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Carbon sinks: The good and the bad

The oceans have caught the attention of climate policymakers, but many of their ideas are too radical

A viral message in the Moderna story

In The Messenger, The Wall Street Journal reporter Peter Loftus charts the journey of Moderna from being a languishing biotech start-up to one of the biggest financial beneficiaries of the pandemic

The integrated circuit wars

US chip sanctions on China should be a wake-up call for India to quickly scale up and boost its capabilities in this critical arena

Reflections on life and success, without flashy mantras

Ashok Ganguly's recently released memoir is refreshingly different from the standard autobiographies. A lot like the man himself - unpretentious, matter-of-fact and pulling no punches

The limits of CPI: It doesn't capture the true cost of living

Consumer price index boasts of a rigorous and robust design, but there are quite a few issues with it

Tencent: Rise and hubris

Lulu Yilun Chen's book takes a detailed look at the Chinese digital giant's birth, its rise, and market battles

Surviving in India's family-owned company

By the second generation, no matter whether the family of the founder holds enough shares or not, it is relatively rare to see scions actually running operations

Rethinking the coal issue

What the government needs to realise is that coal demand cannot be ignored for at least three decades, if not more

The long-term hurdles to India's export growth

No country has succeeded in becoming a merchandise export powerhouse unless its quality standards are uniformly high

Too many flip-flops and about-turns

Policy rollbacks and modifications happening too frequently spook businessmen - both domestic and global

Michael Dell and the big turnaround

Dell Computers is one of the survivors that rode the original IBM-compatible PC wave and managed to successfully reinvent itself when that market became a low-margin commodity play

A true picture of the post-pandemic future

There are very few issues that the report has failed to mention or explore in depth

The carbon cost of data

It is estimated that the cloud industry consumes more power than many nation states, and it is a bigger emitter than the global aviation industry

The PayPal mafia

The gist of the PayPal history is known to those who follow Silicon Valley history

Learning from the Ukraine experience

The fact that the number of Indian students who go abroad for studies is increasing every year is well-known

Covid-19: Avoiding old mistakes

The world, and particularly India, needs to be cautious and prepared for the worst

The green issues of tomorrow

Even while these efforts are underway, new threats to the environment are cropping up.

Whose company is it?

The Invesco vs the Goenkas saga will see a long-drawn-out court battle before shareholders get any chance to vote on any proposal by the management or Invesco

The Lord of Short Videos

This is a great primer in a developing story and highly recommended

The tech landscape is changing

The action against big tech in the US could affect start-ups in other countries like India both positively and negatively