Poll to poll
State electoral landscapes vary too widely to impact one another State elections in India are like separate races happening at different times, and what happens in one race doesn’t always affect what...
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State electoral landscapes vary too widely to impact one another It is misplaced to find clues to other state elections in J&K and Haryana outcomes. BJP’s triumph in Haryana is a boost. Congress’s...
View ArticleElephant whispers
Jumbos have as much of a right to walk the earth as humans. India must do a better job of conserving them It’s not for nothing that the elephant’s memory is much storied. Relative to...
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It is misplaced to find clues to other state elections in J&K and Haryana outcomes. BJP’s triumph in Haryana is a boost. Congress’s loss is a dampener. General elections are said to be an...
View ArticleLearning from history
In 1615 the English King, James I, sent Sir Thomas Roe, to the Mughal Court of Emperor Jehangir to successfully negotiate a commercial treaty that allowed the East India Company(EIC) exclusive rights...
View ArticleRatan Tata: The clock stopped – A Titan is no more
Ratan Tata’s passing is an incredibly sad moment not just for the Indian business community, but for our country. Ratan Tata was a beacon of integrity, ethical leadership and philanthropy, who left an...
View ArticleRatan Tata: The unmatched visionary who shaped India’s future and deserves...
In a country of over a billion people, few individuals shine as brightly as Sir Ratan Tata. A name synonymous with integrity, vision, and humility, Ratan Tata has been more than a titan of industry—he...
View ArticleBuilding bridges: In conversation with Anish Gawande
From breaking stereotypes to breaking new ground, NCP (SP)’s Anish Gawande weighs in on Politics, LGBTQIA+ Rights, and the Power of Inclusive Change In a political landscape that often seems like the...
View ArticleThought For Food
Meat production on the scale humans demand is unsustainable. Technology has a solution. Go for it Global food systems are unsustainable, we know. But it’s still shocking to find that food production is...
View Article**Why Only 1 Indian Brand in the Top 100?**
If you look at global brands, you’ll notice something interesting: aside from Tata, there aren’t any Indian companies in the world’s top 100 most valued brands. Ratan Tata did something special by...
View ArticleWhy Just 1 In Top 100?
Aside from Tatas, no Indian business is a global brand. Foreign acquisitions are not the answer Perhaps what is being most memorialised about Ratan Tata is how he put an Indian conglomerate on the...
View Article**Thought For Food**
The way we produce food today is causing big problems for the environment. Meat, especially, is something that we can’t keep producing in the same way because it uses too much land and hurts nature....
View ArticleIndo-Italian line
Among the many things the two countries have in common is their ingenious concept of forming a queue Again in Italy, Bunny and I feel very much at home. The feeling of homeliness is induced...
View ArticleLearning the art of renouncing and rejoicing
By Swami Sukhabodhananda The Bhagwad Gita’s message encompasses a twofold instruction: learn how to renounce and know how to rejoice. It emphasises the two ‘R’s – the art of renouncing and that of...
View ArticleRatan Tata: Decent, humble, humorous…But still a colossus
Ratan Tata’s passing leaves a significant void in the Indian business firmament. He possibly saved India’s largest and most respected business conglomerate from irrelevance and in the process became a...
View ArticleCracking a Machine Learning interview
It looks like the season for upskilling, reskilling, and job-switching, not necessarily in that order. I would say the following if asked to talk about machine learning in 649 words or 863 tokens. Of...
View ArticleSteady growth and upside inflation risks keep the repo rate intact
Amid the divergent views about the monetary policy move, RBI again opted to keep the repo rate intact at 6.5 percent. However, the stance of the policy has changed from ‘withdrawal of accommodation’ to...
View ArticleSynthetic data: The unsung hero or hidden villain of AI
In a bustling tech lab at a leading automotive company, a team of data and AI engineers was wrestling with a common but frustrating problem: a lack of adequate real world data to train their...
View ArticleWhy millennials hesitate to speak about mental health?
In the Mahabharata, Arjuna felt intense anxiety before the battle, and Yudhishthira sank into depression after winning because of the losses he endured. Siddhartha, son of a king who later became the...
View ArticleDussehra mission of the air warriors
When Wing Commander Vijay Prakash Bhatt offered to help preparations for the Indian Air Force’s historic and first of its kind 7000 km long car rally, it was to inspire youth to be an Air Warrior...
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