JANUARY 01 2023

Digital Dystopia

Mahatma Gandhi believed modern technology is “machinery with only consideration of profit”. His belief is likely to have inspired Charlie Chaplin to make Modern Times, say trivia lovers.

Suchetana Ray - January 01, 2023

Preserving Data Sanctity In The Era of Surveillance

Amid rising concerns over threat to privacy due to its surveillance approach, the government must up its game with more stringent and clear data protection laws if it wants to realise its ambition of a digital India

Chitra Nair - January 01, 2023

Investors’ Choice: Digital Payment Wanes, Insurtech Shines

Once the blue-eyed babies cradled by investors, are digital payment providers ceding their leadership position to incumbents offering ancillary fintech services?  

Vinita Bhatia - January 01, 2023

Advantage Climate Start-Ups

Government support, regulatory framework, widening scope and more opportunities are luring venture capital firms into investing in climate tech start-ups

Shailaja Tripathi - January 01, 2023

The Balancing Act

To what extent does gender become a liability or a hurdle in the path to success? In her book, Anita Bhogle draws from experiences of women who made different career-related choices, from aggressively marching on to compromising on the job profile or giving it all up for the sake of family duties, to prepare a narrative on the challenges they face

The Mountain’s Boy

While it is mountains calling during vacations, Purplle.com co-founder and CEO Manish Taneja gets his daily dose of relaxation from walking, when he leaves behind his gadgets and takes along just a pen and paper

Chitra Nair - January 01, 2023

On Growth Trail Of A Microfinancing Entity

Microfinance has been globally recognised as a key enabler for financial inclusion. Anushree Jindal, founder of Svamaan Financial Services, talks about five factors that determine the success of a microfinance company

The Indian Way Of Regulating Big Tech

India wants to overhaul the mechanism through which it governs the fast-evolving tech sector and reams of data government initiatives and private sector produce. With Prime Minister Modi’s desire to imprint his muscular persona on it, the balancing act lies in its details

Kamalika Ghosh - January 01, 2023

RBI’s Unsure Walk With E-Rupee

The central bank’s discourse on CBDC is caught between its abhorrence for private digital currencies and FOMO on innovation in global financial order. Its cautious steps on e-rupee may conceptually sit well with a government that wants a digitised economy, but they put a question mark on the bank’s intent on the ground

Neeraj Thakur

& Harsh Kumar - January 01, 2023

When Digital Disrupts Only VC Books

The country’s digital journey started almost two decades ago. Over 100 unicorns later and consuming billions of dollars in VC money, Indian digital companies are still looking for viable profit routes. How big is the failure of India’s digital copycat start-ups?

Nishant - January 01, 2023

India’s Digital Winning Like A Frankenstein

India is an aspirational digital state. It wants to belong to the connected world like a leader despite its limitations of being a low-middle-income economy, having a large number of poor people, large illiteracy levels and less-than-reliable telecom infrastructure. Will the government’s push from the top create a national digital blueprint or turn the country into Charlie Chaplin’s Feeding Machine?

Nishant

& Vinita Bhatia - January 01, 2023

India Needs A Neutral Authority To Hold Govt Accountable: Shashi Tharoor

Opposition MP and former chairperson of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology Shashi Tharoor, known for raising uncomfortable questions on various issues, speaks on the data protection bill, the controversy around it and the delay in tabling it in the Parliament

Kamalika Ghosh - January 01, 2023