Does patriarchy prevent India’s economic growth?
Tough questions need to be asked about the role of patriarchy in impeding India’s economic growth, and platitudes about culture cannot paper over the problems any more.
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When Google meets Indian crafts
Can a Google project to showcase Indian crafts digitally heighten demand and boost income at the grassroots?
A day in the life of London
Or where to dine in Scottish poet William Dunbar’s “the flower of cities all” if you are wealthy and with taste.
The great global churning
During the transition to an uncertain destination with unpredictable outcomes and consequences, politics is likely to be volatile and dangerous.
We’ll always have London
Brexit or no Brexit, the British capital will always be home for the Indian elite.
Are you in a toxic love affair with your smartphone?
The first thing you see when you wake up, the last thing you check before you go to sleep, and 150 times in between.
Highway to heaven
A unique project in Varanasi is pushing for modern development in the heartland of Indian antiquity. It may well become a model for historic precincts in the country as India develops economically.
The Lehman Trilogy: A chronicle of American capitalism
The story of the Lehman brothers is also the story of America and how it was built.
OTT platforms: Full stream ahead
As Indians consume more digital content, video-streaming players are battling it out for eyeballs and real estate on smartphones. Who will emerge the winner?
Who’s afraid of hip-hop Ramcharitmanas?
If there is one overwhelming desire that underpins politics in India today and which is almost entirely ignored in any debate, it is the desire to transform from being a market to an economy.
