Free from the future
By Andrew Cohen While most of us want to be free, there is a part of us that is terrified at the prospect. You have to be willing to make a choice. So many seekers...
View ArticleRunup to ’19: PM wishes to clear backlog!
Does Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speech offer clues regarding the thrust of the plank on which he will approach people in 2019? What can one read into the fact that unlike the two...
View ArticleHow India was shaped from being a risky venture to a startup destination
By Bharati Jacob According to historian Ramachandra Guha, no venture capitalist would have funded a startup called India in 1947, as it was then avery risky venture. But here we are in 2016 — a...
View ArticleAre you tired of hiring the wrong people?
By Rajeev Banduni You have an idea and believe it will work. You invest money, make a prototype, test it in the market, hire a team, and progress into a series of funding, scaling, and...
View ArticleGST: Not just a tax reform, but real black money law
By Sachin Menon Much has been written about black money and its ill effects on the Indian economy and society in the last so many years. Efforts were made to bring back money, stashed in...
View ArticlePM Modi’s Swachh Bharat Mission is slowly but surely removing the scourge of...
By Parameswaran Iyer The month of August is special as it marks India’s freedom from British rule. August further provides an impetus to reflect on the remaining ‘freedom battles’ to be won. A...
View ArticleFor double-digit GDP growth, it will be critical to boost infrastructure growth
By Rana Kapoor Over the last two years, the Indian economy has unequivocally emerged as a safe haven, displaying unmatched macroeconomic stability amid rising global economic and geopolitical...
View ArticlePart-time founder
By Patrick McGinnis There’s this mythology and culture around entrepreneurship that’s like if you’re not eating ramen and living in a box on the side of the road, you’re not committed, right? That...
View ArticleMeaning of birthdays
By Sant Rajinder Singh People are happy on their birthdays. We should consider every day as our birthday. When we go to sleep at night, we do not know if we will awaken the next...
View ArticleThe Azim Premji I know
By NR Narayana Murthy The first time I met Azim, I was working at Patni Computer Systems as head of the Software Group. My boss, Ashok Patni, is the best boss I have ever had....
View ArticleBusting myths about corporate bond market
By V Srinivasan Come August 25, the corporate bond (CB) market is likely to get invigorated with the most potent dose of ‘magic potion’ — a slew of measures by RBI governor Raghuram Rajan before he...
View ArticleTeachings of Zarathushtra
By Aban Bana The religion of Zarathushtra promotes the living of life in accordance with the concepts of truth, purity and righteousness. Upholding personal cleanliness and that of the environment is...
View ArticleCurrent account
By Timothy Geithner By the summer of 2007, the subprime market was imploding. Borrowers with ‘no-doc loans’ (without proof of income) and ‘liar loans’ (with inflated claims about income) and ‘NINJA...
View ArticleRio Olympics: Please start following sports, not stars
By Joy Bhattacharjya It’s that time of the year. Every four years actually, when long editorials and now equally lengthy Facebook updates will go on and on about our total inability to win Olympic...
View ArticleIn 21st-century India, the world of middleman is shaken but not destroyed
By Anuvab Pal There is a profession in India, a respected one, of creating a profession out of nothing. The respectable term for this is ‘middlemen’. The disrespectful term is ‘people who know people’....
View ArticleSolutions software
By Jake Knapp When you’re in abstract land, you’re talking about what might happen when your project is finished, how you think your customers might react. If you’re doing software, there’s an...
View ArticleAloha and Pranaam
By P Venkatesh Oneness often manifests itself in similarities in the spiritual values of geographically distant cultures. Cultures depict individual flavours in language and tradition, yet they echo...
View ArticleIf MPs could spare a thought for farmers in GST
By Ajay Vir Jakhar NEW DELHI: Failures of policies to achieve objectives are commonly attributed to implementation hurdles. Policies primarily fail to deliver because at the designing stage the...
View ArticleWhy doesn’t everyone learn from failure?
By Abhijit Bhaduri Have you ever noticed that we only invite successful people to talk about failure and the lessons they learned during that process? Do we learn more from our failures than our...
View ArticleValuation crunches don’t have to be e-commerce industry’s poison pill
By Vivek Singla It’s no secret that the Indian etail ecosystem is passing through a rough patch. Mounting losses, increasing competition from global majors, emerging threat of unified activism from...
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