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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Cycling through bad news on social media is doing our heads in. It’s also one of the few recourses open to us in a failing democracy.
It was on the night of 26 July, 2005—some 10 hours after wading through chest-high turbid waters dotted with floating cars, overturned rickshaws, bobbing buses, and the bloated carcasses of bandicoots and street dogs—that I became an active participant in the early aughts version of doomscrolling.
There were no smartphones, no high-speed internet, and no social media other than Orkut and a then-nascent Facebook. And on that fateful day, there was no mobile connectivity either. Yet, Mumbai doomscrolled. The city had gone under after receiving 944mm of rain in less than 24 hours, its highest ever. The ones who’d survived …
India’s second-largest brokerage by active clients wants to handle IPOs as a merchant banker. But gaining a foothold in the highly competitive sector is easier said than done.
Influence cannot be manufactured through diaspora networks, carefully branded events or political donations. It requires honesty and credibility.
Chinese diplomats to India are saying all the right things for Indian ears, but Beijing’s policy actions are moving in the opposite direction.
