The stories that shaped modern India with new sensibilities

• Read Time : 24 mins

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• India@75
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• Independence Day Special
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The first in a two-part series on seeking solitude in nature. This one is on Landour, that has remained small and serene

• Read Time : 9 mins

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• travelogue
• Landour
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Sridhar Vembu built Zoho by questioning the conventional wisdom. For the longest time, no one took much notice. But now people are curious about what makes him—and Zoho—tick

• Read Time : 28 mins

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• Sridhar Vembu
• software products
• SaaS
• Zoho Schools of Learning
• culture of autonomy and trust
• Girish Mathrubootham
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• Soichiro Honda
• cloud services
• organisational culture
• Zoho
• learning from doing

Monitoring people at work from home is something employers are thinking about. But what about the economic costs, technical issues, legal implications and ethical aspects?

• Read Time : 8 mins

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• privacy and security
• Work From Home
• monitoring employees

Mainstream economic theories do not fit reality. Two new books, ‘Measuring What Counts’ and ‘Good Economics for Hard Times’, provide a counterview: Instead of treating people as data, listen to them, and find answers to their real problems for inclusive, sustainable progress

• Read Time : 17 mins
• 2 Comments

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• economic thoery
• Joseph Stiglitz
• Esther Duflo
• sustainable growth
• Measuring What Counts
• books
• Jean-Paul Fitoussi
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• inclusive growth
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• Abhijit Banerjee
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Why simple rules of thumb often outperform complex models

• Read Time : 16 mins
• 7 Comments

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• Data
• Probability
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