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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
If you have to rely on the triumphs of others to feel good about yourself, if you need the deeds of others to find personal validation, then the problem lies within you.
Editor's note: There is a new India being weaned. An India that happily waves its chubby little hands and legs at the shiny objects—Philip Kotler awards, photoshopped images of Daddy surrounded by admiring world leaders or decked out in military fatigues and standing in the turret of a battle tank—dangled over its crib. Myths about a glorious past are its preferred bedtime stories; the promise of a return to that imaginary past pacifies its occasional tantrums and lulls it into soporific stupor. The result is an inbred sense of entitlement; a belief that we were, and continue to be, the best at whatever we chose to turn our hand to. That all we have to do is to just show up. That entitlement was on full display on the night of 24 October, when the Pakistan cricket team decimated the Indian team in its opening encounter of the World T20 championship now under way. Before the game, the editor of a TV channel positioned it as a matchup between the Indian army and the “merchants of cricket”. Immediately following the toss, prominent …
If you have to rely on the triumphs of others to feel good about yourself, if you need the deeds of others to find personal validation, then the problem lies within you.
Editor's note: There is a new India being weaned. An India that happily waves its chubby little hands and legs at the shiny objects—Philip Kotler awards, photoshopped images of Daddy surrounded by admiring world leaders or decked out in military fatigues and standing in the turret of a battle tank—dangled over its crib. Myths about a glorious past are its preferred bedtime stories; the promise of a return to that imaginary past pacifies its occasional tantrums and lulls it into soporific stupor. The result is an inbred sense of entitlement; a belief that we were, and continue to be, the best at whatever we chose to turn our hand to. That all we have to do is to just show up. That entitlement was on full display on the night of 24 October, when the Pakistan cricket team decimated the Indian team in its opening encounter of the World T20 championship now under way. Before the game, the editor of a TV channel positioned it as a matchup between the Indian army and the “merchants of cricket”. Immediately following the toss, prominent …
The kingdom and its sovereign fund pull back on splashy global bets to focus on domestic returns as war and realities reshape priorities
Abu Dhabi’s Aldar and Dubai Residential REIT deliver strong earnings, UAE exits OPEC amid rising Gulf tensions and other news updates.
The homegrown social startup is betting big on India’s latest content obsession—minute-long episodes of high-stakes dramas. Cut through the noise and the microdrama hype itself doesn’t add up.
The kingdom and its sovereign fund pull back on splashy global bets to focus on domestic returns as war and realities reshape priorities
Abu Dhabi’s Aldar and Dubai Residential REIT deliver strong earnings, UAE exits OPEC amid rising Gulf tensions and other news updates.
The homegrown social startup is betting big on India’s latest content obsession—minute-long episodes of high-stakes dramas. Cut through the noise and the microdrama hype itself doesn’t add up.
