The Long Flight
On the morning of October 15, 1932, J.R.D. Tata climbed into the cockpit of a de Havilland Puss...
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Shoot for the Sky
The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn’t have a space programme. The American science...
Cashing in the Chips
In 1965, the Intel co-founder Gordon Moore predicted that the number of transistors that would fit...
The Wellness Question
It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat – Arnold Schwarzenegger For someone with as long and...
A Username Too Far?
For more than a decade, a mobile phone number has done two jobs on WhatsApp and other messaging...
Licence To Bargain
The year was 1964. Sean Connery had arrived in Switzerland to shoot Goldfinger. Along with much of...
Worth the Wait
On December 28, 2016, the company that operates India’s biggest stock exchange where thousands of...
Chasing Dollars
If you are a non-resident Indian or know someone who is, here’s a once-in-a-decade chance to make...
All That Glitters (Is Suspicious)
Have you ever visited a factory or an office, inspected a shipment or spoken to a company’s...
Fraud Is a Family Business
There was a time when stock market wisdom came wrapped in balance sheets, broker notes and...
The Price of Stability
For much of the past year, markets and investors had settled into a relatively comfortable...
The Return of Limits
For years, India’s economic story has largely been one of expansion. More people travelling...
Beyond the Back Office
There was a time when multinational companies came to India largely for support work. Global firms...
When the Cartel Cracks
In the late 1950s, oil prices were not set by the countries that produced the oil, but by a handful...
Finding the Fault Lines
In the years leading up to 2000, a quiet unease began to build around something that sounded...
Playing A New Tune
For most of March, markets moved in a somewhat uneven manner on the back of escalating tensions in...
On Thin Ice
When Jon Snow allowed the wildlings to pass through the Wall in Game of Thrones, the fantasy drama...
Spotting the Elite Con
There is a famous Hindi idiom which goes: Behti Ganga mein haath dona. Its English equivalent would...
Knocking it Out of the Park
On the evening of September 24, 2007, arch rivals India and Pakistan fought intensely in the final...
Learning a New Lesson
Exactly six years ago, the Covid-19 virus swept through the world. Entire economies came to a...
