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Context is everything.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
If nothing was random, and this had happened, what was it meant to teach the world? What were we all meant to understand?
Editor's note: When the pandemic broke out earlier this year, I was in Rome. News had filtered through before I left Delhi at the end of February that the north of Italy was under “lockdown”. What does that mean, I wondered? I left anyway, despite some misgiving—I was to be in Rome for new book research. I’d been granted funds. I needed access to specialist libraries, and museums, and reading rooms. I couldn’t not go. Same for a friend, Justine, who flew in from Berlin and joined me at Fiumicino airport. Justine is a playwright, and after several struggles on the personal front, she was emerging to give herself a break, a small sabbatical, to rejuvenate, to work on a new play. So we booked an old apartment in Trastevere, to work, to live, to be in Rome for three weeks. This was our plan. The chaos crept up on us slowly. When we arrived, and made ourselves at home, settling in, the city still bustled busily around us. Hand sanitiser, forebodingly, was out of stock. Luckily we’d brought our own. We …
If nothing was random, and this had happened, what was it meant to teach the world? What were we all meant to understand?
Editor's note: When the pandemic broke out earlier this year, I was in Rome. News had filtered through before I left Delhi at the end of February that the north of Italy was under “lockdown”. What does that mean, I wondered? I left anyway, despite some misgiving—I was to be in Rome for new book research. I’d been granted funds. I needed access to specialist libraries, and museums, and reading rooms. I couldn’t not go. Same for a friend, Justine, who flew in from Berlin and joined me at Fiumicino airport. Justine is a playwright, and after several struggles on the personal front, she was emerging to give herself a break, a small sabbatical, to rejuvenate, to work on a new play. So we booked an old apartment in Trastevere, to work, to live, to be in Rome for three weeks. This was our plan. The chaos crept up on us slowly. When we arrived, and made ourselves at home, settling in, the city still bustled busily around us. Hand sanitiser, forebodingly, was out of stock. Luckily we’d brought our own. We …
Indian youngsters are experimenting with newer D2C brands like never before. Bewakoof’s early success and its 2022 acquisition by retail giant Aditya Birla Fashion should have given it the edge, but the company has been left behind.
The earnings of India’s oil refiners and other Nifty 50 companies have taken a hit. But IPO premiums suggest that investors seem unfazed.
The cargo arm, carved out of SpiceJet on the basis of the promise it showed during the pandemic, is now more appendage and less the trump card it was cracked up to be.
Indian youngsters are experimenting with newer D2C brands like never before. Bewakoof’s early success and its 2022 acquisition by retail giant Aditya Birla Fashion should have given it the edge, but the company has been left behind.
The earnings of India’s oil refiners and other Nifty 50 companies have taken a hit. But IPO premiums suggest that investors seem unfazed.
The cargo arm, carved out of SpiceJet on the basis of the promise it showed during the pandemic, is now more appendage and less the trump card it was cracked up to be.
