Arthshastra

BBC’s Soutik Biswas has a superb piece on the flourishing blues tradition in Shillong. A must read. It is Friday night in the north-eastern Indian hill town of Shillong, and Tipriti and her band Soulmate are belting out gut-wrenching blues in a cavernous pub called Cloud Nine. BBC NEWS | South Asia | India’s little [...]

So lets say that you are a policeman and you have a warrant for searching the home of a person who is suspected to be a drug dealer. Would you rather go to his home, knock on the door and wait for at least 20 seconds to follow an arcane and non-common sensical law and [...]

No matter how much you might hate Microsoft and its products, you cannot help praising its founder, Bill Gates and now, with today’s announcement, Bill Gates will join such legendary tycoon-philantropists such as John Rockefeller. In the end, it is all about legacy. It has been barely a couple of years since Dhirubhai Ambani passed [...]

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In December 2001, Enron – a high and mighty US corporation that was at one point of time, the seventh largest in the country, and whose executives were hailed as the gurus of the new economy, filed for bankruptcy. Yesterday, on May 25th, 2006 – within five years of its implosion, two of its highest [...]