Over the past month and a half, China has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. Engaging their Indian Army counterparts in a bloody border skirmish at the Sino-Indian border in Ladakh that resulted in casualties on both sides, intruding into Taiwanese air space before being ‘driven out’, and increasing their aggressive posturing … Continue reading Invisible China How the Urban-Rural Divide threaten’ s China’s Rise – Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell

Reticent, muted and with a ubiquitous pout, Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao was the impeccable Machiavelli of Indian politics. At seventy, and with a monk-hood to boot, Mr. Rao was all set to retire and pursue a life of contemplation, when he was catapulted into the eye of a terrible storm. On the 1st of August … Continue reading 1991:  How P.V.Narasimha Rao Made History – Sanjaya Baru

One of the most followed and admired epidemiological handles on Twitter is the one belonging to Adam Kucharski. A Mathematician, and Epidemiologist at The London School of Health and Tropical Medicine, Mr. Kucharski keeps his ‘followers’ informed, invested and entertained thereby allowing them to find their way through times unprecedented. One of his threads on … Continue reading Contagion: Why Things Spread – and Why – Adam Kucharski

One of the most reputed publications in the annals of medicine, “The Lancet” recently published a controversial study based on Surgisphere data, that demonstrated enhanced death rates in COVID-19 patients being administered with the drug Hydroxychloroquine. Touted indiscriminately and inanely by President Donald Trump as a “miracle drug” against the COVID-19 pandemic, the use and … Continue reading The COVID-19 Catastrophe: What’s Gone Wrong and How to Stop it Happening Again – Richard Horton

In the memorable American Christmas fantasy drama film “It's a Wonderful Life” starring James Stewart, there arises a bank run in a small town and the protagonist (James Stewart’s character George) uses his own money to stop the institution from dissolving. Released in 1946 and directed by Frank Capra, based on the short story and … Continue reading Bad Money: Inside the NPA mess and how it threatens the Indian Banking System – Vivek Kaul

James Christopher Harrison, an effervescent Aussie lad was all of fourteen years old, when a seemingly innocuous bug that caught him turned into a bad case of triple pneumonia. With the antibiotics failing to do their job, young Harrison’s condition worsened before it was decided that a pediatric pulmonary lobectomy, a complicated surgical procedure to … Continue reading Good Blood: A Doctor, donor and the incredible breakthrough that saved millions of babies – Julian Guthrie

Would Lehman Brothers have had a more encouraging prospect if it was Lehmann Sisters instead? What is the connection between block-chain technology and a national election? In his book “2030” (one of the shortest ever main titles for a book succeeded by what has to be one of the longest subtitles ever for any literary … Continue reading 2030 How Today’s Biggest Trends will collide and reshape the future of everything – Mauro F. Guillen