Protests, Peace and Progress

The central government is being tested on all fronts – engineered oil crisis, FII pulling out funds, tariff talk stalemate, devious, agenda driven agitations and pressure to keep the inflation under control. Not withstanding these factors, the pressure from the external world and media needed to be handled. As in the past the Government willContinue reading “Protests, Peace and Progress”

Debts and Economy

Leaders take a part of profits as compensation and bonuses, but employees get a pittance. Shareholders invest money in companies and get a small part of the profits, if any, as dividends that are taxed. Market cap is determined by share value, and that is not constant. But corporates run operations on debt. Banks lendContinue reading “Debts and Economy”

Traffic woes of Urban India

India’s major cities are overwhelmed by an unprecedented volume of vehicular traffic. As the population expands, urban migration increases correspondingly. Consequently, the growth in urban population is accompanied by a proportional rise in the number of vehicles. However, the road infrastructure has remained largely unchanged, resulting in more vehicles per kilometer of road length thanContinue reading “Traffic woes of Urban India”

Is Ai a boon or a curse?

Ai is being touted as a game changing infrastructural innovation of this decade similar to Computers, Internet, Mobile phones and Satellites that revolutionised the world. Every infrastructural innovation has brought immense benefits to the mankind and today we can’t live without anyone of them. Ai understandably is positioned as the most powerful infrastructure till thisContinue reading “Is Ai a boon or a curse?”