Marcellus India Wealth Survey 2025 Indian Affluents & HNIs – So Near, Yet So Far….
India’s wealthy aspire to retire early, start businesses, and fund children’s futures, but lack the roadmap to get there. Marcellus, in collaboration with Dun & Bradstreet, conducted the ‘India Wealth Survey 2025’—an in-depth study capturing the evolving financial behaviours, asset preferences, aspirations, and preparedness of affluent and high-net-worth individuals (HNIs) across India. The survey was […]
Short read: Baccalaureate remarks at Princeton University
The US central bank, the Federal Reserve’s chairperson Jerome Powell has had to deal with a lot in the American and global economy during his tenure, ranging from a global pandemic requiring a massive expansion in the Fed’s balance sheet to its subsequent unwind and the sharpest rise in interest rates in four decades and […]
Short read: How golden ages really start—and end
Plenty has been written about the changing world order, most famously by investor Ray Dalio in a book titled as such, highlighting the end of America’s global supremacy. Such thinking has preceded Trump’s chaotic second presidency as well but Trump’s recent policies especially on trade only seem to be accelerating this change. This is a […]
Short read: The physics behind Hardik Pandya’s curved bat that enables his signature no-look sixes
If you suspected that the nonstop six hitting wunderkinds of the IPL are not really better batters than the preceding generation of cricketers, they just have better technology, then this is the article for you. Through a series of revealing graphics Nihal Koshie & Sandeep Dwiwedi of The Express show you how dramatically bats have […]
Long read: How Apple helped China become America’s biggest tech rival
Earlier this week, Trump was offended by a journalist’s remark on TACO trade. TACO stood for ‘Trump Always Chickens Out’ with reference to his pulling back on tariff threats, most notably with China. Reports suggest it was a result of Apple’s lobbying given its dependence on Chinese production. How serious is this dependence after all […]
Long read: Why money and power affect male self-esteem
In Chapter 4 of our bestselling book “Behold the Leviathan: The Unusual Rise of Modern India” we highlight the vertiginous rise of Indian women in academics, entrepreneurship and in the workplace. As a result of this, Indian women usually have more money and have more assets under management than their husbands and increasingly earn more […]
Long read: The India-Pakistan Conflict is Testing the Threshold for Nuclear War
Most people we have met in Delhi and in America over the past fortnight agree that it was Pakistan’s playing of the nuclear card that triggered America’s abrupt intervention in the recent Indo-Pak conflict. This piece in Bloomberg explains how Pakistan played the nuclear card in a way that hadn’t been done before by any […]
The Fourth Commandment: Embrace Failure
Summary: Failure & success are like summer & winter i.e., they are a routine part of business life and should not be a source of exultation or heartburn. In fact, failure is an essential milestone en route to acquiring skills & learning along the way. To find out what the Ten Commandments of Indian Entrepreneurship […]
Asset Class Diversification in Investing: Like a Well-Balanced Wholesome Meal
Ever been out to dinner at a restaurant and ordered just Paneer? No rice or breads – just a few servings of the famous chef-special Paneer Special? Probably not. A fulfilling wholesome meal needs a variety of food to balance flavours, textures and nutrition. So does your investment portfolio. Think of your portfolio like a […]
Short read: India’s Banu Mushtaq makes history with International Booker win
For the second time in three years, an Indian author has won the International Booker prize. Unlike the Booker prize which is awarded to authors whose works are in English, the International Booker Prize includes works translated into English from other languages. Geetanjali Sree, a Hindi author won the prize in 2022. This year, it […]
Short read: Gretchen Rubin: One sentence can change your life
Gretchen Rubin is one of the world’s most influential psychologists and she has written several outstanding books such as “The Happiness Project” and “Better than Before: How to Make and Break Habits and build a Happier Life”. Her latest book is titled “The Secrets of Adulthood”. In this interview she tells the BBC that: “There’s […]
Short read: How Kolkata improved its air quality within 6 years
Until a few years ago, those of us who are regular visitors to the City of Joy believed that it deserved to be right up there with Delhi as one of the most polluted cities in India. Now, things have changed for the better. Adrija Datta writes for the Indian Express: “Over a span of […]
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