When Chennai needed rescue trains laden with water during its recent water crisis we sat up and took notice. But public memory is short and we tend to quickly turn such crisis to a topic of mere reference in ‘chai

AI is a threat or a grace
The statement that AI is a threat is attributed to Jack Ma – the Chinese IT billionaire who is arguably the richest person walking the earth. His statement is interpreted to have implied that it would take away a lot

Deforestation, a curse that needs reversal.
In my last blog, I expressed my concern about the global environmental crisis. Deforestation is, unfortunately, an androgenic cause of the impending disaster that is staring at our face. In the beginning, it must be admitted that the actual quantification

The global environmental crisis
A few weeks ago the Australian Koala Foundation declared the Koala bear as functionally extinct. With just about 80,000 left, there is not enough adult left to propagate the species. The news got wide coverage in media, but unfortunately, little

Commercial goal with social welfare: The road to success for microfinance.
While grappling with the challenge of alleviating poverty, development economists have gone through the whole spectrum of conceivable instruments that could be feasibly thought of without triggering a disruption. By the seventies, however, the strain of financing poverty alleviation started