Summer is a great time for a sports fan as most leagues reach their crescendos. This summer would be a particularly happy one for fans of RCB or Arsenal. Even better if like some of us, you support both. Like RCB which first won the IPL last year after 18 years, Arsenal fans have had […]
A fortnight ago, India’s pharma industry enhanced its reputation. From just being seeing as the pill factory of the world which copies drugs discovered in the West, India produced for the first time a new chemical entity (NCE) approved by the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA). The firm that pulled off this breakthrough is […]
In this forceful piece, Devdutt Pattanaik calls out Indian society’s tendency to reframe history to suit modern prejudices and convenience. Mr Pattanaik uses specific episodes from the Ramayana to make his case. “When Sita is banished to the forest while pregnant, on the basis of nothing more than public gossip, modern readers recoil. Many quickly […]
In the past, we have featured the work of French social theorist – Rene Girard, whose work on mimetic desires has driven a whole body of work in sociology, to help us understand why we want what we want. Luke Burgis built on Girard’s work in his bookWanting and writes a lovely newsletter called Anti-Mimetic. […]
In our recent trip to China, whilst we were thoroughly impressed with the dynamism of Chinese business and efficiency of the state, we couldn’t fully comprehend where India fell short. This blog from David Oks provides an angle from history around human development and social reform – how the two countries diverged on these aspects. […]
In our latest bestseller, “Breakpoint: The Crisis of the Middle Class & The Future of Work” we provide evidence that an Indian university degree neither increases the pay of an Indian graduate (in fact, it does the opposite) nor the probability of employment. In fact, the unemployment rate for graduates in India is 10x that […]
Silicon Valley gets a lot of flak for monopolising businesses and profit mongering. But they do use their technological prowess to solve some of humanity’s pressing problems. Google stands out among them. Its’ parent Alphabet has invested in several initiatives, most notably its AI subsidiary Deepmind which came up with protein structure prediction which opens […]
Praetorian Capital is a hedge fund run by Harris Kupperman, who also writes this wonderful investment blog called Kuppy’s Korner. His blog titled ‘Global crossing reborn’ went viral last year as he likened the current hyperscalers’ mad rush to spending hundreds of billions on AI data centers to the spend on telecom and networking infrastructure […]
You can judge a city by its bookshops. The lack of bookshops in East Delhi or suburban Mumbai speaks of an urban landscape where people are so engrossed in day-to-day survival that visiting a bookshop is a luxury they can’t afford. On the other hand, the multitude of excellent bookshops in central Bangalore speaks of […]
“What cannot be measured cannot be managed or improved upon” is a common mantra we hear often, not just in the professional context but also among fitness enthusiasts with wearables measuring everything from glycaemic index to sleep quality. But there’s also the good old Goodhart’s Law which states that “When a measure becomes a target, […]
This is a superb essay on how the normal course of life wrecks our creativity and with that our chances of doing something useful in life. The author, Henrik Karlsson, used to be a programmer and then worked in an art gallery. Now he & his wife Johanna live “on a windswept island in the […]
If you haven’t visited Delhi in April-May in recent years, you have missed out on experiencing 50 degree Celsius. While office bound folks like us are reduced to little more than panting dogs by Delhi’s summer heat, there are millions of individuals across north India who have bear even more intense heat combined with smoke […]
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