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The US dollar hasn’t been stronger since 2000 – it has appreciated: The dominance of the US$ has serious implications for the macroeconomy of almost all countries. Although US share of world trade has declined from 12% to 8% the… Continue reading →

Spoilers ahead… Like in ‘Comali’, Pradeep Ranganathan is better at coming up with unique concepts than in fleshing them out. On the surface, Pradeep Ranganathan’s Love Today is about the apparent shallowness of… love today. When people in earlier generations fell in love, there was the automatic assumption that the couple either fell for each […]

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By ​Vijay Ramanathan Note: YouTube’s vast repository includes a multitude of wonderful movies in many languages – some hidden gems, and some that are hard to find elsewhere. In this series of articles, I will share some of my favorite classic movies freely available on YouTube, along with a brief analysis. The videos are not […]

By ​Eswar On Rohini S.Rajagopal’s memoir of infertility – ‘What’s a lemon squeezer doing in my Vagina?’. In an article about stillbirth, Emily Oster, an American economist, made the following observation: ‘Like miscarriage or birth trauma or countless other parts of pregnancy and parenting, [stillbirth] is not a topic that’s easy to discuss. The result […]

Spoilers ahead… The screenplay is built like a series of mishaps that keep escalating until we get to the biggest mishap of all: getting trapped in the freezer. On one level, Mili is what you’d call a survival thriller: something like Vikramaditya Motwane’s Trapped. The protagonist is trapped in a difficult situation or a difficult […]

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In the news of late has been the outcry from consumers of the increase in the price of domestic airline fares, in some case 300% higher than they were pre-pandmeic. So why have they gone up so much? It’s a… Continue reading →

Always been interested in the Nordic economies especially when you look at their standing in HDI and other indicators like happiness, trust and ease of doing business etc. There is a series of three books that looks at the fundamental… Continue reading →

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Spoilers ahead… The film is confined to a house and the surrounding rubber plantation, which adds to the sense of claustrophobia of being locked in with a toxic patriarch. What kind of father gives his one-year-old son some whiskey? Itty (Alencier Ley Lopez) is that kind of father. When this revelation comes out, it’s not […]

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This is an excellent video from the FT about Brexit. It goes into detail about the costs of leaving a free trade area and how Brexit has impacted small business and investment in the UK. Below are some quotes from… Continue reading →

The acronym started as “BRIC” in 2001, when Goldman Sach’s then-chief economist Jim O’Neill predicted that the economic weight of Brazil, Russia, India and China could eclipse the world’s biggest economies in the next decade. A decade passed, and that… Continue reading →

Spoilers ahead… The film doesn’t even reach the slickness of ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’, which was released in 1981. I mean, 40 years on, have we not reached the same level of visual effects? Adam’s Bridge, also known as Rama’s Bridge or Rama Setu, is a chain of natural limestone shoals that links the […]