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  • Experiential, immersive, and unstoppable

    May 1, 2025, 1:04 AM IST

    From curated to experiential to immersive, the world seems to be full of superlatives nowadays. Gone are the days when the annual holidays meant travelling to ones’ maternal/paternal places and spend summer vacations with near…

    May 1, 2025, 1:04 AM IST

  • Know your customer

    April 24, 2025, 10:15 PM IST

    Gone are the days when you visited your bank’s branch a few times and you were known to the guard at the entry, its teller, and maybe the branch manager too. Same applied to other…

    April 24, 2025, 10:15 PM IST

  • A notebook case of success

    April 16, 2025, 10:35 PM IST

    I may have several delusions about myself but the fact that I was, and am, academically mediocre was never in doubt. And I always blamed myself for not putting in the required efforts when it…

    April 16, 2025, 10:35 PM IST

  • Copy + paste and repeat

    April 4, 2025, 10:52 AM IST

    The news about the economic surveys of a state being largely a copy-paste job with numerous sections verbatim repeat of yesteryears’ reports was met with a widespread derision. But should it be? Some deep insights…

    April 4, 2025, 10:52 AM IST

  • Summits and investments

    February 7, 2025, 9:56 PM IST

    Whatever may be the differences otherwise among them, one area where every state in the country seems to be excelling is those “business investment summits.” On almost a regular frequency one gets to learn about…

    February 7, 2025, 9:56 PM IST

  • Outage of intelligence

    January 24, 2025, 8:42 PM IST

    That homo sapiens had already given up taxing their natural intelligence was no more a newsworthy occurrence. No, the newsworthy story of the day pertained to the outage of ChatGPT. And since people worldwide depend…

    January 24, 2025, 8:42 PM IST

  • Freebies to be or not to be

    January 17, 2025, 9:57 PM IST

    In view of increasingly aggressive competitive welfarism and law of diminishing returns staring them in the face, strategists of political parties were in huddle. They were asked to suggest new vote-catching promises to be included…

    January 17, 2025, 9:57 PM IST

  • The Summit Times

    December 15, 2024, 9:58 PM IST

    There was a time when the salubrious period between November to March used to be the `conference’ time in Delhi. It, of course, was a prehistoric, pre-GRAP/AQI era. But how the times have changed! Now…

    December 15, 2024, 9:58 PM IST

  • Napkins, garages, and startups

    November 11, 2024, 10:44 PM IST

    Reading recently about how an Indian student at Wharton signed his first deal to bring Trump Towers to India on the back of a cocktail napkin brought back the focus on the central role these…

    November 11, 2024, 10:44 PM IST

  • We are already ‘viksit’

    September 12, 2024, 9:15 PM IST

    Looking at the presidential campaign in the US around (their) burning issues like high cost of child care and that of the elderly population, lowering the costs of renting and owning a home, etc., makes…

    September 12, 2024, 9:15 PM IST

  • The new age social engineering

    August 27, 2024, 11:12 PM IST

    Taking a serious note of LoP’s public statement “I checked the list of Miss India to see if there would be any Dalit or tribal woman in it, but there was no women from Dalit,…

    August 27, 2024, 11:12 PM IST

  • Camouflaged delinquency

    August 19, 2024, 6:19 PM IST

    With the announcement of the assembly elections in Haryana, the famed `Moral Code of Conduct’ will remain in force till October 4 or so. Taken together with the moral code of conduct in force during…

    August 19, 2024, 6:19 PM IST

  • A sanity-insanity inversion

    August 2, 2024, 5:45 PM IST

    Ever since a departmental inquiry officially concluded a fast-moving SUV to be the primary reason for that unfortunate drowning incident in a basement library, it seemed to have opened up the flood gates (pun unintended)….

    August 2, 2024, 5:45 PM IST

  • User experience in the technology age

    July 22, 2024, 10:51 PM IST

    The realization that the new technology cares deeply about my well being dawned on me recently when even after repeated attempts, I was unable to increase the volume of my Bluetooth-connected speaker. Here was Rafi…

    July 22, 2024, 10:51 PM IST

  • The ageless politics

    July 10, 2024, 3:26 PM IST

    A climax that turned out to be worse than an anti-climax, even from modernist Hollywood movie standards. Yes, we are talking about the debate between POTUS (President of the United States) and the ex-POTUS. The…

    July 10, 2024, 3:26 PM IST

  • Desultory desilting & a national pastime

    July 3, 2024, 12:34 AM IST

    Going by the newspaper reports before monsoon approach the Indian cities, one gets a sense how hard the urban local bodies, the municipalities, are working to ensure that the citizens do not have to face…

    July 3, 2024, 12:34 AM IST

  • The first world deprivation

    June 17, 2024, 10:00 PM IST

    As they say, it’s all about the point of reference. Afterall POV distinguishes the first world deprivation from that experienced by third world, sorry, the developing countries. Just imagine, poor Sunak recalling the hardships he…

    June 17, 2024, 10:00 PM IST

  • Profundity in simplicity

    May 27, 2024, 9:09 AM IST

    “Profundity is not complexity; it is simplicity.” Bruce H. Wilkinson, The Seven Laws of the Learner: How to Teach Almost Anything to Practically Anyone.  Trust a body dealing with juvenility to come to the rescue…

    May 27, 2024, 9:09 AM IST

  • Nudge nudge: Don’t astray too far

    May 20, 2024, 9:27 PM IST

    As the old adage goes, `Don’t ignore words of wisdom’. The grapevine is that certain banks and vigilant agencies are letting drop not so subtle hints to discourage affluent Indians planning opulent weddings abroad. No,…

    May 20, 2024, 9:27 PM IST

  • Lesser Citizens

    May 10, 2024, 4:56 PM IST

    A baby-formula by a transnational company has been in the news recently for its sugar content in India vis-à-vis that being sold in the developed countries. While it resulted in justifiable indignation in the country,…

    May 10, 2024, 4:56 PM IST

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