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From Russia With Love… Putin’s Fog of War

The crux of the conflict is located in Vladimir Putin’s vision of Russia not as it is but as he sees it. The dare has jolted the West out…

5 min readFeb 20, 2022

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Archaic Laws Criminalise Entrepreneurs

Three decades Licence Raj was dismantled, Inspector Raj persists . Businesses must navigate 26,134 compliances hosting the threat of…

5 min readFeb 13, 2022

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Archaic Laws Criminalise Entrepreneurs

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Earth Day: Wars, Plastics, Notions and Non Sequiturs

A Reality Check. 55th #Earth Day. 📈 Emissions are rising. ♻️ Use of plastics rises to 1 Mn bottles/min, 5 Trn bags/year. 🌊 Microplastics…

5 min read2 days ago

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Earth Day: Wars, Plastics, Notions and Non Sequiturs

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Matthew Effect and Inflationary Geopolitics

The privileged — persons and nations — are gaming and aggravating global crises. Billionaires add wealth. Advanced nation policies haunt…

5 min readApr 14, 2024

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Matthew Effect and Inflationary Geopolitics

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The Curse of Water Crisis in Urban India

There is scarcely any city not facing water cuts. Cities power the India Story. Nearly 100/543 LS constituencies are urban yet the water…

5 min readApr 7, 2024

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The Curse of Water Crisis in Urban India

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#Elections2024: Mapping First Choice Trends of First Time Voters

First-time voters from every decade — from the 1950s to 2020s — were asked who they would vote for in 2024. The shift in allegiance away…

9 min readMar 31, 2024

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#Elections2024: Mapping First Choice Trends of First Time Voters

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Spectre of Higher for Longer Inflation, Interest Rates and Cost of Capital

Stocks are up. So are gold and Bitcoin. The US Federal Reserve is signalling that central banks will tolerate higher inflation for longer…

5 min readMar 24, 2024

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Spectre of Higher for Longer Inflation, Interest Rates and Cost of Capital

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#Elections 2024: Issues Parties Should But Do Not Debate

Campaigns are interpretations of maladies accompanied by manifestos with pious promises. On the face of it India is the fifth largest and…

5 min readMar 17, 2024

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#Elections 2024: Issues Parties Should But Do Not Debate

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#2024 Elections: Do or Die Battle for Congress

Nehru presented the idea of a larger than life India. Indira leveraged nationalism and pro-poor politics. Rajiv propelled a vision of…

5 min readMar 10, 2024

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India’s Economy: Known Knowns and Known Unknowns

Every episode of the state of the economy finds folks in binary corners of ricocheting rhetoric. At 7.6 % GDP growth is better than…

5 min readMar 3, 2024

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India’s Economy: Known Knowns and Known Unknowns

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Shankkar Aiyar

Shankkar Aiyar

Journalist-Analyst. Author of ‘Accidental India, ‘Áadhaar: A Biometric History’ and ‘The Gated Republic’. Studying how politics rules the economics of people!

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