Given all the talk of deforestation, you would imagine that, by and large, every species that exists on this planet has already been discovered. And then ever so often, scientists discover a new species which so monstrously big that you are left wondering “how something so big could have remained undiscovered for long?”. This article […]
A few weeks ago following the election of Maldives’ new leader whose anti-India, pro-China foreign policy stance triggered a bit of a hue and cry in India about boycotting Maldives for tourism and instead promoting our very own Lakshwadeep which is endowed with similar pristine beauty. This fascinating article in The Mint shares how the […]
After a pretty strong run in the latter half of the last decade, the venture capital (VC) industry has come in for some flak, even becoming the subject of plenty of memes of social media when a lot of bets especially those made during the go go days immediately following Covid went horribly wrong. Here’s […]
For several decades now, Patrick Olivelle of the University of Texas at Austin, has been one of the most lucid exponents of how Indian history and religion interplays with each other. In this deeply moving piece he explains how key figures in Indian history have taken opposing stances on the same subject, namely, the use […]
Although India’s 20 most profitable listed companies (the ‘Megacaps’) account for around 50% of the profits generated by the BSE 500 companies, these Megacaps account for just 34% of the BSE500’s market cap (down from 41% a decade ago and 45% nearly two decades ago). Indian retail investors’ fascination with SmallCaps seems to be the […]
In this month’s Little Champs newsletter, we delve deeper into Rainbow Children’s Medicare (Rainbow), one of the new additions to the portfolio. Rainbow, founded in Hyderabad in 1999 by Dr Ramesh Kancharla, focusses only on pediatric and maternity care. The Company stands head & shoulders above its like-to-like peers on profitability and growth metrics and […]
Gary Cross is the professor of Modern History at Penn State University. In this piece, he raises an intriguing question in the context of modern American life but the question is equally applicable to middle class Indian life: “Output per worker increased by almost 300% between 1950 and 2018 in the US. The standard American […]
India’s history is incredibly interesting and full of surprises. Did you know that there exists a language which is written in Arabic script but the words are from Tamil? This language, Arwi, was spoken in the coastal towns of Tamilnadu and in Sri Lanka: “Arwi dates to the 8th Century CE when travel and trade in […]
Over the past year we have written several blogs about the rise in the fortunes of Indian women – urban & rural, skilled & unskilled – over the past decade (eg. The Rapid Rise of Female Entrepreneurs in India – Marcellus). Now, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has found that for rural women, NREGA has been […]
Earlier this week, India lost one of its most eminent jurists, Fali Nariman, aged 95. Obituaries continue to pour in for who was regarded a legend by the legal fraternity. For some of us unaware of his accomplishments in the courtroom and in public life, these obituaries have been an eye opener. But we have […]
With the significant decline in costs of producing solar and wind power, electrification is increasingly being looked at as a better solution than carbon capture and hydrogen to solve the world’s climate change problems. Automobiles are headed the electric way but this article shows why even heavy polluting industries such as chemicals, steel, cement, etc […]
Li Lu is best known as the fund manager who the great Charlie Munger himself trusted with his investments. The 3L&3S featured the incredible backstory to Lu’s life here. This one is a translated speech that Li Lu gave to students at a Chinese business school back in 2019. This speech apparently is a follow up […]
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