A couple of months ago, we featured a piece which talked about a new study which showed writing or drawing by hand as opposed to typing or using a computer involves more activity in the brain and hence has cognitive benefits. Now, a new book The Extinction of Experience: Reclaiming Our Humanity in a Digital World, extends that logic to […]
Chapter 4 of Marcellus’ bestselling book, Behold the Leviathan: The Unusual Rise of Modern India : Mukherjea, Saurabh, Rajhansa, Nandita: Amazon.in: Books , discusses the rise of Indian women, why they are increasingly better educated than men and increasingly wealthier than Indian men. This article in the Statesman highlights how women farmers are transforming agriculture […]
Occasionally during our travels, we encounter soldiers who have served or are serving in the ‘Chicken’s Neck’ i.e. that very thin strip of Indian land in the state of Bengal which links the rump of mainland India with its breathtakingly beautiful, resource rich and strategically important North-East. In fact, the Chicken’s Neck is a 60-kilometre […]
“Take a deep breath” is what is said to someone who is losing it or anxious. Does it really help? Empirically most of us would agree it does. But is there scientific evidence for the same and do we understand how exactly the human body reacts to controlled breathing and stress relief? Apparently, now we […]
As an investment professional, the most often question you get asked by social acquaintances and business channel anchors alike is ‘where are markets headed?’ despite plenty of evidence that it is futile to predict stock prices in the short run. Here’s a blog that shows that not only is it impossible to predict stock prices, […]
It is well understood now that India’s middle class is suffering (see, for example, our blog: https://marcellus.in/blogs/why-is-the-indian-middle-class-suffering/). As columnist and best-selling author says in this piece in the New Indian Express: “The middle class is stranded in a political muddle between oligarchs extracting rent and parties wrenching rent for votes.” However, an even more interesting […]
In recent years, The Athletic (now owned by NYT) has become a go-to site for sports fans globally for its very differentiated feature pieces on all things sport than just coverage of the action. Such as this piece on how AI could possibly shape the future of football. AI is becoming ubiquitous across many fields […]
In India we tend to be fond of regional stereotypes eg. the martial Sikh, the intellectual Bengali, the cunning Marwari, etc. And yet the most impactful Indians break free not just of their geographic origins, they also break free of whatever cultural stereotypes we might associate with them. In doing so, they profoundly influence the […]
If you have not yet been to the Brihadishvara Temple at Thanjavur, we would very strongly recommend a visit at the soonest to see one of India’s most magnificent temples. If you go on a moonlight night, the temple looks even more majestic. And if you can pull strings and see the 1500-year old paintings […]
The Indian middle class is losing ground not just to the super rich, but also to the poor. Over the past decade, the average annual income for the Indian middle class has stayed flat whereas that for the low-income group has grown at 4% p.a. Three sets of drivers have come together to squeeze the […]
The sustained rally in the American stock market has surprised many, raising calls of a bubble scenario or irrational exuberance. The naysayers use data points such as how whilst the American economy contributes 30% to world GDP yet its stockmarket makes up 75% of the global market capitalisation. This misses the point that some of […]
In this article, Soutik Biswas delves into the quirky origins of why American universities have the world’s best collections of books & manuscripts from India: “The 132-year-old University of Chicago houses more than 800,000 volumes related to South Asia, making it one of the world’s premier collections for studies on the region. But how did […]
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