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The impossible export dream If carrying coal to Newcastle is folly, imagine selling premium Indian Single Malt whiskey in the UK, Europe, Canada, the United States and eventually in forty-four countries. This is the story of an intrepid Bengaluru business family, and their trusted employee Ashok Chokalingam who achieved the impossible. Their low-key lifestyle, punishing […]
Read More The Jagdales of Bengaluru Export Amrut ManiaOver the last decade we have become accustomed to public spectacles mounted by the BJP with verve and grandeur. One such is the show on Independence Day. Masterful rhetoric, a mix of humility and extreme confidence and an array of “facts” rolled out by Prime Minister Modi, mesmerize the audience into a fantasy of India […]
Read More Is Modi Mania Waning?Climate change science has taught us that human activity is responsible for adverse meteorological phenomenon like unfavourable weather patterns and degradation of geophysical assets like land or underground water aquifers. This erodes the neat distinction, drawn earlier, between natural disasters – earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, subsidence, floods, epidemics- which could only be managed not prevented, and […]
Read More Disasters kill people & erode development gains.
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