- No, Richard Thaler (Nobel winner, economics) didn't support Modi style demonetization
Professor Richard Thaler, winner of Nobel prize for economics, specializes in behavioural economics, and made popular the idea that human behavior affects supposedly rational markets. He popularized the "Nudge" economics…
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- Nigerian Tied To Post And Thrashed By A Mob In Delhi, No one Helped
A Nigerian, accused of being a burgler, was tied to a Post, and beaten up by a mob, and no one came to help. Vigilantism is on a resurgence in India (cow vigilantes, anyone?). Racism is a virtue that we have but we don't…
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- GST protests: 90 Lakh Truckers Begin India-wide Chakka Jam Against GST, 'Extortion' at Toll Booths
The introduction of GST hasn't meant that policemen manning interestate borders are a dejected lot.
New18 reports about the truckers' protests:
Truckers are bearing a loss of Rs 80,000 crore as bribes to various …
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- Post-Diwali Air Pollution In Delhi 30 Times Acceptable Limits
The Central Pollution Control Board says that levels of tiny particulate matter (PM 2.5 in short), which reaches deep into your lungs, increased by more than 200% the next day after Diwali, India's most expensive festiva…
Topic: Pollution, India | Read more
- 2 reasons why shooting isn't a sport
Shooting and Gold are not much unlike. Two reasons why shooting is not 'proper' sports (or, two reasons why there is no sports revolution underway in India):
1. Shooting is not a physical activity, unless you count brea…
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- Four reasons why Indians continue to tolerate mis-selling of financial and insurance products
Part of the blame goes to a slow, consumer-unfriendly system, but a big part of the blame lies with the Indian consumer, who is just too lazy. From a good article by Subra:
1. The customer is so damn indifferent that he…
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- What ails India #1: Big Business is as much to blame for the current mess as the Central Government
Other than outsourcing, copying of patented drugs, buying government-owned companies at discounted rates, getting licenses and policies fixed in collusion with politicians, and getting outrageous amounts of land to set u…
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- Five things fresh Indian MBAs should never forget
If you are one of those who thought about doing an MBA because it seemed a good way to get a job at the time, then you may be in trouble. Here are five truths about the next phase of life that every fresh MBA graduate mu…
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- The 10 Commandments of Buying and Owning Cars in India
Here is a list of most important piece of advice you will ever come across about car buying and ownership. But, first, why do you need to buy a carTravelling on public transport too embarrassing for you(of course, findin…
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- A short chronology of Indian Civilian-Military Distrust
The Indian Express story about unexpected troop movements around Delhi in January 2012, on the same that the army chief General Singh took the government to the Supreme Court, raises more questions about the state of Ind…
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- Satnam Singh Bhamara: Not quite India's Yao Ming
Sports magazines primary deal in making legends. Currently, one of their project is an Indian freak (and one means that in a good way) -Satnam Singh Bhamara a 7-foot-2-inch Punjabi farmer's son. The kid's mother is 6 fee…
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- India, not a superpower: Only a soft powerhouse (long live Bollywood and curry)
A study by the reputed London School of Economics says India is not a superpower by a big measure. India can't even lord like a superpower over its poor neighbors (the recent crisis in Maldives, for example). India has f…
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- Why Indian organizations ban websites: Objectionable content is just an excuse to hide other motives
The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) reportedly blocked Facebook, on its campus, as it believed the site carried objectionable posts that Muslims would not like. However, the Indian Express reports that the actual reason …
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- Annals of rich Indian lawmakers: 86% of MLAs in Punjab are crorepatis
Another evidence in support of the argument that the democratic process is not for the poor or even the middle class. The Association for Democratic Reforms reports that 101 of the Punjab’s 117 newly-elected legislators …
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- Finally a sensible rail budget: If you can pay Rs. 250 for a bad bollywood movie, you can pay Rs. 150 extra for rail travel
Middle class India doesn't need to despair over the hikes in rail fares in 2012. It happened after 8 years, under a sensible-enough Rail Minister, who seems to be a breadth of fresh air after all those populist rail mini…
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- Chris Cairns accuses crickters Dinesh Mongia and TP Singh of match fixing
Giving testimony in the court in the course of his Twitter libel case against Lalit Modi, ex-cricketer from New Zealander, Chris Cairns, the famous allrounder, alleged that former India batsman Dinesh Mongia and Railway…
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- Eco-friendly idea of the day: Tilak Holi
The concept of Tilak Holi is to use Gulal (colored talcum-like powder) instead of buckets of colored water during the hindu festival of colors, Holi. The idea is just apply a Tilak mark on the person's forehead, and givi…
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- The Women of Delhi: The real heroes of Delhi
How a woman survives in Delhi ought to be a post-apocalyptic heroine-survival story in iteself. In this city, more rapes are reported than anywhere else in India. A habitually rude public likes to call molestation good-o…
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- Tata's next bad car after Nano: Megapixel, a hybrid car that will give 100kmpl
Coming 3 years from now, Tata will introduce the Megapixel, an awful name for a car, a 4-seater hybrid car that will give 100 kmpl mileage (under battery-only power), powered by a combination of a petrol engine and a bat…
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- Dear Indian Media, Stop all this SP-praising
5 years ago, you all were singing same praises for Mayawati, her rainbow alliance, how she ousted SP's goonda-raj from UP. Already a losing SP candidate shot bullets in anger, people got injured.
You forget Mulayam's fa…
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