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  • What Creates Culture Also Creates Cult

    What Creates Culture Also Creates Cult

    Published on 5th November, 2021, in The Hindu. Cult refers to religious groups, or brainwashed …

  • For all its noble aspirations, social media is pure business.

    For all its noble aspirations, social media is pure business.

    To make money, you need access to markets. To gain access to markets, you need to make sure that the controller of the market favours you. If the controller of the market shuts the door on you, you have no opportunity to enter the market…

  • The inherent violence of business

    The inherent violence of business

    Unlike many current businessmen, bureaucrats, politicians and activists, the Vedas had a realistic, not romantic, view of violence, hence business…

  • The Idea of the Indian City — a conversation with Devdutt Pattanaik

    The Idea of the Indian City — a conversation with Devdutt Pattanaik

    In conversation with Devdutt Pattanaik, and how he interprets the Idea of the Indian City in context of the rapidly urbanising contemporary India of today…

  • Indianomix –  Mythical or Modern

    Indianomix – Mythical or Modern

    This is an exclusive excerpt from Vivek Dehejia and Rupa Subramanya’s book “Indianomix,”  published by Random House India on Dec. 6. This excerpt is adapted from the fourth section of Chapter 5, “Mythical or Modern?”…