Category: General Thinking

  • Disruption of Education

    Education has always had a problem At the outset of the Industrial Revolution, there was a terrible labour shortage. To meet the labour needs, factory owners started recruiting kids and putting them to work. Kids being subjected to such hard work, foul language, violent accidents and sexual abuse were considered a social problem.  As the…

  • Inflation in the times of COVID

    When people get out of the lockdown in India and get back to work/shopping, the one noticeable change that they are going to find is in the prices.  All the discounts have disappeared!  A meal that I would cost me about Rs. 300 now costs me Rs. 550. The cab ride which I would have…

  • Disruption of Real Estate

    Real Estate will perhaps be the worst-hit industry in the aftermath of this pandemic. Several industries are changing and one does not know what the future looks like. None is going to be as badly disrupted as Real Estate.  Structure Real Estate is often classified into two categories – Commercial and Residential. Demand for commercial…

  • Positive Externality and CoronaVirus

    Positive Externality is a concept of economics which describes an unintended positive outcome of an action. For example, the Singapore government wanted to reduce pollution and started charging a fee to drive in the CBD. This resulted in the CBD becoming safer for older people wishing to walk there, which was a positive externality. I…

  • The rise of New York

    There is a really great visualisation of how the cases in America, which started out as a trickle and rose to unseen numbers. New York ended up with the largest number of cases at the end of it and has take the worst hit in the world. You can go ahead and open the file…

  • Economy – after COVID

    Every economy in the world today has two types of income centres – Internal Consumption and External Consumption.  Internal consumption is all of the things bought and used by the people of your own country. External Consumption is all of the things that you sell to other countries because you are either really good at…

  • It is all testing stupid

    I have been following the number for more than 1 month now. I have watched the numbers take off in several countries as CoronaVirus peaks havoc across the globe. There are countries like South Korea and Japan that have been able to fight the disease quite well and then Germany which has managed to keep…

  • How Flipkart exited my life

    In February 2012, Amazon launched in India. I was a puritan at the time and wanted to support Indian startups. So I stuck to Flipkart. I would not order on Amazon at all. I even bought e-Books on Flipkart, which they used to sell at the time. Then the delayed a few orders and shut…

  • Disney+ joins the Streaming Wars

    Disney+ came live in India through Hotstar on the 3rd April. Streaming services like Netflix and Hotstar have been the greatest beneficiaries of the CoronaVirus Outbreak. With several people staying at home there are certain businesses that are bound to do well. While people are working from home, they are saving between 1-4 hours of…

  • Flights… Flying No Longer

    I have some weird interests that I pursue. One of them to sit and watch flights across the planet on flightradar. On a normal day, there are more 102,000 flights that take off around the world. That number has come down significantly and in the west, all the airlines have done to their governments; bowl…