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  • So, We Beat On … …
    It was on April 10, 1925, that Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby – the defining portrait of the Jazz Age’s extravagance and glamour aimed at achieving “vast, vulgar, meretricious beauty of material success” sans moral cudgels— adorned the shelves of book stalls....
  • First Call of the Spring … …
     The other day, as dawn gently crept in, I perched by the window that overlooked the lane lined with hedge plants, their green leaves swaying in the cool breeze in harmony with the waking world. Hindu in hand, as I was about to begin the routine of the day, the dulcet...
  • The Crypto Reserve: What Next?
    On March 6, United States President Donald Trump issued an executive order to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a US Digital Asset Stockpile. The reserve would be built with Bitcoins forfeited as part of criminal or civil asset forfeiture proceedings and currently owned...
  • The Four Vedas
     Āno bhadrāḥ kratavo yantu viśvataḥ —Let noble thoughts come to me from all directions (Ṛg Veda1.89.1). Indians revere Sanskrit as Gīrvāṇa Bhasha–the language of the Devine. It is the liturgical language of Hinduism and Buddhism. The word Saṃskṛta means refined and...
  • Is ‘90-Hour Working Week’ the Panacea for Growth?
    The recent opinions expressed by a few stalwarts of India Inc.—Narayana Murthy of Infosys and SN Subrahmanyam of L&T—favoring ‘70/90-hour working weeks’ as a solution for India’s growth had triggered a raging debate on social media. These remarks drew criticism from a few...
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