Number of words: 1,019 The current craze for online education (OE) reminds me of the wall graffiti advertising sex clinics that are visible across urban north India. These ads promise guaranteed cures — shartiya ilaj — for all kinds of ailments and afflictions. Today, OE is being force-fed to Indian education as a miracle cure … Read more
Number of words: 1,696 Capitalism’s Dependence on Endless Consuming Let’s begin by taking a long view back to the emergence of the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution of the 19th century greatly increased the number of goods and services available to the world’s population. The steam engine, railroads, new machinery and factories, and improved agriculture … Read more
Number of words: 336 The company announced the move in a statement on Tuesday, noting that it had decided to “permanently discontinue” the baby powder in the US and Canada to “prioritize high-demand products” amid the Covid-19 pandemic, attributing the fall in sales in part to “misinformation.” “Demand for talc-based Johnson’s Baby Powder in North … Read more
Number of words: 1,660 When 61 people met for a choir practice in a church in Mount Vernon, Washington, on 10 March, everything seemed normal. For 2.5 hours the chorists sang, snacked on cookies and oranges, and sang some more. But one of them had been suffering for 3 days from what felt like a … Read more
Number of words: 631 It is hard for me to remember now, but when I joined Ogilvy in 1988, to perform almost any kind of work, you had to be in an office. This was where your post and faxes arrived. Your desk phone was where people called you. The office was also home to … Read more
Number of words: 868 Forget the new year’s resolution: September, not January, is the time for new starts. College freshers are preparing to leave home, graduates are ironing shirts and blouses and dressing up for their first day in the office. Recruiters and admissions tutors are hoping they made the right choices. So how do … Read more
Number of words: 9,544 The strange thing about academics, which always fascinates me, is that they believe they’re completely immune to status considerations and consider themselves to be more or less monks. In reality, of course, academics are the most status-conscious people in the world. Take away a parking space from an academic and see … Read more
Number of words: 1,617 Let me briefly explain what business and behavioral science have in common. They both do experiments. Apart from that, everything is slightly different. Business does not always perform experiments consciously. Sometimes, a business or a product is an experiment in itself. When the iPhone was introduced it represented a huge bet … Read more
Number of words: 1,420 Whenever I wish to scandalise people, I have a sentence which works every time: “I would prefer my daughters took up smoking than started cycling in London.” My argument is as follows. If my daughters take up smoking and find it impossible to quit, there is a fairly high chance of … Read more
Number of words: 593 I love anything open late at night. Never mind ‘the sigh of midnight trains in empty stations’; even mundane activities like filling up with petrol become enjoyably Edward Hopperish after midnight. Often the places are so quiet you wonder why they bother opening at all. But it is a strange psychological … Read more
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