Year: 2016
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Transport
Will the Trump Train Trump the Train?
How the 45th US president-elect and the issues that dominated his high-voltage election campaign will actually turn out as a…
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Analyses
Why do People Pay a Couple of Lakhs a Year for Kindergarten?
It looks like most people aren’t aware of the fact that primary school tuition fees for one year of LKG-UKG…
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Analyses
Oppam, Drishyam and how Police are Depicted in our Movies
Oppam was a much-hyped Malayalam movie starring Mohanlal, hyped because it was directed by Priyadarshan. The actor-director duo who are…
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Analyses
The Chinese Variables in the Kashmir Equation
Apart from the valley, Kashmir consists of mostly desolate, sparsely populated, mountainous wasteland. Have you ever wondered what could possibly be…
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L I F E
How we Fail Soumya and all (Poor) Seekers of Justice
So, India is a wonderful democratic country under the rule of the law and constitution that even an alleged beggar…
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L I F E
The People Who Valued Bags More Than Their Lives
What seems to have attracted more attention than the fact that all 300 souls on board Emirates flight EK521 TRV-DXB…
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L I F E
Is Conformism the Key to Happiness?
The most overlooked among all the philosophical premises of The Matrix is the very concept it is based upon, which…
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Techonomics
On Dynamic/Surge Pricing: There is no Free-Market
There are a lot of things in the world that we obey and take for granted without questioning, many of…
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Techonomics
The System that Rewards only the Rich – In the Context of the Sub-Prime Crisis
Watched the financial-thriller-drama movie “The Big Short” the other day. As you might already know, the movie is on the…
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Opinion
To All Those Who Deride BMTC and Public Transport
The general contempt and hate the so-called new-generation upwardly mobile, MNC-employed, high-flying, English-speaking, car-driving, snobby, westernized self-appointed hypocritical middle-class Indians (but who…
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L I F E
Missing a Train and the Philosophy of Reason
Human beings are hardwired to always look for patterns and reasons in everything, which is why we keep on wondering…
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Careers, Investing
India’s Obsession with Engineering Degress
Looking at how things are unfolding, India might be facing a major youth unemployment crisis in the near future. Millions…
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