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By the middle of 2015, things became dire for Odisha’s private engineering colleges. Of the state’s 46,000 engineering seats, as many as 30,000 were vacant. In this excerpt from his book ‘Despite the State’, M Rajshekhar tells the story of the boom and bust—in which the students and staff were the only losers
M. Rajshekhar
Energy reporter and author
The regulatory pushback was long in the making. And it has as much to do with Alibaba's dominance, a wariness of big businesses, and deeper socio-cultural issues
G Venkat Raman
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences | Indian Institute of Management, Indore
January 16, 2021: How to sort your newsletters—and actually read them
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January 15, 2021: Vijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah on India's data policy; Kishore Mahbubani on RCEP—India’s catastrophic geopolitical decision; Home truths on the India Vs Australia test draw; How privacy used to be
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January 14, 2021: Richard Feynman on leaving room for doubt; How Mumbai Traffic Police became a brand; How to thrive in a vuca world; Privacy vs People
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
January 13, 2021: Why TED Talks work; Covid-19 vaccines in India; A weather check on New Year resolutions; Are you still on Twitter?
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January 12, 2020: Ved Mehta, 1934-2021: The art of seeing; Jeff Bezos and the importance of doing nothing; Revealed! What’s choking the internet
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This is a decisive moment in India’s digitisation. The digital rails were put in place over the past decade and 2020 saw a dramatic acceleration of trends that were already happening. Nandan Nilekani and Haresh Chawla discuss the many ways India could ride this train
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January 11, 2021: What’sApp’s new terms of use; All Things Digital: A conversation between Nandan Nilekani and Haresh Chawla; The downside of transparency
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January 8, 2021: Trendspotting with Nandan Nilekani and Haresh Chawla; Jacqueline Novogratz on understanding communities; Seven types of rest; Time and distance: Special Theory of Relativity
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January 7, 2021: John Chambers on spotting market transitions; David Davidar on how to book success; China’s economic web; Time to know the truth
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January 6, 2021: The coming consolidation in retail; How to conduct better meetings; Tea art of remembering
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January 5, 2021: Trendspotting with Haresh Chawla (and a conversation with Nandan Nilekani); A curator’s reflections on 2020; Our blessed homeland, and their barbarous wastes, updated
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A new set of winners and losers are poised to emerge from the ashes of the pandemic. And a wall of foreign capital is pouring in to fund a slew of digital startups. A peek into what 2021 portends
Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
January 4, 2021: Why we should aspire for a new decentralised economic model; Soumya Swaminathan reflects on the pandemic; The first rule of 2021
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