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New CEOs for new challenges: What gave these iconic firms their success can't assure them a future

New Delhi, May 20 -- Shareholders at Berkshire Hathaway's early-May annual general meeting, often described as a pilgrimage for many who idolize Warren Buffett, might have been puzzled by some aspects... Read More


Markets may be upbeat but that doesn't mean the Gulf war's impact is safely behind us

New Delhi, May 6 -- More than two months on from the beginning of the third Gulf War, despite warnings of oil and gas shortages in the coming weeks, stock investors in the US have used bad news to buy... Read More


The wages of a K-shaped economy: India's demographic dividend may be slipping away

New Delhi, April 22 -- Among several distressing data points in the recently published The State of Working India 2026, a detailed vivisection of India's demographic bulge by scholars at Azim Premji U... Read More


Avoid the Yogi Berra trap: Don't make predictions about the future in a topsy-turvy world

New Delhi, April 9 -- Has economic forecasting ever seemed so fraught with risk? A mix of almost imponderable new possibilities made possible by AI and the unpredictable state of the world makes peopl... Read More


Dining out in the shadows of Jodhpur's past

New Delhi, April 6 -- Rationalists would scoff but Jodhpur's mesmerising Mehrangarh Fort may well have mythical powers. I have visited almost half-a-dozen times and still come away in awe of how it wa... Read More


Artificial intelligence deployed at war: What happened to finding a cure for cancer?

New Delhi, March 25 -- It has been almost six decades since American writer Joan Didion wrote a devastating critique of the hippie counterculture movement after months of reporting in San Francisco. S... Read More


Mohammed Hanif's new novel 'Rebel English Academy' is a rather sorry case of art perverting life

New Delhi, March 21 -- The Rebel English Academy, which is the backdrop for Pakistani author Mohammed Hanif's new novel of the same name, is instantly recognisable to anyone in the subcontinent. It is... Read More


Mohammed Hanif's new novel 'The Rebel English Academy' is a rather sorry case of art perverting life

New Delhi, March 21 -- The Rebel English Academy, which is the backdrop for Pakistani author Mohammed Hanif's new novel of the same name, is instantly recognisable to anyone in the subcontinent. It is... Read More


The Third Gulf War is raising plumes of smoke but could this appalling war have a silver lining?

New Delhi, March 11 -- If proof were needed that even after decades of globalization, the world isn't flat, Iran's chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz is providing plenty. The opposing view might be s... Read More


Tech bros seem bent on controlling minds and politics. Can anyone rein them in?

New Delhi, Feb. 25 -- In Dave Eggers' 2021 novel The Every, a giant search engine company acquires an e-commerce behemoth. Delaney Wells, the lead character, plans a vigilante action against the compa... Read More