January 5, 2021: Trendspotting with Haresh Chawla (and a conversation with Nandan Nilekani); A curator’s reflections on 2020; Our blessed homeland, and their barbarous wastes, updated

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• Nandan Nilekani
• Tom Gauld
• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• trendspotting
• Haresh Chawla
• R Sriram

January 4, 2021: Why we should aspire for a new decentralised economic model; Soumya Swaminathan reflects on the pandemic; The first rule of 2021

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• The Dalai Lama
• decentralised economic model
• leadership
• Soumya Swaminathan
• WHO
• Arun Maira
• Decision Making
• books

December 24, 2020: Reinvigorate our minds: Lessons from The Best Business Books of 2020; The year in photos: uncertainty, joy, and hope; What’s more basic than food?

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• D Shivakumar
• learning to learn
• reflection
• Sarthak Banerjee
• R Sriram
• 2020 in photos
• books

December 23, 2020: The Month of Melody in the Year of Pandemic; Regulators vs Big Tech; It’s all so simple, but

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• Carnatic music
• faith and belief
• Music Season in Chennai
• regulating technology
• Dina Srinivasan
• Ranjani and Gayatri
• Alan W Watts
• Big Tech

December 22, 2020: BCCI’s original sin; How to sell finance in China; The art of disinnovation

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• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
• Robert Kanigel
• China Mutual Fund Livestreaming
• Wangjing Bogle
• Zheng Zhiyong
• Manjul Bhargava
• S Ramanujan
• BCCI
• Sourav Ganguly

December 21, 2020: Agri reforms and the difference between 1991 and 2000; Why you should start playing chess; The logic of evolution

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• Jonathan Rowson
• chess
• agri reforms
• ability to concentrate
• Leonard Mlodinow
• illusion of control
• Arun Maira
• farm bill

December 18, 2020: Jonathan Haidt on happiness; Why RBI needs a more integrated policy; How to think about how the world works; How to square a circle

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• Jonathan Haidt
• RBI policy
• Network Effect
• Happiness and meaningfulness
• Tim Maughan

December 19, 2020: A year of chaos, resilience and opportunity

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• reset opportunities
• India lockdown
• best of 2020
• Ground Realities
• inclusive growth
• Grassroots innovation
• economic slowdown
• Platforms
• Resilience
• World in 2021
• Survival Strategies
• future of work
• future of higher education
• labour law suspension
• labour migration

December 17, 2020: Robert Caro on the history behind ‘We Shall Overcome’; Rahul Matthan on how he takes notes and connects the dots; Noah Galloway on the Al Bundy Effect; The upside of marriage

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• Rahul Matthan
• Resilience
• Al Bundy Effect
• We Shall Overcome
• knowledge management
• Noah Galloway
• Robert Caro

December 6, 2020: Remembering R Narasimha; Reflections on Obama; Predicting 2021

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• Barack Obama
• Learning skills
• Phillippa Perry
• learning to learn
• R Narasimha