Published on 12 May, 2019
Why radical transparency about salaries can pay off...
The iconoclastic hedge fund manager, Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates emphasised about ‘radical transparency’ in...
Published on 12 May, 2019
The iconoclastic hedge fund manager, Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates emphasised about ‘radical transparency’ in...
Published on 12 May, 2019
In his latest blog, my colleague Saurabh Mukherjea writes about “The Tussle Between What we “Should do” &...
Published on 12 May, 2019
It was about time someone brought the ‘middle income trap’ risk back to the front and centre of the discourse on...
Published on 12 May, 2019
This unusual and interesting article is a review of two books on kidnapping. These books are ‘We Want to Negotiate:...
Published on 12 May, 2019
Millions of people dread sitting in the dentist’s chair and most of them can’t bear the sound of the dentist’s...
Published on 12 May, 2019
Vanguard, the world’s second largest fund management house, continues to astound. Not contend with becoming a giant...
Published on 05 May, 2019
Farnam Street’s reiteration of its 2014 blog about a concept that we encounter everyday in our interactions with...
Published on 05 May, 2019
Twin pieces with the latter cross-referencing the former, together summarising the point that China’s Belt and Road...
Published on 05 May, 2019
This FT article explains how our gender stereotypes influence women to think about the most appropriate course of...
Published on 05 May, 2019
A brilliantly articulated and constructive piece from the Nobel winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, in conversation with...
Published on 05 May, 2019
Once the home of rockstar VCs such as Vinod Khosla this Fortune article contends that legendary VC firm, Kleiner...
Published on 05 May, 2019
Insightful as ever, Morgan Housel takes us on a tour of the lesser known – but just as deadly – behavioural finance...
Published on 28 Apr, 2019
Much is being written about disruptions in banking from fintech. Yet this piece suggests that the traditional banks...
Published on 28 Apr, 2019
Most smartphone users can barely read a 1000 word essay without getting distracted or switching the screen a few times....
Published on 28 Apr, 2019
From our (limited) knowledge of American Football we know that the quarterback is the key player (filling the role of a...
Published on 28 Apr, 2019
This article quantifies what many of us have seen happening in our lives (or in the lives of our better halves). “At...
Published on 28 Apr, 2019
20 years ago for many non-Israelis, Israel looked like a strange country – a country created from the ravages of...
Published on 28 Apr, 2019
Megan Tobias Neely, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University, tries to...
Published on 28 Apr, 2019
Last week, we wrote about the disruptions caused by the millenials’ changing attitude towards real estate ownership...
Published on 28 Apr, 2019
Charlie Munger had said in 1986 that there is a reason why Charles Darwin achieved extraordinary things without an...
Published on 28 Apr, 2019
Ram Guha, himself a giant amongst contemporary scholars, makes a case for seeing Rabindranath Tagore as one of the...
Published on 28 Apr, 2019
Monica Prasad, a professor of sociology at Northwestern, discusses tax structures of various countries and its impact...
Published on 21 Apr, 2019
After enough research to show marijuana or cannabis or good old pot is now less harmful than tobacco and alcohol,...
Published on 21 Apr, 2019
This remarkable article from the NYT raises a toast to those who first fail in the great capitalist race to become rich...
Published on 14 Apr, 2019
A beautiful piece on customer service, especially the role of customer communication when it comes to handling...
Published on 14 Apr, 2019
At Marcellus, we like the idea of using a mixture of quantitative and qualitative methods for identifying firms with...
Published on 14 Apr, 2019
All of us live with the knowledge the living in HK or London or even Bandra is an expensive affair. Many of us have...
Published on 14 Apr, 2019
Zip manufacturing is not the most often discussed industries in investor forums. Yet this article brings out some key...
Published on 14 Apr, 2019
Individuals’ right to privacy is one of the most intensely debated issues around the globe as technology has blurred...
Published on 14 Apr, 2019
This is an interesting and rewarding long read from an investment advisory firm in Houston. The article uses the stats...
Published on 07 Apr, 2019
As scores of people across the world take to meditation as a tool to enhance mental health, this interview with David...
Published on 07 Apr, 2019
Whilst India goes through its own debate over beef, it is intriguing to know that for over 12 centuries, meat eating...
Published on 07 Apr, 2019
Kolkata is witnessing a new type of theatre. Called site-specific theatre, these are plays which are staged in the...
Published on 07 Apr, 2019
Chinese mobile handset manufacturers dominating the Indian mobile devices market was not surprising given their...
Published on 07 Apr, 2019
The article begins with a description of Dr Devi Shetty, the founder & promoter of Narayana Hrudayalaya – a chain...
Published on 07 Apr, 2019
In 1988, David Shaw, a computer science professor in Columbia University created a small company above a bookshop –...
Published on 31 Mar, 2019
Technology is changing the way we interact and communicate with each other and Instagram is fast becoming the preferred...
Published on 31 Mar, 2019
India draws a third of its water from aquifers. However, these aquifers are depleting at a rapid rate. “Most of the...
