Business

Empowerment Beyond Enrolment

While India’s women-focused programmes are moving from welfare delivery to economic empowerment, sustained incomes and market access remain the real test. For decades, women-focused welfare in India has largely centred on social protection and household well-being. In recent years, however,...
Politics 
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The W2K Problem

Most people have heard of the Y2K problem. But recently, I found myself thinking about a different problem altogether. I call it the W2K problem. W2K stands for a surprisingly simple but unsettling idea: the average person may have only...
General 
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Degrees Without Destiny: The Great Indian Placement Illusion

As IT hiring collapses, India’s universities stand exposed as assembly lines for jobs that no longer exist. Consider three names. Google. Facebook. Dell. Each of them was built inside a college dormitory. Google was a doctoral project at Stanford in...
Technology 
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The Three Bucket Rule

As we start the new financial year, this is a good time to pause and look at how your monthly income is being used. Let me try and help you rationalise your expenses, EMIs, and savings in a simple and...
Business 
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