Leaving Mumbai …
January 17, 2021I never thought I would leave Mumbai. The city of my birth. The city that let me grow. The city that was so much part of me, that the very act of returning to it from my travels, would make me smile…
Column: Extremism and Big Tech – a relationship that threatens the world
January 17, 2021i write for the FPJ on the link between Big Tech and Extremism Last week, a mob of white extremists, egged on by a President who refused to accept the November election results, attempted to overturn the US elections, and overthrow the…
Column: A Woman’s Wage – Time to Pay for Women’s Work
January 17, 2021This piece on unpaid women’s wage – paying for women’s work – appeared in the FPJ on the 4th of January: The COVID pandemic has exposed how fragile the world’s move towards equality and equity is. Across the world, the most economically…
Column: COVID & Long Term Changes in the Global Economy
January 17, 2021I write for the FPJ on the 28th of December, on the ways in which the economies of the world were changed forever. “On 31 December 2019, the WHO China Country Office was informed of cases of pneumonia unknown etiology (unknown cause)…
Film Review: Soul by Pixar – a balm for weary souls
January 2, 2021Soul by Pixar is a great way to end your 2020, and start your 2021. Ask anyone, and they will tell you that 2020 was a strange sort of year. A year that called into question everything that we knew, and the…
Column: The World is Losing the War against Poverty
December 27, 2020An additional 88 million people will slip back into extreme poverty because of Covid-19 in the best case scenario, and about 115 million in the worst case scenario. This is the worst reversal in poverty alleviation in almost thirty years,
Column: How to win a battle: Disinformation offers a strategic advantage over foes
December 27, 2020Chanakya talked about Gudayuddha, or the secret war – that used clandestine methods, including misinformation, to win wars. Disinformation is not a modern phenomenon. It has been used for centuries, if not aeons.
Column: The Post #COVID New normal demands new set of skills
December 27, 2020The need of the hour is massive re-skilling of the existing workforce of many organisations
Column: Govt must step out of its echo chamber & listen to ‘Jan ki Baat’
December 27, 2020Farmers from four North Indian states – Punjab, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh — are currently in Delhi, protesting against the new laws pushed through by the Government that promise to transform agriculture. While the BJP calls it reform, the opposition and farmers’ groups call it a death sentence.
Column: Raising the Bogey of Love Jihad
December 27, 2020‘Love jihad’ is back in the news because BJP states are planning to bring in ordinances to prevent it. In the era of coronavirus and the economic devastation it has wreaked, states are busy fighting a bogey that does not exist. Probably because it is easier to fight a made-up enemy, than to deal with real issues.