Dr Ashok V Desai
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Bursting technologies

Innovation is the most powerful force behind material progress; it increases productivity of people and resources, and introduces new products and techniques. Advanced countries have relied greatly on it for growth; both their firms and...

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How to think Dalitically

Savarna can mean an astrologer, or a son of a Brahmin man and a Kshatriya mother, or of the same colour, appearance, caste or tribe. That was in ancient Sanskrit; more recently it has come...

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Bien joué, Justin Trudeau!

What a beautiful sight! Look around at world’s leaders such as Donald Trump or Xi Jin Ping; would you be sorry if you did not get another look at them? And then look at Justin...

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Incentivizing welfare

Blindheim – blind home – is a strange name; but that is the name of a village in Bavaria. Presumably it had a home for the blind some time in its history. But what made...

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The market for patriotism

There is no correlation between countries and patriotism. Of the 60-odd countries I have visited, citizens of most – for instance, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Canada or Singapore – would hardly ever give a thought to patriotism....

An involved historian

Aristotle is a famous philosopher. He had an even better known pupil – Alexander. But Alexander did not get much time to study, for his father Philip was assassinated when he was 16 in 340...

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Running away from risk

Securities and Exchange Board of India is at a loss: it does not know how to rate shares. It would like the risk of investing in a share to be summed up in a single...

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Getting to know villagers

Though extremely unstable, agricultural growth has far outpaced population growth in recent years; the supply of agricultural goods per head has risen. The proportion of population dependent on agriculture has been falling; so goods produced...

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Ways to a cooler world

Global warming is now contested by few; it is part of our personal experience. It has intensified over the past two decades, and will get worse before long. Remedial action against it is urgent. Such...

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Making patents useful

Harsh Vardhan, minister of science and technology, has approved a proposal that the National Research and Development Corporation should develop an Intellectual Property Exchange. The idea is appealing. The patent office receives thousands of applications...

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Some achievement at last

Some achievement at last Journalism has its occasions for consternation. I have been sued for defamation. The publisher washed his hands off, and asked me to face the case on my own. Luckily, there are...

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An air traveller’s travails

Flyers have been in the news. First there was an unshaven legislator from a western state. He got into a flight to the seat of power, and ensconced himself in a snug front seat in...