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238 ArticlesOpinion

11 / 24

Guest Post: The Airtel Zero idea: Splitting India’s Internet into many Internets

This is a guest post by Nikhil Pahwa, found at Medianama, where this article was first published. Nikhil is working hard to make the understanding of Net ...

Off-Topic: All is Fair in Love, War and Exams

It’s exam time not just for students apparently.  Parents too are getting into it and scaling new heights, almost literally: Photo by AP/Press Trust of ...

Is Firing People with 3 Months Severance Pay Unfair? I don’t think so.

Our earlier post, The Inflexion Point for the IT industry, generated a lot of interest. There were more than 140 comments and it’s been quite a revealing ...

The Inflexion Point for the IT Service Industry (Long)

This is a long post. It’s meant as weekend reading, and I would love to hear your thoughts: deepakshenoy at capitalmind.in or comment on this page. ...
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We Need More Financial Institutions and To Let Indians Invest in Them

Our financial institutions have, for the most part, failed us. LIC is the biggest receiver of savings as a public insurer, and yet, it puts very little of its ...

3 Things in My TV Interview Last Week: Coffee, IT and Crude Oil Hedges

I was interviewed at ET Now last week, on the morning show with Ayesha Faridi and Niraj Shah. I’ve been itching to bring you more details. Wake Up And ...

Can Apple Pay Clear The Way For Two Factor Payments in India?

Apple introduced a new system called Apple Pay where you hold the phone next to a little device at a shop, and touch a button, and voila, the payment is made. ...

Rulings on Cars and Coal Will Take Their Toll, Haunted by the Past

Two rulings have spooked markets yesterday, and the impact continues today. First the Supreme Court declared that all coal block allotments since 1993 were ...

The Inconvenient Investigations Into Banking

In “Rot at the Top”, Sucheta Dalal talks about the corruption in the Banking system. SK Jain’s arrest in a bribe case, where the promoter of Bhushan ...

Taibbi On Crony Capitalism, And Me on How It’s All Familiar to us Indians

In one of his last pieces for Rolling Stone, the brilliant Matt Taibbi writes about a piece of legislation in the US that has probably equalled and even ...