Economy

3 R’s to 4C’s – Rethinking Education

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Susant can be described as literate but uneducated – for though he has a degree, in Engineering no less, his education hasn’t made him employable in any of the sectors that he would like to work in. Instead, he today earns a living by delivering food – an occupation without job security or prospects of…

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Understanding the New Economy

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One of the items that has been hogging business headlines the past few days has been the Zomato IPO. And it should, in terms of what it implies, not just for those who invest in the stock markets but for all of us. The estimated market capitalization of Zomato is Rs.60,000 crores while it could…

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Government in Business? A Contrarian View

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One of the most frequently asked questions that startup founders face from investors is – “What would you do if Google decided to do what you are planning to do?”. This is a trick question, for the purpose of the question is actually to see how the founder/s react when faced with insurmountable odds. Nowadays…

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Educating India – Challenges to Prepare For

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Over the last couple of weeks, I noticed a number of friends on Facebook applying a frame to their profile photograph saying they were proud to have studied in a government school. I do not know how this trend started, but it is a welcome one, for hopefully it will bring about a change, both…

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The Dark Side of Technology

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There’s a popular web series that’s playing currently on Netflix called Startup. It’s about three very different individuals – a corporate honcho, a Haitian thug and a brilliant Stanford dropout who are thrown together and create a new cryptocurrency. When they are cheated out of their company, they create a new darknet that is more…

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Treating India – Using Technology to Augment Healthcare

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One of the happiest memories of my younger days was watching M*A*S*H on TV. The show was based on the experiences of the doctors and nurses of a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the American military involvement in Korea. While it was mainly a humorous show focussed on a rebellious young doctor who hated the…

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The Power and Perils of Faith

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Even as the second wave of Covid-19 ebbs in India, our spirits are being battered almost every day with news of deaths – there seems to be no saying as to who emerges victorious and who loses the battle with the virus – young, old, fit, unfit, rich, poor, powerful or a common citizen, there…

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Leveraging the Crowd – When Strangers Step up

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It was a WhatsApp message from another young alumnus of my alma mater XIMB that brought Nikita’s request to my attention. Nikita and her husband Manoj were both recent alumni, and I was not connected directly with them. Manoj, a young professional working in the development sector is directly involved in the upliftment of vulnerable…

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Criticism – Accept, Stifle or Ignore?

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As a child, I remember feeling puzzled when reading about people being referred to as critics. I wondered why anyone would want to criticize something, and more importantly, why others not only allowed the critic to make unpleasant remarks, but actually paid him for doing so. As I grew older, I understood that the critics…

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What’s in a name? Quite a lot actually!

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When Shakespeare wrote the lines “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet” for Juliet’s soliloquy in Romeo and Juliet, he struck a chord – after all, a name is given for identification and does not necessarily give or describe attributes. However, in today’s day…

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