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Others
Boeing’s CEO’s

This connects to several posts on what CEOs should be paid and why ? But...

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Tata saga
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...

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Learning’s
How the JAMUNS are warning us

Such observations are thought provoking. Now even scientists are saying that we are heading for...

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AI
Q4B: to continue from my last post

Q4B: to continue from my last post: https://lnkd.in/g8vqnFVi * on what India is doing to...

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AI
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...

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AI
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...

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AI
Q3 : again from Charles Assisi

Q3 : again from Charles Assisi *You noted that TCS historically ran a massive volume-based...

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AI
Q2: cash on books

A leading media channel called to check if I would be open to a debate...

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AI
Q1 from Charles Assisi

I will take a hundred journalist questions on ai in June. Some of these are...

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Social ventures
Aatmanirbharta Needs Patient Capital

Dipak Gupta usually has a sharp, well researched narrative. As Chair of the largest private...

502
AI
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...

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AI
Argentina Moves to Legalize “Non-HumanCorporations” Run by AI

A few months ago I had shared a post on how an ai was doing...

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Uncategorized
Most Profitable Banks in India

In the banking industry, profitability is an accountants opinion. The figure stated is an illusion....

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Events
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...

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IIT Alumni
Super 1000

Super 1000. Augmenting human intelligence faster than ai. Batch One to start academic year 2026-27....

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Deeptech
Adani Power just overtook Infosys in market cap.

Adani Power just overtook Infosys in market cap. A thermal power producer is now worth...

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Uncategorized
Builders of a new India #2

Builders of a new India #2Deendayal Shodh Sansthan is a rural transformation catalyst like no...

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Startup’s
Luckin coffee

Luckin coffee effect in India. Is a coffee shop about coffee or is it about...

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Public policy
Delhi Gymkhana Club

Right to property is not a fundamental right. And there is misuse of the lease...

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AI
Spectacles have not changed for three hundred years.

Spectacles have not changed for three hundred years. First lenses were made from glass by...

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IIT Alumni
Megaspheres

Till now, it was salesmen who dominated the AI narrative. All kinds of goods from...

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IIT Alumni
MegaSpheres

In April 2025, the IIT Alumni Council presented MegaSpheres to the Boards of some of...

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Events
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...

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Hdfc saga
HDFC Saga Continues

HDFC Saga ContinuesCitibank Playbook 101: what cannot be done directly, figure out a way to...

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AI
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...

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Tata saga
Breach of Trusts

The Indian Trust Act needs a major and emergency overhaul. Right now it is no...

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Transport
Air India

Air India cannot be turned around !!! Period. Every problem does not have a solution....

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Tata saga
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...

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Current affairs
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...

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Current affairs
What is the end game with Pakistan ??

What is the end game with Pakistan ??It is a question without any clear answer....

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AI
The world’s First Mechanical Computer

To get to matching the human brain, we need about a million times of the...

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AI
Sir Chris Hohn

Sir Chris Hohn is betting pretty much everything he has on three core areas –...

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Current affairs
The Cockroach Janta Party

It is so easy to criticize, but real challenge is in finding practical solutions that...

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Current affairs
Raghu Rai will never die because photographs outlive us

Raghu Rai will never die because photographs outlive us. The moment will go but the...

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Current affairs
The Cockroach Janta Party

The Cockroach Janta Party can go way beyond a joke if not curtailed. We have...

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Others
The Great Consumption Shift

The havoc caused by cybercrime, rupee export and illegal retailing is crippling our economy. And...

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IIT Alumni
World Wisdom Forum

The main commonwealth stadium in New Delhi can easily host 150,000 people. By adding the...

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Current affairs
Who will judge the judges ?

Who will judge the judges ? And what are they here to judge ? What...

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Tata saga
What not to do is often a more important decision

Most management thought is focused on “what to do ? How to do ? When...

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AI
AI seems to have a bias ?

AI seems to have a bias ? Who is inducing this bias and how ?...

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IIT Alumni
The IIT Alumni

The IIT Alumni Change Leaders Meet at Kimaya Restaurant in Pune on Sunday concluded with...

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Tata saga
Tata portfolio needs fundamental correction

Undoing what the current Tata leadership has done is neither easy. Nor fully reversible. The...

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Tata saga
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...

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Tata saga
85% of Tata Sons income is from TCS

There is nothing ethical about how shares are sold to the public in a India....

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Tata saga
TCS shares were pledged to raise loans

Citibank was THE havala bank of India. The who’s who of India send money abroad...

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Tata saga
Why was TCS spun out of Tata Sons?

To understand the why, one has to step back to 1991 – the year when...

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Tata saga
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...

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Deeptech
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...

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Environment
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...

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Tata saga
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,...

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Tata saga
Tata Sons as a category 2 AIF

The current state of Tatas is the result of poor professional advice and a malafide...

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Environment
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....

