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Chapter 3: Sterling Cellular Grabs Delhi leaving Ratan Tata broken
Chapter 3: By 1994, JRD Tata had passed on. Ratan Tata struggled to manage the...
How the JAMUNS are warning us
Such observations are thought provoking. Now even scientists are saying that we are heading for...
Q4B: to continue from my last post
Q4B: to continue from my last post: https://lnkd.in/g8vqnFVi * on what India is doing to...
Q4A: to continue from my last post
Q4A: to continue from my last post: https://lnkd.in/g4J_W4tz *how will India compete with USA and...
Q4: this is from one of the top ai reporters from Silicon Valley
Q4: this is from one of the top ai reporters from Silicon Valley * you...
Q3 : again from Charles Assisi
Q3 : again from Charles Assisi *You noted that TCS historically ran a massive volume-based...
Q1 from Charles Assisi
I will take a hundred journalist questions on ai in June. Some of these are...
Aatmanirbharta Needs Patient Capital
Dipak Gupta usually has a sharp, well researched narrative. As Chair of the largest private...
AI Agents at work ,TCS will reduce Hiring: Chandra
I couldn’t believe that Tata PR had actually prepared this release. And that someone like...
Argentina Moves to Legalize “Non-HumanCorporations” Run by AI
A few months ago I had shared a post on how an ai was doing...
Most Profitable Banks in India
In the banking industry, profitability is an accountants opinion. The figure stated is an illusion....
Super 1000. What matters ? And what doesn’t ? Have most IITians wasted their IIT degrees ?
Super 1000. What matters ? And what doesn’t ? Have most IITians wasted their IIT...
Super 1000
Super 1000. Augmenting human intelligence faster than ai. Batch One to start academic year 2026-27....
Adani Power just overtook Infosys in market cap.
Adani Power just overtook Infosys in market cap. A thermal power producer is now worth...
Builders of a new India #2
Builders of a new India #2Deendayal Shodh Sansthan is a rural transformation catalyst like no...
Luckin coffee
Luckin coffee effect in India. Is a coffee shop about coffee or is it about...
Delhi Gymkhana Club
Right to property is not a fundamental right. And there is misuse of the lease...
Spectacles have not changed for three hundred years.
Spectacles have not changed for three hundred years. First lenses were made from glass by...
Megaspheres
Till now, it was salesmen who dominated the AI narrative. All kinds of goods from...
MegaSpheres
In April 2025, the IIT Alumni Council presented MegaSpheres to the Boards of some of...
Niti Aayog on Ease of Doing R&D
It doesn’t matter what subject.Every single govt report is an attempt by a bureaucrat to...
HDFC Saga Continues
HDFC Saga ContinuesCitibank Playbook 101: what cannot be done directly, figure out a way to...
The Pope has come up with a 38,000 word encyclical on Ai.
The Pope has come up with a 38,000 word encyclical on Ai. Here is the...
Breach of Trusts
The Indian Trust Act needs a major and emergency overhaul. Right now it is no...
Air India
Air India cannot be turned around !!! Period. Every problem does not have a solution....
When you reset your diversity, what do you do with the old lot
Restoration of cultural diversity is very very hard once a monoculture gets control. It is...
No need to rush — I know exactly how far to go
A political cartoon reportedly circulating in Chinese media says more about global power perception than...
What is the end game with Pakistan ??
What is the end game with Pakistan ??It is a question without any clear answer....
The world’s First Mechanical Computer
To get to matching the human brain, we need about a million times of the...
The Cockroach Janta Party
It is so easy to criticize, but real challenge is in finding practical solutions that...
Raghu Rai will never die because photographs outlive us
Raghu Rai will never die because photographs outlive us. The moment will go but the...
The Cockroach Janta Party
The Cockroach Janta Party can go way beyond a joke if not curtailed. We have...
The Great Consumption Shift
The havoc caused by cybercrime, rupee export and illegal retailing is crippling our economy. And...
World Wisdom Forum
The main commonwealth stadium in New Delhi can easily host 150,000 people. By adding the...
Who will judge the judges ?
Who will judge the judges ? And what are they here to judge ? What...
What not to do is often a more important decision
Most management thought is focused on “what to do ? How to do ? When...
The IIT Alumni
The IIT Alumni Change Leaders Meet at Kimaya Restaurant in Pune on Sunday concluded with...
Tata portfolio needs fundamental correction
Undoing what the current Tata leadership has done is neither easy. Nor fully reversible. The...
Chairman of Tata Trusts has to be Chairman of Tata Sons.
Let us get to the crux of the Cyrus Mistry fiasco and understand why it...
85% of Tata Sons income is from TCS
There is nothing ethical about how shares are sold to the public in a India....
TCS shares were pledged to raise loans
Citibank was THE havala bank of India. The who’s who of India send money abroad...
Why was TCS spun out of Tata Sons?
To understand the why, one has to step back to 1991 – the year when...
TCS was not a normal delivery for mother Tata Sons
To understand Tata Sons and the genesis of its current condition, one has to understand...
NVIDIA is abandoning centralized AI factories as core driver of growth
cc— and it is adding an alternate layer: distributed inference and edge AI infrastructure. The...
Tidal Lagoon Power Plants can be a critical part of building climate change resilience
Perpetual, India’s leading player in energy transition to nano nuclear, agro voltaics, ocean wave, clean...
AIF is the only structure for Tata Sons Pvt Ltd
If one does a careful analysis of the various issues involved in the Tata discord,...
