'India just solved hydrogen's toughest challenge, and it came from a Pune lab' indiatoday.in/education-toda…

Investors and market commentators are reading too much into short-term market movements in rates, currencies and equities. I believe that it is much more likely that recent sharp moves in these asset classes is due to highly leveraged market participants being forced out of positions than due to fundamentals. In other words, technical factors are driving the dramatic market moves. As a result, markets have become increasingly unreliable as short-term indicators of the impact of policy changes. I don’t understand how it is good for the world to allow investors in equities to operate with 10-1 leverage and investors in Treasurys and currencies to operate with 100-1 leverage. When did we decide as a society to abandon the margin rules that were put in place to protect markets from this kind of volatility?

Mental conditioning from years of watching cricket reversed by this annoying layout

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, what a paragraph...

India has moved on, but Nifty hasn’t. Our latest piece in Businessline. Thoughts and feedback welcome.

In these days of mega franchises like MI, CSK and KKR, I can never forget the first franchise team I read about! It featured H G Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, P. G. Wodehouse, G. K. Chesterton, Jerome K. Jerome and A. A. Milne and assorted professors, architects, big game hunters and painters. Their captain and founder was the writer of Peter Pan, James Barrie. The team's name was a portmanteau of Barrie's name and the mistaken belief that 'Allah akbar' meant 'Heaven help us' in Arabic, very apt, given that they were wonderful authors and terrible though hugely enthusiastic cricketers. But Barrie always encouraged his players. He praised one teammate's performance by observing that "You scored a good single in the first innings but were not so successful in the second." His selection policies were also unique. In his words, “with regard to the married men, it was because I liked their wives, with the regard to the single men, it was for the oddity of their personal appearance.” He was a canny captain. He would never allow his players to practice on the ground just before a game as the sight would invariably boost the confidence of the opponents. He would also remind his players that, “should you hit the ball, run at once. Do not stop to cheer." It was tough captaining the Allahakbarries. As it was the easiest position to field, most of the fielders would go to long on, sometimes as many as seven would gather there with huge gaps in the rest of the field. The team played all their matches in the magical pre-war era, and some of them lost their lives later in the great war of 1914. But the story of the Allahakbarries remains an inspiration to all cricket enthusiasts, and Barrie's book about the team had a foreword by Sir Donald Bradman when it was re-released in 1950!

Always a good idea to read Rama Bijapurkar to find the balance amid extreme narratives.

Ever wondered why "sin" (of trigonometry) is called "sin"? Today, I decided to find out, and the history is fascinating. It comes from the Sanskrit word for bowstring which somehow got translated to the Latin word for the "pallu" of a toga. Follow me down this rabbit hole 🧵

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Tax collections in India are beating all estimates! When our nominal GDP is growing at 10-11%, our tax collections are growing at more than 20% What is the secret behind this record-breaking growth? Is our tax system improving? A thread 🧵

SIP vs Mercedes 😄👍 #MutualFundsSahiHai #sip

Launched! Vikram-S makes history as the first private rocket of India to grace the skies. We thank you all for being with us for this momentous occasion. More details of flight to follow. Keep watching youtu.be/C0QP6Au7N_o #Prarambh #OpeningSpaceForAll

British Turmoil perhaps personifies current state of #financialmarkets and #geopolitics - here’s an analysis from my monthly column in Deccan Herald #oil #inflation #equities deccanherald.com/business/bu…

10th birthday. Built like a gun.

India. Always way ahead of the times. It’s always been that way. Non judgment and inclusiveness. Hari Om.

Team it up. Wonderful.

“By definition, they are not participating in price discovery. They are price takers. That definitely has consequences,” ft.com/content/994bdda8-b704…

To maturing Indian capital markets. Equities keep winning and now bonds too.

Leo Messi. Also, Modern-Equivalent Soccer Scoring Index (MESSI) economist.com/graphic-detail…