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Tata saga
House of TATAS

Tata is India. And if the Tatas go down, it would be akin to sovereign...

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Current affairs
No Degree? No Advice on Social Media

Regulators need to stop influencers who may be acting for bad players. A classic case...

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Current affairs
Corporate India on Investment Strike

The “Investment Strike”: Why India Inc. is Staying on the Sidelines 🇮🇳. Investment is at...

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Uncategorized
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...

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Deeptech
Hindustan Zinc

Marwari model of mismanagement vs the Tata model of getting mismanaged. The resilience of both...

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Social ventures
Cluster Network

One district one product: FailedCluster manufacturing: FailedSEZ mfg : yet to succeed. If we look...

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Energy
Tata finale

Tata finale. It’s not about a meeting or about a law. It is about survival....

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Learning’s
Learning vs Teaching

Learning vs TeachingDiscovering vs InventingRealising vs being instructed. Deep in the interiors of the tribal...

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Events
The occasion of Ma Sita’s birthday

On the occasion of Ma Sita’s birthday, I was at the Sati Anusuya Ashram. This...

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Learning’s
The Higher Education model in India is broken

The Higher Education model in India is broken. And this time, it is NOT the...

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Environment
Water water everywhere But not a drop to drink

Water water everywhere. But not a drop to drink. My interaction with water warriors has...

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Environment
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...

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AI
Delhi Chapter : IITK Alumni Association

Is India on the right path in ai ? This was my question to the...

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Social ventures
The Chaat Party

38 years ago, a Chaat party united a fraternity and created a movement – the...

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Social ventures
The House of TATA

Who owns a Trust ? Who actually owns the Tata Group shares ? More important...

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AI
Final Stage of the AI bubble?

The bubble burst is now under 18 months away. Under could mean three or a...

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AI
The Systemic Risk to the Indian Economy

Ai is not going to disrupt the Indian economy in the next 36 months. But...

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Social ventures
The Aravalli Biodiversity Park

The Aravalli Biodiversity Park, the Yamuna Biodiversity Park and five others in and around New...

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Social ventures
River Rejuvenation

River rejuvenation has a new role model in the making – the Mandakini river in...

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Social ventures
Daiki Axis

Reinventing water and sanitation is not easy. As a country, we haven’t even tried. We...

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Deeptech
Google breaks all records

Google and Meta evade over Rs 100,000 crores of GST and over Rs 75,000 crore...

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Social ventures
No more deposits in private banks

I actually think this is a very good step. When HDFC goes down or if...

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Social ventures
TATA Docomo

Even to be a sweeper in the municipality or a Daroga in the police you...

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Social ventures
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....

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Social ventures
Bernstein recently put out a research on India

Bernstein recently put out a research on India. What this well made research document shows...

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Social ventures
The Rejuvenation of Mandakini river in Chitrakoot

The rejuvenation of Mandakini river in Chitrakoot is set to establish a new benchmark not...

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Environment
Atri Ashram near Khajurao

My visit to the Atri Ashram near Khajurao was kind of transformational in impact. Rishi...

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Partition saga
A 1946 document was affixed with Ashok Chakra

Whilst I was researching the Partition, I came across an interesting document in microfilm form....

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Partition saga
Chapter 5H: Nehru went about destroying his competitors

Chapter 5H: Nehru went about destroying his competitors. BN ducked out of view. His business...

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Partition saga
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...

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Uncategorized
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...

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Partition saga
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...

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Uncategorized
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...

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No Image
Uncategorized

A IIT or IIM grad usually chose a jobEither overseas or for a MNC in...

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Uncategorized

The really difficult question ?When faced with a conflict between ethical and commercial.Which option do...

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Uncategorized

This post takes me back to September 2003. I was one of hundred odd participants...

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Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision

“Artificial Intelligence and computer vision is a foundational science. Self-learning and self-programming machines already exist....

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Uncategorized
Chapter 2: Birth of a conspiracy

Chapter 2F: Two servers, not one!!! And this is something no one ever told you...

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Uncategorized
Chapter 7C: NPCI, a clone for discover

Chapter 7C: There was just too much happening in 2008. A bunch of engineers in...

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Uncategorized
Chapter 7D: NPCI, a clone for discover

Chapter 7D: one old Citibank playbook is to merge, demerge, name, rename … back to...

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Uncategorized
Chapter 8A: Paresh Sukhtankar leaves and Faering Capital rises

Chapter 8A: what is a fair wage for an employee ? Does an employee really...

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No Image
Uncategorized
Big Business is

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Partition saga
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...

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Partition saga
Taxology India

A few months ago I had shared a post that it just didn’t make sense...

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Partition saga
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...

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IIT Alumni
President and Chief Volunteer

The idea of expanding the ESG framework to ESGG by adding goodness as a fourth...

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Partition saga
The Partition Saga Part 5

The final 30 month lap to departure of the British and the imposition of self...

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Partition saga
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...