Published on 31 Mar, 2019
In what looks like a classic sign of a “bubble”, public investors are valuing unprofitable companies higher than...
Published on 31 Mar, 2019
Oxford Economics says that thanks to aggressive bond investments from Chinese investors, public debt in frontier...
Published on 31 Mar, 2019
This is a thrilling read about the secret network of NGOs and brokers rescuing thousands of North Korean refugees...
Published on 31 Mar, 2019
Since the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2018, data privacy and misuse of data are among the key concerns for...
Published on 24 Mar, 2019
When one of our readers sent this article to us, I immediately forwarded it to the missus to score a point in the...
Published on 24 Mar, 2019
When we are young, we want to do something creative, something fun in our lives. As we grow older, other considerations...
Published on 24 Mar, 2019
The article describes a remarkable exchange of letters between Irishman Alan Joyce is the CEO of Qantas Airways and 10...
Published on 24 Mar, 2019
Most of us would have observed and pondered over the effects of social media on various aspects of the society and...
Published on 24 Mar, 2019
Most of us in urban India often find it frustratingly amusing that how our kids can patiently respond in English to our...
Published on 24 Mar, 2019
This story profiles Charlie Santore, a 48-year-old safecracker licensed in the city of Los Angeles. Charlie operates...
Published on 17 Mar, 2019
This perceptive piece from Wolfgang Munchau underscores just how powerful China has become relative to almost every...
Published on 17 Mar, 2019
This piece was written before Trump grounded the 737 Max’s in America but most other countries had. Still, John...
Published on 17 Mar, 2019
As lifespans increase, there is good chance that many of us will live into our 90s. This is going to create new avenues...
Published on 17 Mar, 2019
With wireless internet becoming ubiquitous, most of us are oblivious to the fact that much of the data criss-crossing...
Published on 17 Mar, 2019
In the wake of last week’s American college admissions scandal (which ironically was brought to light thanks to...
Published on 17 Mar, 2019
Parents are now spending serious time and effort get their kids’ images online from the time they are toddlers. Even...
Published on 03 Mar, 2019
With Uber deciding to sell Uber Eats India to Swiggy for a stake in the latter, the food delivery space in India is...
Published on 03 Mar, 2019
A year ago, former Poker world champion, Annie Duke, published a superb book where she warned against the dangers of...
Published on 03 Mar, 2019
A superb piece from Charles Duhigg about what leads to job satisfaction. Charles, a Pullitzer prize winner and the...
Published on 03 Mar, 2019
Morgan Housel may not come up with radically original thinking in everything he writes but he does have a special skill...
Published on 03 Mar, 2019
Microbiomes are the trillions of microbes inside the healthy human body. This arresting New York Times article says...
Published on 17 Feb, 2019
Vrinda Shukla in her beautiful and eye-opening article questions the definition of backwardness. Vrinda shares her...
Published on 17 Feb, 2019
Morgan Housel uses the energy efficiency analogy to bring out the point that we have a better shot at securing our...
Published on 17 Feb, 2019
In our quest to become smarter, many of us have to taken to using books, apps and trainers. In this piece, Anjana Ahuja...
Published on 17 Feb, 2019
Office goers, says this column in The Economist, can be split into two groups. The first tribe are called FOMO: people...
Published on 17 Feb, 2019
The Indian Government’s proposed amendment to the IT act to regulate content on social media and messaging platforms...
Published on 17 Feb, 2019
A six year old article but a fascinating one nonetheless about the science that gets us addicted to junk food. Michael...
Published on 17 Feb, 2019
25 years ago Samuel Huntington had taught those who read his controversial book “The Class of Civilisations and the...
Published on 10 Feb, 2019
In his succinct article, John discusses the adverse impact that consumption led growth has put on the environment and...
Published on 10 Feb, 2019
Eileen Murray, the co-chief executive officer of Bridgewater Associates, spoke at a hedge fund conference this week,...
Published on 10 Feb, 2019
Gideon Rachman raises the question whether Britain’s vote for Brexit and America’s election of Donald Trump are a...
Published on 10 Feb, 2019
This remarkable FT article takes us into the world ultra-long distance running where the results show that women...
Published on 10 Feb, 2019
In an interesting new book called “White Identity Politics”, American political scientist Ashley Jardina of Duke...
Published on 03 Feb, 2019
In his article, Rana Foroohar beautifully captures the downside of massive growth in the number of...
Published on 03 Feb, 2019
Part of the fun of reading the legendary strategist Russell Napier is that we are reminded that we have so much more to...
Published on 03 Feb, 2019
Priya Ramani, the Mint columnist whose spunk catalysed the “Me Too” movement in India last year, profiles a very...
Published on 03 Feb, 2019
Morgan Housel distils the post war US economy into this lucid piece which brilliantly converges the discourse towards...
Published on 03 Feb, 2019
Part of India’s renaissance is ordinary people making extraordinary efforts to life of the people around them. This,...
Published on 03 Feb, 2019
A pioneer in investigative journalism in India, Sucheta Dalal, has written a thought provoking piece on what is...