Financial Post And Essays

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. If we can get things done by merely dreaming about it then India would have been a developed country long ago. But the thing with smart cities and bullet trains in India is that it is an overly hyped concept of political parties with no ground reality just to fulfil their political mileage at the time of elections. But the question of Is India ready for smart cities? It is the most important question asked at the time of elevating environmental problems and having 13 out of 25 most polluted cities in the world in India. Rather it is the need of the hour for the government to look into the concept of smart cities with pugnacious attitude and with a sense of clairvoyance for the development of future generations. It is a stark reality that India’s population will grow two folds till 2050. The only way to combat all of these problems is to take the concept of smart cities seriously. But the thing is that we cannot merely pluck the future of smart...

The topic of should the state intervene in the following of tradition by the people is more or less the conflict between the Government Vs God, or the state should leave the religion alone? The preamble of the Indian constitution has the word “Secular”, implying that it will not discriminate and patronise in the profession of any religion. As according to the constitution India is a vibrant secular country and the government should not interfere in any religious or cultural practice unless there is a violation of basic human rights as enshrined in the constitution. But there have also been tensions between the secular government vs minority cultural practices, as in the recent case of Triple Talaq and the decision to allow women to enter the Sabarimala Temple.   More to this, the only concern is not just the state leaving religion alone but to give the right to an individual whether to believe in one God or many God. The new scenario of targeting a certain religious group to gain p...

Nuclear weapon testing is considered to be dangerous. It is a deterrent for war. On July 16 1945, New Mexico when the Trinity explosion was successfully completed, Robert J. Oppenheimer said, “ Now I become Death, the destroyer of the world”. He, without knowing the phantom risk and real risk of the atomic bomb, realised that he has developed a recipe of failure and earth will not be a safe haven anymore. After the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear explosion, the words proved to be true and it marked the beginning of the atomic age. Since then the rate of nuclear testing has increased tremendously as a part of the country's self-defence program. Especially between the superpowers like Russia and the United States. Reports suggest that during the period of 1953 to 1968 these two countries have tested so many nuclear weapons that it has created a negative impact on the environment. As most of the nuclear tests have been tested in the northern hemisphere, study shows that it’s natural an...

The halo of ‘invincibility’ that the virus has achieved has made us realise that this is the right occasion to juxtapose a virus with the world’s stockpile of weapons. This is the stark reminder that the most important thing to humans are life, mental health and reintegration with nature. As the local government and authorities cannot turn a blind eye to the pandemic, to curb the spread of it more and more people are being told to stay home and practice self-isolation. While these measures can help you to improve your physical health but can also have an adverse effect on your mental health. The news of getting sacked out of jobs and emotional email all around the corner can trigger anxiety, loneliness and even depression. Time is even tougher for those having the pre-existing condition of OCD(Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). Albeit, the time is tough but there is a silver lining to it, you can make your mind stronger and restrain your anxiety by realising that your sacrific...

The pandemic COVID-19 started in China, while the rest of the world remained oblivious to the crises ahead which could change the course of history. Neither world wars nor 9/11 have impacted the world economy to this extent, but a virus brought the whole world to its knees. Now is the perfect occasion to juxtapose a virus to the world’s stockpile of weapons. In India, the news of job cuts and slowing down of the economy were all around the corner especially in the automobile sector before the pandemic was even started. But it exacerbated this and took other sectors to its control. As the government had only one arsenal of lockdown to stop this virus from spreading, it resulted in zero demand and break-in consumption cycle which affected most of the manufacturing, IT, travel and hospitality sectors. Further, with no generation of wealth, the only options for the big firms were to shoulder the burden with its employees. This led to emotional and distress emails of job cuts, s...

In the recent study conducted, by Comparisun, of 25 individuals company analysed, only eleven have the chance to become a trillionaire during their lifetime. According to the study, Jeff Bezos is most likely to become the first trillionaire by 2026  when he will be aged 62. Despite losing an estimated $38 billion in divorce and even more in the pandemic, Jeff is still the richest persons and his net worth growing at a rate of 34% on average to past five years. With a current net worth of 142.8 billion and if the arithmetic goes right he would easily become a trillionaire($1000 billion) by 2026. There are many other names to this list, India richest Mukesh Ambani could become a trillionaire by 2033 at age 75. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg could gain this title after 2036 with his current growth rate. Alibaba’s Jack Ma could become a trillionaire in 2030 when he will be aged 65. For the study, Comparisun analysed the market capitalisation of the highest value com...

We often get confused between a smartphone and a mobile phone. A smartphone is a mini-computer which has its own operating software(OS) and is capable of performing intelligent tasks like gaming, Internet of things and calling with the help of an application, whereas mobile phones were made to perform a unique task of calling wirelessly. When Martin Cooper developed this technology in 1973, no one knew that it could be reiterated to such an extent and will affect all walks of life and become all-pervasive. The moot question here is that do smartphones or mobile phone have impacted human life. The stark reality is that whether we want it or not life is now incomplete without a smartphone. The amount of time an individual invests in a smartphone on various activities such as social media, gaming, and connecting with different people has made it an integral part of his life. It has become a Hamletian dilemma for humans to decide whether to give up the usage of a smartphone w...