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India needs to move government contracts from L1 to T1 format
September 11, 2022, 4:59 PM IST
As someone working in close proximity of the tender-driven public infrastructure space since three decades, I am developing a lot of sympathy for Nitin Gadkariji, as he is trying the almost-impossible, i.e., change the deeply…
September 11, 2022, 4:59 PM IST
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Open letter to Shree S Jaishankarji: We need to weaponise our growth, and NOW
September 7, 2022, 4:16 PM IST
Dear Sir, Holding the post of a cabinet minister in India is surely a dream of every politician, but I have little doubt that there is one ministerial berth that offers more brickbats than garlands,…
September 7, 2022, 4:16 PM IST
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Advaita: Beyond monotheism and polytheism
September 6, 2022, 10:53 AM IST
Very recently I had to suffer a management seminar trying what seems to be the new fad amongst the management Gurus, i.e., linking (and whereby insulting) the Indian scriptures and philosophical ideas with wealth creation….
September 6, 2022, 10:53 AM IST
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Indian cricket: Dealing with transition in the age of individual branding
September 2, 2022, 1:12 PM IST
After watching Kohli painfully gathering his 59 from 44 and then having Suryakumar Yadav hitting a few out of the park with ease to make 68 from 26 balls against the minnows of Netherlands, I…
September 2, 2022, 1:12 PM IST
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Nipping the opportunist/Jugad culture in the bud is a MUST to make Indian SME conquer the world
August 13, 2022, 1:33 PM IST
I have believed that the existing SME manufacturing sector of India is the most ideal sector for launching Indian growth story provided we can use the old framework of seasoned entrepreneurs and infuse the new…
August 13, 2022, 1:33 PM IST
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Fin(anci)al Diagnosis: Not health but a Fintech solution needed
August 8, 2022, 10:32 PM IST
Though any macroeconomics issue is far too complex to be simplified using couple of personal experiences, I strongly believe that the patterns observed in personal experiences are worth starting with to explore any macro-phenomena, as…
August 8, 2022, 10:32 PM IST
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Manufacturing mystery of India: Is Real Estate the culprit behind snail-paced growth?
August 4, 2022, 8:23 PM IST
Just a while back, I had the pleasure of listening to a discussion on a brilliant book on macroeconomics that yet again brought forth one of the key issues (or rather mysteries) of Indian growth story, i.e….
August 4, 2022, 8:23 PM IST
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Stress-Pangea and pandemics: Stress is not an emotion, it is also a biological niche
August 1, 2022, 12:15 PM IST
Just when we thought that we are done with one viral pandemic, we are back to the same seesaw ride in case of the monkeypox virus from the pox group (that once harbored (and now…
August 1, 2022, 12:15 PM IST
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Black swans plague in the world full of lies/greed amplifiers
July 28, 2022, 2:16 PM IST
The turmoil of the post-covid world is prompting some Pundits to claim that the black swan season may be opening soon, so I am tempted to explore the metaphor of black swan by paraphrasing Nassim…
July 28, 2022, 2:16 PM IST
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Who is this ‘Internet’ that is getting ‘shocked’?
July 6, 2022, 8:50 AM IST
I recently read this interesting headline, “Leopard Hunts Baby Monkey, Internet Shocked”. As a human being, I was always under the impression that we, the living beings had a monopoly over getting “shocked”, so the…
July 6, 2022, 8:50 AM IST
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Free Speech: The blood pressure of democracy that the Supreme Court needs to keep range-bound
July 5, 2022, 2:12 PM IST
The problem with social media is that it has completed its veni-vidi-vici well before anyone could understand its impact on systems and institutions and mitigate it. With monopoly of mass-communication broken and communication becoming completely…
July 5, 2022, 2:12 PM IST
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Flogging the dying horse of MSMEs in the age of the unicorns
July 4, 2022, 9:02 AM IST
We just passed World MSME Day last week. As a nation that has thriving MSME culture that too in undoubtedly the least MSME-friendly environment (as India is ranked 163rd among the 190 countries in Contract…
July 4, 2022, 9:02 AM IST
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Social Media: Neither a society, not a medium; it is just a “Lek”
June 29, 2022, 11:45 AM IST
Social media, as it is ambitiously referred to by all of us today is obviously neither social nor a media. If it was “social” in nature, it would have a lot of inhibition controlling the…
June 29, 2022, 11:45 AM IST
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Dear Doctors: Why you should and shouldn’t be writing for mass consumption
June 22, 2022, 11:35 AM IST
Dear Doctors, Every time I open a supplement of any of the leading newspapers of my city, my attention is drawn to various columns written by prominent “doctors”, including some who aren’t, but love to…
June 22, 2022, 11:35 AM IST
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Scientific superiority: The reason archeological excavations of ancient civilizations don’t unearth aircrafts and computers
June 20, 2022, 12:10 PM IST
One of the most entertaining methods for identifying scientific genius on social media, specifically from India is to put up a post appreciating anything from the Vedic era. Within ten minutes, such a post will…
June 20, 2022, 12:10 PM IST
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Business of sustainability: A new trap that favours only the large players
June 18, 2022, 12:26 PM IST
I was listening to a discussion on decarbonisation (a dire need for us if we don’t want to turn the planet hostile to us in very near future) organised by a group of top Indian…
June 18, 2022, 12:26 PM IST
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The curse of do-gooders: Number crunching for mental health awareness at policy and public level
June 17, 2022, 2:06 PM IST
The day I read the news of Ms. Deepika Padukone rushing to the hospital for tachycardia, I had anticipated the return of the theme of mental health awareness on social media, and I was quickly…
June 17, 2022, 2:06 PM IST
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Cyber-crime prevention in India: Barking up the wrong tree
June 14, 2022, 11:10 AM IST
If I open the SMS section of my phone and scan it, I can see almost one message a week from a fraudster that can lead to what we club under the mysterious label of…
June 14, 2022, 11:10 AM IST
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WTO Devil and the High-Sea Fishing
June 13, 2022, 10:09 AM IST
As most of us are landlubbers, the innocuous piece of “Indian fishermen protesting at Geneva” is surely not as attractive as “devastating real reason” for Angelina Jolie’s divorce with Brad Pitt, but if you are…
June 13, 2022, 10:09 AM IST
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Plea to the McCall MacBain Foundation to fund Nalanda-Takshshila Environmental (retrospective) Responsibility Index
June 11, 2022, 2:01 PM IST
Dear John and Marcy McCall MacBain, Thanks to the release of 2022 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) with the help fo the great Columbia and Yale universities, as both these universities have a connection with us….
June 11, 2022, 2:01 PM IST
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