Published on 20 Jan, 2019
Why you gotta love Jasprit Bumrah...
Rohit Brijnath is the sort of sportswriter who can make a sportslover love sport even more. But this one is about...
Jan 2019
- Week 3
- Week 2
- Week 1
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Published on 20 Jan, 2019
Jack Bogle: the selfless preacher of the passive revolu...
We had to pay our respects. And the FT Editorial does the job in a nice, succinct way. Jack Bogle, the father of...
Published on 20 Jan, 2019
Robots will help Chinese firms cope with wages and the ...
Esquel, a Chinese company, is a leading manufacturer of shirts for Western brands like Hugo Boss and Tommy Hilfiger and...
Published on 20 Jan, 2019
Volatility: how ‘algos’ changed the rhythm of the m...
The single most frequently asked question to a stock market professional is “where do you think the markets are...
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Published on 20 Jan, 2019
I saw the making of Cheteshwar Pujara...
From patience in maths to patience in life and on the cricket field, this outstanding piece on Cheteshwar Pujara has to...
Published on 20 Jan, 2019
Shareholders dethroned as rulers of value...
In this sublime essay, John Plender explains how capitalism has changed in the last 100 years and the implications it...
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Published on 13 Jan, 2019
Why people prefer bad news...
The article reinforces the subject of “Factfulness”, the refreshingly positive and fascinating book by the late Dr...
Published on 13 Jan, 2019
Oat milk sales surge as more consumers go dairy-free...
Milk from cows or from soya beans or almonds is passe. The new fad is milk from oats. “The scramble for oat milk is...
Published on 13 Jan, 2019
WhatsApp’s child porn problem: Google and Facebook’...
In case you thought that the worst thing about social media is that it allows facists and religious fundamentals to...
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Published on 13 Jan, 2019
IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle...
More of Taleb this week, this one is by Taleb. In his usual scathingly critical style, he has a go at psychologists and...
Published on 13 Jan, 2019
Bitter Bill – India’s transgender community is goin...
In case you are on those people who spends her waking hours worrying what will happen in the next General Election or...
Published on 13 Jan, 2019
Blowing up – How Nassim Taleb turned the inevitabilit...
“Taleb runs Empirica Capital out of an anonymous concrete office park in the woods on the outskirts of Greenwich,...
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Published on 06 Jan, 2019
Retreat from private infrastructure projects...
20 years ago there was lots of discussion in India about how to attract more private sector investment in...
Published on 06 Jan, 2019
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE / MACHINE LEARNING – Powerful...
“In India, approximately 74,000 women die from cervical cancer every year, accounting for 1/3rd of the burden of...
Published on 06 Jan, 2019
Climate Change Drives Fish Into New Waters, Remaking an...
The fishing grounds are shifting northward as water temperatures rise, forcing crews to retool their boats and rework...
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Published on 06 Jan, 2019
Intellectual humility – the importance of knowing you...
A paradoxical attempt by Brian Resnick to bat for intellectual humility especially among social scientists backed by...
Published on 06 Jan, 2019
Beyond the bottom line: should business put purpose bef...
A fairly balanced and constructive debate around the need for ‘purposeful capitalism’, that can even carry the most...
Published on 06 Jan, 2019
Too rich to jail...
Maureen Dowd says that the rise of populist politicians like Trump is due to the failure of the American political...
Dec 2018
- Week 5
- Week 4
- Week 3
- Week 2
- Week 1
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Published on 30 Dec, 2018
My life as an oracle...
An introspective piece by Gideon Rachman, arguably one of the best commentators on geopolitics. The introspection...
Published on 30 Dec, 2018
Wedding excess has reached giddy new heights...
John Gapper helps us understand why intelligent, rich people like Isha Ambani and Priyanka Chopra spend so much money...
Published on 30 Dec, 2018
People who exercise have different proteins moving thro...
We know that people who exercise are healthier and live longer. What we don’t know is why is there a link between...
