Climate change and India’s Chapati Crisis
The only thing India can possibly do during this year’s global food crisis is to not make it any worse for its own poor. As...
Category : Opinion
Keep up the vigil
The world has hardly recovered from the covid pandemic, but another contagion alert has been sounded. More than 100 confirmed and suspected cases of monkeypox—a...
Infosys has done well to reappoint Salil Parekh
Infosys Ltd. announced on Sunday that it was giving a second, five-year term to incumbent chief executive officer Salil Parekh, effective 1 July. This is...
What the long history of currency says about cryptocalypse
Cryptocurrencies are down anything between 58% (Bitcoin) and 83% (Cardano) from their record highs in November. What the turmoil in the cryptocurrency world shows is...
Life expectancies and tennis racquets
It made sense and was easy to remember. Those days, I played at least four times a week, so I’d restring four times a year,...
Russia’s misfire
Finland and Sweden have formally submitted requests to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato). The two Nordic countries had stayed neutral all through the...
World’s best stablecoin has advice for newbies
The celestial algorithm that keeps the moon in its orbit around the earth clearly works a lot better than the one that governed Luna and...
Socio-economic challenges facing PM Modi
On January 24, 1992, I saw him for the first time up close. He was speaking casually with journalists in Jammu. His tenacity, clarity, and...
What Coinbase row signals about the regulator’s intent
Indian business leaders and many firms rarely speak out against government policy or regulatory authorities. The US-based Coinbase, which is listed on Nasdaq, however, appears...
Leeway on the rupee
The Indian rupee is having a tough run. On Thursday, it fell to a fresh all-time low against the dollar. Blame a mix of reasons....