What Indian startups must learn from fallen unicorn Theranos
Most investors in Theranos were probably driven by loss aversion and a fear of missing out on one of the ‘hot rising stars’.
Indonesia’s strict penal code is an omen of illiberal democracy
To anyone who’s been watching Indonesia in recent years, the passing of a stiff new criminal code, one that bans extramarital sex, makes it easier to punish LGBTQ people and harder to criticize the government, wasn’t a shock
NFTs now look headed the crypto way
Before Twitter’s takeover, Jack Dorsey, its founder and ex-CEO, sold his first tweet (also the first tweet ever) as an NFT for more than $2.9 million.
India’s renewed nuclear energy thrust is for the world to emulate
Five new locations have been earmarked for building nuclear power facilities and funds have been sanctioned for setting up 10 new reactors.
Mint Explainer: India's road to becoming a higher education hub
National Education Policy seeks a radical overhaul, making it flexible and skills-based.
INFOSYS: Powered by values, and driven by excellence
A lot of credit goes to N.R. Narayana Murthy, an extraordinary leader who set an example for others to follow
The e-rupee will yield demand-side learnings
The current design of India’s CBDC is appropriately conservative but the idea has plenty of potential that could be explored.
A resource crunch need not hurt our soft power
While a parliamentary panel has pointed to gaps in India’s projection efforts, Indian talent across the world remains our best bet to win people in other countries over and gain sway
India’s youth bulge may have already peaked
The number of youth in India is expected to contract to 367.4 million by 2026, 356.6 million by 2031 and 345.5 million by 2036.
An EU green-cover policy that looks like a trade shield
Agricultural protectionism is not new for the EU. Be it through its market-intervention measures like export refunds and intervention buying, or more recently through stiff regulations for exporters, the EU has always protected its farmers
Next-gen education will have to be about AI adaptation
Kids growing up into tomorrow’s world will need a healthy sense of scepticism to discern what’s authentic
Thrill of an uptick
As attention spans and playing formats shorten, it’s the plain pace that keeps eyeballs agog, scoreboards ticking, and audience frenzy rewarding
Go for stable prices even if its poll returns decline
It may be a tad reductionist, but it’s valid nonetheless to picture the arena of competitive politics like a market where even the most popular brand can get ‘priced out’ of the reckoning by an inflation flare-up
The record shows that ‘Arjuna’s eye’ hasn’t quite been on inflation
Casting itself in the role of the skilled archer of the Mahabharata, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has said it has “Arjuna’s eye” on inflation
Chatbots can answer anything that doesn’t need a mind
ChatGPT is based on what are known as large language models. It trawls through trillions of words on the internet, and is trained to create text based on what it has seen
Does India keep people in an endless state of childhood?
It’s not such an absurd question when one thinks of the ways our authorities try to protect us from ourselves