Yesterday a 9 judge bench of the Supreme Court of India gave a so-called historic decision of declaring privacy a fundamental human right now enshrined in the article 21 of the Indian constitution. Many are saying that this for the first time that some verdict is given unanimously by the bench 9 judges. This verdict […]
Category Archives: Analysis
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Aug
Aug
A recent news report said that in India The IT services industry alone is set to lose 6.4 lakh low-skilled positions to automation by 2021. Is this true? Let us scrutinize. What is Artificial Intelligence? As Jerry Kaplan, the author of Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know, has said, there is no one all […]
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Aug
Aug
The second volume of government’s Economic Survey recently flagged a great risk of faltering economic growth in India, and demanded a loose monetary policy stance from the RBI in the form of further easing of the interest rate to combat this downside risk. The report said, Forecasting “greater downside risks” to economic growth, the Survey, […]
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Jul
The on-going stand-off between the armies of the Indian and Chinese nation states on the Sikkim border has created quite a bit of ruckus in the, now very nationalistic, Indian public. People in India are calling for a total boycott of Chinese goods. This demand for boycott of Chinese goods is nothing new. Economics of […]
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Jun
The movie Hindi Medium is based on the mindset of people living in metropolitan (Delhi in this case) and other big cities with reference to educating their children in high-end private schools. ‘Elite’ is the word used in the movie to depict high society parents who do anything to get their children admitted in such […]