“Buy when there’s blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own.” That gem is credited to Baron Nathan Rothschild, a member of the legendary, eponymous banking family. And that wasn’t just a smart quip. He lived by it. The Baron invested while the Battle of Waterloo was raging. He profited handsomely after…
Harish Rana has been in a coma-like state for 13 years. During this time, his parents loved him and cared for him every day. But they also asked the courts many times for permission to stop the medical tubes that were keeping him alive. They felt it was kinder to let him go peacefully. Supreme…
GOI says there is no shortage of cooking gas (LPG). But many people say something different. Some gas cylinders are being sold for twice the official price. This usually means a black market has appeared. Why is this happening? Recently, GOI reduced LPG supply to restaurants and other commercial kitchens. The idea was simple: until…
Our liberties make us & society stronger. Groupthink doesn’t. But state & even some courts don’t get it Harish Rana has been in a vegetative state for 13 years. All this while, his parents have loved him, cared for him. For years, they have also pleaded for permission to withdraw the tubes clinically feeding him….
For years, India’s digital growth story came with a silent footnote: the faster we moved money, the faster criminals went after it. As transactions accelerated through UPI, fintech apps and instant payments, so did the sophistication of fraud. Now, for the first time in years, there is evidence that the state is not merely reacting;…
At a time when millions of people around the world struggle with poverty, food insecurity, lack of education, and inadequate health care, a new war has once again engulfed the Middle East. This war did not emerge from a collective decision of the international community. It began when the United States and Israel launched coordinated…
Feed your brain fine things, the result will be resilience. Feed it junk, you’ll grow sillier by the minute Dalgona coffee. Sourdough bread. Craftcore. Retro bingeing Malgudi Days and Mad Men. Rereading Ghalib and Premchand, Austen and Shakespeare. These were some of the ways we sought distraction during Covid. Today, there is a war going…
Hello and welcome to another edition of the Weekly Vine. This week we explain why ‘oil’ is not well, decode why Trump is the Jungian composite of other US presidents, and finally discuss the tyranny of choice at 35,000 feet. Oil not well The modern world runs on three liquids: water, coffee and crude…
Amit Kumar Amit Kumar was trained as a Mechanical Engineer with specialization in thermal engineering from the University of Roorkee (now Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee) where he was awarded the University Gold Medal. Post his graduation, he decided to pursue a career in renewable energy, a novelty in the early eighties. He had retired…
When we talk about economic growth in India, the conversation usually gravitates toward expressways, industrial corridors, semiconductor plants, logistics parks and many other such key aspects. Rarely do we begin with waste. Yet, in my experience running a waste management company that operates across multiple cities and countries, the real test of an urban economy…