Tata Sons as a category 2 AIF
The current state of Tatas is the result of poor professional advice and a malafide...
The most efficient way to bathe is in a flowing river
The most efficient way to bathe is in a flowing river. Without soap. Or oil....
No Degree? No Advice on Social Media
Regulators need to stop influencers who may be acting for bad players. A classic case...
Corporate India on Investment Strike
The “Investment Strike”: Why India Inc. is Staying on the Sidelines 🇮🇳. Investment is at...
Few know that all states don’t have the same governance
Few know that all states don’t have the same governance. In fact Gujarat, MP and...
Hindustan Zinc
Marwari model of mismanagement vs the Tata model of getting mismanaged. The resilience of both...
Cluster Network
One district one product: FailedCluster manufacturing: FailedSEZ mfg : yet to succeed. If we look...
Learning vs Teaching
Learning vs TeachingDiscovering vs InventingRealising vs being instructed. Deep in the interiors of the tribal...
The occasion of Ma Sita’s birthday
On the occasion of Ma Sita’s birthday, I was at the Sati Anusuya Ashram. This...
The Higher Education model in India is broken
The Higher Education model in India is broken. And this time, it is NOT the...
Water water everywhere But not a drop to drink
Water water everywhere. But not a drop to drink. My interaction with water warriors has...
Padma Sri awardees are usually a delight to be with and learn from
Padma Sri awardees are usually a delight to be with and learn from. Last week...
Delhi Chapter : IITK Alumni Association
Is India on the right path in ai ? This was my question to the...
The Chaat Party
38 years ago, a Chaat party united a fraternity and created a movement – the...
The House of TATA
Who owns a Trust ? Who actually owns the Tata Group shares ? More important...
Final Stage of the AI bubble?
The bubble burst is now under 18 months away. Under could mean three or a...
The Systemic Risk to the Indian Economy
Ai is not going to disrupt the Indian economy in the next 36 months. But...
The Aravalli Biodiversity Park
The Aravalli Biodiversity Park, the Yamuna Biodiversity Park and five others in and around New...
River Rejuvenation
River rejuvenation has a new role model in the making – the Mandakini river in...
Daiki Axis
Reinventing water and sanitation is not easy. As a country, we haven’t even tried. We...
Google breaks all records
Google and Meta evade over Rs 100,000 crores of GST and over Rs 75,000 crore...
No more deposits in private banks
I actually think this is a very good step. When HDFC goes down or if...
TATA Docomo
Even to be a sweeper in the municipality or a Daroga in the police you...
Chitrakoot could be the most visited religious place on the planet.
In under ten years Chitrakoot could be the most visited religious place on the planet....
Bernstein recently put out a research on India
Bernstein recently put out a research on India. What this well made research document shows...
The Rejuvenation of Mandakini river in Chitrakoot
The rejuvenation of Mandakini river in Chitrakoot is set to establish a new benchmark not...
Atri Ashram near Khajurao
My visit to the Atri Ashram near Khajurao was kind of transformational in impact. Rishi...
A 1946 document was affixed with Ashok Chakra
Whilst I was researching the Partition, I came across an interesting document in microfilm form....
Chapter 5H: Nehru went about destroying his competitors
Chapter 5H: Nehru went about destroying his competitors. BN ducked out of view. His business...
Chapter 5G: the final blueprint for the division of India was drawn in London in December 1946
Chapter 5G: the final blueprint for the division of India was drawn in London in...
Chapter 5F: Then tragedy struck. And Subhash Chandra Bose met with an air accident
Chapter 5F: Then tragedy struck. And Subhash Chandra Bose met with an air accident. He...
Chapter 5E: Lord Wavell was Commander in Chief of the British Army in India from 1941-43
Chapter 5E: Lord Wavell was Commander in Chief of the British Army in India from...
Chapter 5D: as the worlds attention was primarily drawn to the group “Others”
Chapter 5D: as the worlds attention was primarily drawn to the group “Others” which was...
Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision
“Artificial Intelligence and computer vision is a foundational science. Self-learning and self-programming machines already exist....
Chapter 2: Birth of a conspiracy
Chapter 2F: Two servers, not one!!! And this is something no one ever told you...
Chapter 7C: NPCI, a clone for discover
Chapter 7C: There was just too much happening in 2008. A bunch of engineers in...
Chapter 7D: NPCI, a clone for discover
Chapter 7D: one old Citibank playbook is to merge, demerge, name, rename … back to...
Chapter 8A: Paresh Sukhtankar leaves and Faering Capital rises
Chapter 8A: what is a fair wage for an employee ? Does an employee really...
Big Business is
Chapter 5C: Before we move into the final 30 month lap (15.2.45 to 15.8.47) of a 90 year movement from 1857-1947
Chapter 5C: Before we move into the final 30 month lap (15.2.45 to 15.8.47) of...
Taxology India
A few months ago I had shared a post that it just didn’t make sense...
Chapter 5B: Whenever a powerful job is to be decided, you have speculation
Chapter 5B: Whenever a powerful job is to be decided, you have speculation. Just like...
President and Chief Volunteer
The idea of expanding the ESG framework to ESGG by adding goodness as a fourth...
The Partition Saga Part 5
The final 30 month lap to departure of the British and the imposition of self...
Chapter 4G: Subhash Chandra Bose had reported from German intelligence that the Aga Khan was lobbying for partition of India
Chapter 4G: Subhash Chandra Bose had reported from German intelligence that the Aga Khan was...