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World Wisdom Bulletin
World Wisdom Bulletin, the global tech show under the World Wisdom initiative reached a hundred...
Income Tax Officer Becomes RWA President
Recent cases of misuse of power by govt officials taking up elected non-profit roles to...
IIT Alumni Council released the first volume in the Vishwaguru Series
On the 15th of August, the IIT Alumni Council released the first volume in the...
Beyond Duty,Beyond Pay
There is an extremely unhealthy practice which has taken on unimaginable proportions. Working government officers...
Japan Design Award 2026
The Japan Design Award 2026 finally goes to an Indian. This is such a well...
Can Nija beat Apple in the smartphone war ?
Can Nija beat Apple in the smartphone war ? When we started Nija, it was...
Data centre
Data centre cooling has two fundamental approaches. One is to remove heat so as to...
Mesopotamia was never the Cradle of Civilisation . India Was.
History is created by historians. Not by events or reality. As a keen student of...
Transforming Innovations to Impact & Launch of ICTTH
It is interesting to see India’s new universities like Sharda actually create global recognition for...
The Leadership Behind L&T’s Transformation
Vikram – most of this is not true. In fact I don’t even think SNS...
Cockroach Janta Party
Cockroach party violent protest led to lathi charging. It is the kind of thing that...
AI is Bad for Humanity
Everyone is talking about AI for Good. Very few are willing to discuss AI for...
India in Middle-Income Trap?
The dilemma for a government is who to listen. The bureaucrats in the government are...
Deal with Tata
Corporate Credibility is key. If the Tatas are involved, their credibility is really the nations...
TSMC ARIZONA CORPORATION
Semiconductor manufacturing like any major industry is an ecosystem game. If a company has to...
India’s first Generative Ai platform was launched by the iIT Alumni Council.
Way back in April 2022, India’s first Generative Ai platform was launched by the iIT...
Zerodha spent 15 years helping retail investors buy shares.
I have met Nithin Kamath just once when he was nice enough to take a...
Wisdom comes in shades of grey
Wisdom comes in shades of grey I always joke. But it is increasingly coming through...
Xi Promises AI for All in Debut at China’s Top Tech Summit
The cheap replica market has the same principles. Doesn’t matter whether it is jeans or...
Imagine getting eye surgery… at 30,000 feet.
There is way more than meets the eye here. 90% of the worlds private planes...
40 years is a long time to be building businesses.
I was fortunate to have Nikunj as my hostel mate and senior at IIT. The...
Kudankulam nuclear plant data leak sparks “absolute commotion”
Yotta is a data centre build by a real estate developer. Reliance Infrastructure is a...
Coconut Cola
I understand the gst angle. Fizzy cola attracts 40% gst. And quick commerce players want...
New York has banned data centres over 50 MW.
New York has banned data centres over 50 MW. It is reflective of two things...
Ready for 10 sec challenge ?
A cat does not need a college degree to learn to catch a mouse. A...
Govt Working with AI Cos for Models on Par with Mythos
This is necessary but unfortunately every problem does not have a solution. It is creditable...
Richer, not Happier
Dear Friends, I am sharing my recent Business India article, “Richer, not Happier: The Hidden...
TCS Rejigs 14 Top Roles
Another paid PR release pretending to be media coverage. This time one full page of...
Netanyahu Cites Support of 1.4 Billion Indians
India’s job is not to take sides in a war. Especially when it is not...
Tripura Community Wealth Mission 2035
India awakens to a new dawn. Led by the north east. As we move away...
Core objective of free markets is market discovery of prices
The core objective of free markets is market discovery of prices. It doesn’t matter if...
TATA vs Foxconn in race to the top
Some races are not worth contesting in. The race to be a contract manufacturer for...
How the US soared to the heights of dangerous greatness
The United States did not become a superpower because it loved freedom. It became a...
China conquered the world through factories.
China conquered the world through factories. They copied the American model of mass slavery disguised...
Ai kills thinking just like calculators killed basic mathematical ability
Brain Capital = brain health + skillsBrain Capital >> Ai CapitalBut Ai capital is growing...
Mahakumbh at Prayagraj in 2025, Swami Suryanil
At the Mahakumbh at Prayagraj in 2025, Swami Suryanil 🙏🏻 shared the conclusion of his...
Judicial Accountability
In December 2001, I got a call from a security guard saying the CEO had...
CJI flags delay in creation of Arbitration Council
The Arbitration Council idea should be thrown in the garbage bin, never to be retrieved....
TATA Group Looking to Double Auto Revenue to $100b in 5 yrs
Volkswagen is at USD 300 billion in sales. And is close to bust. Sacking a...
Samosa beats Burgers!
My first exposure to Haldiram was in 1996 when they applied to UP State Financial...
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...