Why Eating Meat Was Banned in Japan for Centuries
Whilst India goes through its own debate over beef, it is intriguing to know that for over 12 centuries, meat eating was considered taboo in Japan. This may come across as a surprise to some people who have found Japan to be the haven for quality beef or have seen other unconventional meat on menus […]
In Kolkata, home is where the drama is
Kolkata is witnessing a new type of theatre. Called site-specific theatre, these are plays which are staged in the city’s grand old homes. “Site-specific theatre, a term that The Guardian says has been gaining traction since the 1980s, refers to productions that are not in the traditional theatre space but grow out of the sites where […]
The Chinese takeover of Indian app ecosystem
Chinese mobile handset manufacturers dominating the Indian mobile devices market was not surprising given their dominance in manufacturing but Chinese apps taking over the Indian app ecosystem is a big surprise for many. Five out of the top 10 mobile apps in India are Chinese. Few reasons for the spectacular success of Chinese: deep pockets […]
The World’s Cheapest Hospital Has to Get Even Cheaper
The article begins with a description of Dr Devi Shetty, the founder & promoter of Narayana Hrudayalaya – a chain of heart centres and multi-specialty hospitals – performing a complicated heart surgery. “…pulmonary thromboendarterectomy, the surgery Shetty performed, can tie up an operating room for most of a day. In the U.S., the procedure can cost […]
DE Shaw: inside Manhattan’s ‘Silicon Valley’ hedge fund
In 1988, David Shaw, a computer science professor in Columbia University created a small company above a bookshop – Revolution Books – in New York City. That startup is today one of the largest hedge funds in the world – DE Shaw has US$50bn of assets under management. It is the fourth highest grossing hedge […]
Marcellus: The Foundations of Self-Belief
Published on: 5 April, 2019 Self-belief is known to be a magical catalyst with a proven track record of delivering transformational results in sport, in business and in investing. The roots of self-belief lie as much in the environment in which an individual finds herself in as in the innate characteristics she’s born with. “The […]
‘Doing nothing’ is perhaps the most difficult thing to do
Buying the Consistent Compounders and holding them for long time periods becomes a difficult exercise asinvestors are bombarded with newsflow and the apprehensions which come with newsflow. As a result,investors tend to do injustice to the size of their allocation to the Consistent Compounders and the length of the holding period of this portfolio. The solution […]
How Instagram Replaced the Contacts List
Technology is changing the way we interact and communicate with each other and Instagram is fast becoming the preferred mode for millennials to interact with the world. With over a billion monthly Instagram users, people are preferring to exchange their Instagram handle rather than exchanging their mobile number. Taylor points to various advantages of using […]
Can India provide water for all by 2030?
India draws a third of its water from aquifers. However, these aquifers are depleting at a rapid rate. “Most of the world’s water systems that keep the ecosystems thriving and feed a growing human population are under severe stress. The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands in its report, Global Wetland Outlook: State of World’s Wetlands and their […]
Money-losing companies that went public in 2018 did better than profitable ones
In what looks like a classic sign of a “bubble”, public investors are valuing unprofitable companies higher than they are profitable ones that entered public stock exchanges last year. “Those are the findings from a new PitchBook report on the stock performance of US unicorns. The study looked at the median stock-price change for startups valued […]
Frontier market debt at a 15-year high
Oxford Economics says that thanks to aggressive bond investments from Chinese investors, public debt in frontier markets is at its highest level since 2004. “ More worrying still, the credit boom largely appears to have been wasted, with the countries that have borrowed the most having the lowest levels of investment, suggesting much of the […]
The Underground Railroad of North Korea
This is a thrilling read about the secret network of NGOs and brokers rescuing thousands of North Korean refugees through hidden and treacherous routes across China and South East Asia into South Korea. Doug Bock Clark, the author of ‘The Last Whalers’, has written this piece with the support of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. […]
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