Many of us have an inherent wish to write. Still, we are pulled down by our apprehensions about how it would be perceived, our lack of faith in our knowledge, and multiple other reasons. I started this newsletter/blog here sometime early in the lockdown last year. A couple of months…

Income inequality is one of the most discussed issues in today’s world. Thomas Piketty, a French economist and one of the foremost experts in economic inequality in his book Capital in the 21st Century, argues that the ratio of wealth to income is rapidly rising in most countries. You can…

The Internet arrived in the popular scene in the late 1980s and early 90s, from its first arrival itself, it was touted as the biggest democratizing and equalizing force ever. It was widely believed that the Internet would break the hegemony of people and firms in specific domains and rightly…

Jio has been making a lot of news lately for raising funds repeatedly from Facebook, followed by private equity firms including Silver Lake, Vista Equity Partners, General Atlantic, and KKR. Jio has raised over $10 billion at valuations around $60–65 billion. They just completed the biggest ever rights issue in…

India’s official GDP numbers ( by Central Statistics Office) just came out. The GDP increased by 4.2% over the entire fiscal year 2019–20, which is a steep downfall compared to 6.1% in the fiscal year 2018–19. Growth came down to 3.1% for the last quarter (ending in March). Also, the…

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Darwin was absolutely right in saying this almost two hundred years ago. COVID-19 is a public health crisis of unprecedented magnitude in this intricately tangled new world. In order…

No one can disagree on the fact that the COVID-19 is an unprecedented health crisis in the globalized world. The last such crisis was the Spanish flu of 1918 that infected over 500 million people i.e. a quarter of the world population and claimed over 15 million lives at least…