Govindraj Ethiraj

India's job crisis 'biggest challenge, biggest opportunity': Naushad Forbes

India has an unemployment, quality of jobs and quality of income challenge, data show. Unemployment in India stood at 8.1% in February 2022, per Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) data

'To tackle covid in rural india, enable at-home care, involve panchayats'

The best way to arrest the Covid surge in India's villages is to rebuild people's trust in public systems, encourage home care and use simple technologies, say experts

Data can be next oil only if it flows freely

Data must be gathered and disseminated swiftly; else it will lead to proxy efforts which will create further confusion

Our world in 2050

Technology has touched all of us in ways we never imagined

Cyber syndromes

A 'cyberpsychologist' has written a thought-provoking book on how the internet is altering our behaviour in fundamental ways

Our digital lives tomorrow

Govindraj Ethiraj: Fintech fear for our financial markets

Banking is first about trust and integrity and then about technology and the rest

Govindraj Ethiraj: Better cities, not just better air

Measures that will make Indian cities more organised and liveable need to be implemented to tackle the menace of pollution

Programmed to deceive

A new book explains the frightening evolution of cyber-warfare and suggests that it's not just governments but organisations too that are vulnerable

Govindraj Ethiraj: Designing Swachh Bharat differently

Raising money through a cess to fund the government's ongoing cleanliness and sanitation campaign suggests that the intial round of efforts did not achieve the objectives fully

Lessons from an early venture capitalist

An ecosystem for hackers, geniuses and geeks

Google's smart creatives

The poor little rich man

The Branson story you didn't know

Tom Bower's new book offers an alternative view of entrepreneur Richard Branson, drawing attention to the need to dig deeper into business excesses

The snoop who's still in the cold

A book on one of the most enigmatic young men of the 21st century tries to decipher what made the 29-year-old Edward Snowden blow the whistle on the world's most powerful spying agency

Govindraj Ethiraj: Has Aadhaar lost its foundation?

The decision to discontinue paying cooking gas subsidies in Aadhaar-linked bank accounts is a big blow to the UIDAI programme. But does it imply that the 'portable' and 'dynamic' identity system is hi

Conquering Earth to reach the moon

Saving the farm

Vijay Govindarajan & Chris Trimble use the analogy of a farm to highlight the change challenges that companies

Is Rajat Gupta guilty? Does it matter?