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Published on 30 Dec, 2018
How the Surprise New Interactive Black Mirror Came Toge...
For the uninitiated, Black Mirror is a futuristic series on Netflix about the dark side of mankind’s advances in...
Published on 30 Dec, 2018
How McKinsey has helped raise the stature of authoritar...
This year McKinsey’s annual retreat for its busy consultants was in Kashgar in China, a country which McKinsey, like...
Published on 30 Dec, 2018
Why you should care about the Nate Silver vs. Nassim Ta...
In case you have not heard about Nate Silver, here is the bluffer’s guide. “Nate Silver is the co-founder of...
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Published on 23 Dec, 2018
What Our Elitist Reaction to the Zomato Delivery Man Te...
A video uploaded on Twitter showed a Zomato delivery rider eating the customer’s order before proceeding with his...
Published on 23 Dec, 2018
FT big read – India: The most polluted place on earth...
This graphics rich FT article shows why those who live in India (especially those of us who are raising our children in...
Published on 23 Dec, 2018
Blade sets course for congested cities in India...
Blade, a helicopter rides app, is expanding into India, its first non-US market. Blade has done some number...
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Published on 23 Dec, 2018
How to avoid burnout this Christmas...
Looking for a New Year’s resolution? Embrace aimlessness, suggests Josh Cohen, a psychoanalyst and professor of...
Published on 23 Dec, 2018
Passive attack: the story of a Wall Street revolution...
For those interested in knowing everything about arguably the greatest financial innovation of the past century –...
Published on 23 Dec, 2018
FT Big read – Agritech – Disrupters take root...
A variety of Silicon Valley funded start-ups are bringing a range of innovations to bear upon the US farm sector with...
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Published on 16 Dec, 2018
Lifting Weights Has a Surprising Effect on Mental Healt...
There is plenty of research which shows that exercise can help with depression. Most studies however focus on aerobic...
Published on 16 Dec, 2018
The State of Being Stuck...
A wonderful piece on patience and perseverance from a Mathematician’s perspective – virtues key to success in any...
Published on 16 Dec, 2018
Why northern Europe is the new American dream?...
Simon Kuper is in superb form in this fluent essay on how overworked American professionals now look enviously at...
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Published on 16 Dec, 2018
Dr. Elon & Mr. Musk: Life Inside Tesla’s Product...
An investigative piece about Elon Musk’s travails with Gigafactory and Model 3 by Charles Duhigg, the Pullitzer prize...
Published on 16 Dec, 2018
Jim Simons – the Numbers King...
The revolution that Jim Simons, an award winning Maths professor from Stony Brook University, started in 1982 when he...
Published on 16 Dec, 2018
Christopher Wylie – what happens next?...
Christopher Wylie, the former Cambridge Analytica employee, who blew the cover on what the group was upto, is a very...
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Published on 09 Dec, 2018
Airbnb will start designing – and selling – homes...
Airbnb is getting into the business of providing affordable homes through an initiative called Backyard which is to be...
Published on 09 Dec, 2018
Intelligence profiling opens up uber-parenting potentia...
The genetically perfect Superwoman is pretty quickly going to become a reality to two different streams of advances in...
Published on 09 Dec, 2018
Bilfinger launches Youtube-style skills videos...
Bilfinger, a German construction group, has created a series of videos in response to the German working age population...
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Published on 09 Dec, 2018
Be Afraid of Economic ‘Bigness.’ Be Very Afraid....
This New York Times piece by Tim Wu, a law professor and the author of the recently published “The Curse of Bigness:...
Published on 09 Dec, 2018
The Friendship That Made Google Huge...
No, this is not about Sergei Brin and Larry Page. James Somers, in this lovely piece in The New Yorker, talks about how...
Published on 09 Dec, 2018
Three lessons in decision making from a poker champion...
In this crisp video, poker champion Liv Boeree, tells us that there are three mistakes which poker players make which...
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Published on 02 Dec, 2018
Why my generation is the last of the hedonists...
