India – The whataboutery nation
It is an age of whataboutery! Almost every week, some trend start on Internet about violence on muslims. Then there are equal story about violence netted out on Hindus. Curiously very few netizens (twitter handles) are outraged on both and one can see the separation or whataboutery. There are endless stories of justice rather lack of […]
Indian Economy 2019 Crisis : The Crisis of Consumption
Indian Economic Crisis 2019 a) Dr Manmohan singh when he kept it artificially inflated by evergreening the books rather than using that opportunity to fix the sector. Dr Singh is probably the only economist in the world who tried to run a country with high inflation rate (10%+), High NPA and high interest rate and yet considered […]
Liquidity and Businesses
Liquidity is like blood, sudden loss of it can kill an otherwise healthy company/body Companies die due to liquidity issues not because of business model issues. Indian economy is having severe liquidity crunch & like body – a prolonged loss of blood leaves permanent scar
PSUs and theory of Trust
A nation which doesn’t trust its people, will have its own enterprise while a nation which believes in its people will invest in them. That is the fundamental difference between India vs US or China. Indian Govt created PSUs, funded them and crowded out private capital and innovation while US dept of defence helped launched […]
India, The land of experts and committees
Capital & Labour
There is capital and there is labor. Both fight for primacy of each other And where Capital is expensive, labor becomes cheap, and where capital is cheap, labor besoms expensive and gain dignity Incidentally nations leaning on Socialism, keep capital expensive and labor cheap And hard core capitalistic societies keep capital cheap and see labor […]
War & Peace and personal positions in the time of Social Media
You are either a Warmongers or Peaceniks – unfortunately both positions are wrong India is run by an experienced professional setup so leave their job on them and focus on yours. Support nation and keep opinions low Still if you have strong views, do something which costs Ideologies always cost, and if your opinions don’t […]
Tale of Interest rate, debt and Equity : Three Countries
1. The country used high-interest rates to lure international capital (debt). High capital created growth which created high inflation. High inflation devalued currency thus making debt expensive. This led to a balance of payment crisis which in turn killed the economy. Turkey 2. Country capitalized public sector banks. Banks gave huge loans to private enterprises. […]
Being Counter Intuitive & Running Democratic Govts!
Majority of decisions in life and business which leads to survival / 10x growth are counter-intuitive. However Democratic Govt by nature of it, follow popular advice which is intuitive/common sense. So are democratic Govt designed to fail?
Dawn of digtial: The end of Nation State, advent of Corporate State Part I – Mind
One fine morning In India, millions of Android phone users (Google Mobile operating system), discovered a strange phone number in their address book which they have never entered. It was the number of UIDAI helpline, and all hell broke loose (UIDAI is managing Aadhar – a Govt run a biometric program to create a unique […]