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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
From the travails of food-delivery cyclists to Patanjali’s quack medicines to gun culture in Punjab, five handpicked stories on turmoil in India.
Editor's note: The year has nearly come to an end. You might be planning something nice for tomorrow night, or even be on holiday already. But before you move on to the festivities, allow me to present a selection of five of the best stories from The Morning Context’s Chaos section. You’d have seen our free reads on Saturday mornings, bringing new insight into how India works. Our team faces a bewildering choice of ideas to work on. There is just so much happening in India—so much chaos. So we spend a lot of time choosing stories of the greatest priority and urgency, in line with The Morning Context’s vision of “more is less”. This year, too, we saw excellent stories on the environment, climate change and conflicts, which are our principal focus areas. We travelled to the UN climate conference in Egypt, to villages, small towns and ecosystems across India, and also published several defining pieces on gig workers. You can check out all our coverage here. But here is a selection of our favourite stories from the year gone by: …
The country’s woefully inadequate efforts to reduce its reliance on lithium imports could spoil its EV party.
Exploitation of unskilled workers is at the heart of quick-delivery service businesses in India. They should be valued for what they are and not what they pretend to be, a trait that has taken a devious form of wanting it both ways.
With transparent pricing and a zero-commission model, Ownly seems like the first serious challenger to the Zomato-Swiggy duopoly.
