Here's me overcompensating for 3-week absence, and making yet another, not-at-all convincing promise that I'd more regular with these posts in the future:
India
Tamil Nadu has been successfully running a Make in India model for about twenty years
Money into the sea:
Mumbai’s coastal road is expensive and bad urban planning
Watch: Nandan Nilekani talks about
financial disruption in India
The
sorry state of the private healthcare in India
India is
no longer as dependent on the monsoon as it used to be
At current pace,
district courts in India will take at least 10 years to clear out pending cases
The
most exciting e-commerce company in India?
Around the world
China’s status in the world, explained in charts
What are the
Sustainable Development Goals?
Are we
a little too addicted to bottled water?
There was a
lot of heated debate when two weeks ago when a US pharma company
raised prices of a cancer drug by 50 times to about $750. That same drug
is available in India for about 3 cents. The US drug has returned to
its original price now
A stampede at Mina near Hajj killed nearly 700 people. The crowd problem is a combination
of sociology and fluid dynamics
Business and Tech
WhatsApp has only 50 engineers to serve its 900 million users
People are going “retro” by
preferring paper books over ebooks
Comparing all iPhone cameras
Scariest moments of the 2009 financial crisis
Millennials will buy any shit you sell them
Apple wants to kill Google at its monotonous advertising game
Reason we haven’t any alien communication so far? They might be
using advanced encryption technology
Strange things
How many years before you die?
Are you an engineer?
13% chance that you'd marry another engineer
Do you highlight when you study? Sorry, but
that is not necessarily a helpful activity
What does probability mean in your profession?
Sad? Call a service which sends
hot men to wipe out your tears
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Shreyas is a Delhi-based Consultant working with PricewaterhouseCoopers. He blogs at shreyasp.wordpress.com. He is an alumnus of IIM Indore. Follow him on InsideIIM at shreyasp.insideiim.com