Janan Ganesh notes the millenials’ growing abstinence from use of alcohol and drugs and even physical intimacy and...
Published on 02 Dec, 2018
Why Central Bank Digital Currencies Will Destroy Crypto...
In this insightful piece, Roubini explains why it is easy and almost inevitable that Central Banks use their unique...
Published on 02 Dec, 2018
Will UK House Prices Ever Rise Again?...
Across the English speaking world – including India – a delusion that grips affluent people is that there is some...
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Published on 02 Dec, 2018
Extreme Athleticism Is the New Midlife Crisis...
Canadian psychologist Elliot Jacques’s 1957 paper on “Death and the Mid-Life crisis” brought out the aspect of...
Published on 02 Dec, 2018
Adm. McRaven Urges Graduates to Find Courage to Change ...
As a start-up, we run into people every now and then who try to use their muscle to put us in our place. In the narrow...
Nov 2018
- Week 4
- Week 3
- Week 2
- Week 1
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Published on 25 Nov, 2018
Time Horizon vs. Endurance...
Another gem from Morgan Housel. The gospel of long term investing remains incomplete without acknowledging the...
Published on 25 Nov, 2018
Momentum Investing: It Works, But Why?...
From the time we entered the stockmarket, all of us have been taught that “if everyone knows that the stock is a BUY...
Published on 25 Nov, 2018
Proxy resignation service helps Japan’s dutiful worke...
Have you been in a situation where you desperately want to quit a job but you don’t quite have it in you to tell your...
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Published on 25 Nov, 2018
A visit to North Sentinel island: ‘Please, please, pl...
In light of this week’s news of the killing of an American man in the North Sentinel Island of the Andaman’s by...
Published on 25 Nov, 2018
The future of war...
This article provides a riveting insight just how high tech war has already become and how frighteningly sophisticated...
Published on 25 Nov, 2018
The plastic backlash: what’s behind our sudden rage ...
Plastic is the main background material of modern material life. “You might be surprised to learn, for instance,...
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Published on 18 Nov, 2018
Why Amazon’s Search for a Second Headquarters Backfir...
Amazon’s much publicised hunt for its second headquarters (HQ2) seems to be drawing some negative PR given the...
Published on 18 Nov, 2018
Banks race to launch blockchain trade platforms...
“When Texas-based Tricon Energy wanted to buy Polymers from India’s Reliance Energy, the two companies avoided the...
Published on 18 Nov, 2018
Humanity’s calling card is the destruction of our pla...
Last week China controversially reinstated the trade in rhino horns. In fact, the Chinese Government decided that it is...
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Published on 18 Nov, 2018
The girl who took women’s cricket to the next level...
Harmanpreet Kaur’s 51-ball century against New Zealand in the ongoing Women’s T20 world cup, follows her...
Published on 18 Nov, 2018
USAID, Monsanto and the real reason behind Delhi’s ho...
For those of us who grew up in Delhi and cannot understand why smoke from Punjabi farmers burning rice stubble has...
Published on 18 Nov, 2018
Amma goes to school...
Neuroscience has shown that the neurons in our brain gradually start dying from middle age and therefore our brain...
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Published on 11 Nov, 2018
As Moore’s law fades, computing seeks a new dimension...
Moore’s law, named after Gordon Moore, the founder of Intel, implied computing power would double every two years....
Published on 11 Nov, 2018
How a Welsh schoolgirl disrupted the publishing world...
In 2011, Beth Reeks a 15-year old Welsh schoolgirl decided to write a teenage romantic novel. So after finishing her...
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Published on 11 Nov, 2018
The New Atlanta Billionaires Behind An Unlikely Tech Un...
At Marcellus, we are fans of Mailchimp. In fact you are reading this email thanks to the cost-effective and user...
Published on 11 Nov, 2018
The rickety house of Paytm...
As the latest scandal to hit Paytm ripples across the media (the CEO’s PA might have tried to extort Rs 20 crores...
