Make (Index) In India
India has 800 million Internet users. Fiji has 0.8 million Internet users. Still the latest global digitalization index ranks India below Fiji because 70% of Fiji nationals have access to…
Future Of Media
In Why Media Can’t Be Neutral, I speculated many reasons why media will inevitably exhibit bias. While the common man or woman (henceforth J6P) might agree with those reasons, I don't…
Securities Regulator Is Not Financial Advisor
Every time a stock tanks after an IPO, the common man or woman (henceforth J6P) blames Securities and Exchange Board of India, the securities / capital markets regulator of India.…
Tirumala Tirupati Updates 2024
I went to Tirumala Tirupati during 22-26 June 2024. Here are some updates of this trip. 1. DARSHAN WAITING TIME I booked the INR 300 Special Darshan ticket for Tirumala…
Safety Of Money: Bank v. Neobank
Fintech Mafia Carousel Pumping is the circular shilling of one another's financial products and services by a bunch of fintech founders with least regard for truth or consumer interest. I…
No More Business Class In EU
To: editet@timesgroup.com Subject: No More Business Class? Dear Editor of Economic Times: This has reference to the op-ed titled "No More Business Class?" by Ludovic Subran in today's edition of…
Why Media Can’t Be Neutral
There's a lot of public discourse about media neutrality (or the lack of it). People keep telling journalists, "Just state the facts and spare the opinion." According to me, unbiased…
Google Play Store – Small Brother Shouldn’t Act Like Big Brother!
To: editet@timesgroup.com Subject: Big Tech, Don't Be A Big Brother Dear Editor of Economic Times: This has reference to the op-ed entitled Big Tech, Don't Be A Big Brother by…
First Impressions of GPT-4o
OpenAI released GPT-4o yesterday. Pronounced "Four Oh", the latest version of GPT combines audio, vision, and text in a single Large Language Model. I got access to GPT-4o earlier today.…
UPI – Too Many Or Not Nearly Enough Players?
On the one hand, there are 48 Payments Services Providers offering UPI payments in India. Which is a lot. On the other hand, many people say there are very few…