TIME TO LISTEN / ARUN MAIRA
Business rules, everywhere
THE Covid pandemic which struck in February 2020 shattered the livelihoods of billions around the world and hundreds of thousands of lives were lost in the first year. In that year stock markets around the world reached record highs. Stock markets seem to thrive on human misery. The war in
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Counting daisies?
IT takes a child to tell an emperor that he is not wearing any clothes. My seven-year-old grandson made me realize that the Planning Commission and the Government of India were not listening to the people. Driving with me in New Delhi, in my government car with a red light
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Putting the powerless first
THE COVID-19 pandemic has put the global economy through a severe stress test. As accelerated stress tests do in medicine and engineering, revealing structural weaknesses in the systems being tested (complex human bodies, and complex machines like aircraft and motor vehicles), the pandemic has revealed dangerous weaknesses in designs of
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