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
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
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