Several of us in Marcellus squirrel away our modest savings for many years so that we can send our children to study in the US of A. However, this eye opening article from The Atlantic tells us something that many of us long suspected but dared not vocalize, namely, the best & the brightest American […]
Consumption patterns show that India’s urban middle class is suffering. We believe that there are 3 reasons for this: (a) In offices & factories, technology is replacing humans in jobs entailing routine work; (b) The Indian economy is in the early stages of a cyclical economic downturn; and (c) Household balance sheets in India appear […]
Investors tend to follow political developments particularly elections with great interest with the hope that they can align their portfolios to benefit from these developments. Implicit in this is an assumption that elections have a bearing on investment returns. The market’s rally since the elections reinforces that belief. But in this piece, Barry Ritholtz providing […]
It is not just middle class Indians who are having problems finding a mate. The great Indian bustard is also having a problem. So much so that it is now a critically endangered species. However, good old Indian jugaad has now been deployed to shore up the bustards numbers. Cherylann Mollan writes: “Wildlife officials in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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