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The Smart Buyer
A RIDE ALONG DELHI METRO’S TONY NEIGHBOURHOODS can be intuitively reflective. Zoomers in branded Ts and hemp pants carry recyclable bags with bold messages while millennials pore over mobile content...
View ArticleThe New Gold Rush
FOR SOME TIME NOW, Kerala has been witnessing a phenomenon that could be right out of thriller movies. The state has always had a fascination with gold. Because many Malayalees have for decades been...
View ArticleDon’t Envy, Aspire
A FORTNIGHT AGO, WITH RATAN TATA’S death, India lost not just one of its most formidable wealth creators. India also lost a human being who always placed humanism and humanity much above the creation...
View ArticleStartups: Pushing India towards $10 Trillion Economy
INDIA STANDS ON THE CUSP OF A PROFOUND economic transformation, a process catalysed by its flourishing startup ecosystem. Over the last decade, the country has witnessed an exponential rise in...
View ArticleRohan Nayak: Sound Money
THE STORY OPENS WITH LAKSHMAN LAL Agarwal, aka Lucky, making a drugstore delivery to a hotel room. And who should open the door but his materialistic girlfriend Dimple. Caught cheating, she...
View ArticleThe Value Investor’s Manual
NINE YEARS AGO, ON A LATE EVENING IN MAY, Neil Parikh was watching an Indian Premier League match on television when he received a phone call that said his father had been in a car accident. Parag...
View ArticleHow to Monetise AI
A FOOD DELIVERY STARTUP WAS RECENTLY in the news for slashing its customer service workforce by 60 per cent thanks to AI-driven automation, with chatbots resolving 90 per cent of customer issues. The...
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The Persistence of Growth
THE YEAR WAS 1958 AND THE AMERICAN economist Walt Whitman Rostow was lecturing a Cambridge audience about the ingredients that make countries wealthy. He had a famous five-stage theory of economic...
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Dividends of Dreams
I LIKE THINGS MORE THAN PEOPLE,” SAYS ART collector Shalini Passi, seated on what looks like a throne, surrounded by art ranging from Raza to Anish Kapoor—and worried about the piece that has to be...
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Lawrence Bishnoi: The New Don
POLICE OFFICERS AND INTELLIGENCE AGENTS who closely watch the convent-educated underworld don Lawrence Bishnoi assert that the 31-year-old runs his crime enterprise like a corporation because he...
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