‘Sapiens’, created a furore with his tweet accusing the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coronavirus related emergency decrees as dictatorial. In this oped in the FT, he elaborates on why this could be the biggest threat emerging out of this crisis – […]
The Man Who Saw the Pandemic Coming
This is an interview in the Nautilus with Dennis Caroll, the man who has been at the forefront of researching potential infectious diseases for humanity orignating from the animal genepool. “For decades, Carroll has been a leading voice about the threat of zoonotic spillover, the transmission of pathogens from nonhuman animals to us. Scientists are confident […]
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