Government Response Stringency Index: a composite measure based upon 9 response indicators including school closures, workplace closures, and travel bans, rescaled to a value from 0 to 100 (100 = strictest response). This Government Response Tracker is from the Blavatnik […]
“To have egg on one’s face” is an American saying, that means that one has done something to make oneself look foolish. On the other hand, the British call a good person or someone to be trusted, “a good egg”. […]
Alongside the alarming trend in the infection rate, the daily newspapers, are full of images of migrant labourers returning to their home states. The sheer scale of this movement is staggering, and it has overwhelmed the infrastructure. They are travelling […]
Trials for an effective cure and vaccine are on in a Seattle laboratory to determine what is the best dosage required to stop the deadly Coronavirus in its tracks. Let us all hope that it arrives just in time to […]
The other evening, I met Prabhakaran Sivathaanu, a batchmate from St. Stephen’s College. The college, which is based in Delhi, belies its age and looks new whenever you visit. However, some of us former students had clearly grown older and […]
Reading about the accidental demise of the legendary NBA basketball player Kobe Bryant, was quite shocking. I was reminded of the famous quote that you may have seen posted on a poster somewhere: “Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes […]
Yuval Noah Harari is an Oxford-educated historian, who teaches world history at Hebrew University, in Jerusalem. He is the author of two acclaimed books Sapiens and Homo Deus. One of my two smart nephews, who went to IIM Bangalore, on […]
Industry 4.0 refers to the production and marketing environment. According to the experts in the retail sector and other business domains, digitization of processes and record-keeping has experienced a quantum jump, from where it has been in the past decade. […]
Historically, the power sector in India has had a poor reputation with countless stories of power-cuts and load-shedding schedules, due to various reasons of incapacity and unfamiliarity with the new technology. Over the recent years, the power grid has been […]