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Published on 30th June, 2018, on The Economic Times blog. Business is about efficiency. There is always a great push towards standardised manufacturing and business practices, and a yearning for homogenous markets. However, the reality is that the world is diverse—and so you have to continuously modify and adapt manufacturing, sales and marketing practices to meet the diverse market conditions you encounter in the world. In other words, diversity makes our lives inefficient. This is one idea that no one in the business world wants to admit. Take a look at the US dollar bill. The United States of America is built on the shoulders ..

Published on 25th June, 2017, in Mid-day. In extremist Christian America, evolution is a bad word. Children are taught Creationism, or Intelligent Design, which insists on the role of God in creating the world. Anyone who opposes them is aligned to the Devil. Likewise, in extremist Hindutva India, and extremist Hindutva America, Aryan Migration Theory (AMT) is a bad idea. It is seen as a sanitised version of the old discarded colonial Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT). According to AMT, based on linguistic and genetic evidence, a group of people came to India 4,000 years ago. In all probability, they called themselves Aryans, had tamed horses, ..