Published on 11 Nov, 2018
Business education – the waning popularity of the Ame...
Even well established American business schools are seeing a step drop in applications for their MBA courses. Top tier...
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Published on 04 Nov, 2018
A business ethics class from Australian cricket...
As Australians introspect on the back of the ball-tampering scandal in South Africa with several reviews, one such...
Published on 04 Nov, 2018
Keep it simple, silly...
Elaborating on the power of simplicity, the authors not only drive home the point that “In an increasingly complex...
Published on 04 Nov, 2018
Government Versus RBI: Dissent At The Podium...
In case you have not been keeping up with the bickering between the RBI and the Government, Ira Duggal gives you a...
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Published on 04 Nov, 2018
Where Are the Shudras? Why the Shudras are lost in toda...
Shudras comprise approximately half the population of India…The Mandal Commission concluded in the 1980s that the...
Oct 2018
- Week 4
- Week 3
- Week 2
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Published on 28 Oct, 2018
Getting Rich vs. Staying Rich...
A slighlty dated yet appropriate piece for the times we live in. Morgan Housel one of the most original thinkers and...
Published on 28 Oct, 2018
Ticketmaster stages fightback against touts...
The pop star Taylor Swift’s business acumen is once again in full display as she comes up with a novel way to solve...
Published on 28 Oct, 2018
Do not believe the hype about artificial intelligence...
The author – inspite of running an AI service provider for corporates – says that AI is being overhyped and...
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Published on 28 Oct, 2018
Two articles which should be read together: (1) How soc...
In India it is a common refrain that the Congress can’t get its act together whilst the BJP displays its political...
Published on 28 Oct, 2018
Quant Investor Cliff Asness Hasn’t Smashed His Screen...
Cliff Asness has built AQR Capital Management into a systematic investing giant by capitalizing on two trends: the...
Published on 28 Oct, 2018
What Sets Successful CEOs Apart...
The authors conducted a 10-year study (dubbed the “CEO Genome Project”) to identify what sets successful CEOs...
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Published on 21 Oct, 2018
How tech employees are pushing Silicon Valley to put et...
To end on a brighter note, whilst the world is understandably worried about rapid groundbreaking technological...
Published on 21 Oct, 2018
The case for drip-feed investing is plausible, but cost...
In his typical style, the Undercover Economist debunks yet another everyday gospel – cost averaging. He shows that it...
Published on 21 Oct, 2018
Dodgy data makes it hard to judge Modi’s job promises...
Some of us in Marcellus were still in primary school when Indira Gandhi was the Prime Minister. In that era, our...
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Published on 21 Oct, 2018
In the Himalayas, living the crisis that the IPCC repor...
One of the challenges of our job is that we tend to lose all sense of proportion and obsess about trivialities such as...
Published on 21 Oct, 2018
Saudi Princes Quest to Remake the Middle East...
In the wake of what looks like the murder of Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, in the Saudi Arabian embassy in Turkey,...
Published on 21 Oct, 2018
The Big Hack – How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltra...
This investigative article based on interviews with American government officials and corporates claims that Chinese...
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Published on 14 Oct, 2018
Psychotherapy is not harmless: on the side effects of C...
Most psychologists and psychotherapists that you and I know will be trained in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT). CBT...
Published on 14 Oct, 2018
What made the US unique has become history...
Janan Ganesh is one the FT’s finest columnists and here he uses a Michael Porter-type competitive advantage framework...
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Published on 14 Oct, 2018
How Online Shopping Makes Suckers of Us All...
As millions of Indians go beserk shopping online at this week’s annual binges at the likes of Amazon and Flipkart,...
Published on 14 Oct, 2018
‘This guy doesn’t know anything’: the inside stor...
The legendary Michael Lewis describes in this piece how Donald Trump could not (or did not) prepare properly to become...
Published on 14 Oct, 2018
The creation of a mobile juggernaut...
If you are a budding Indian entrepreneur and are wondering how to create a giant enterprise in a highly regulated...