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Building an Ecosystem to Save an Ecosystem: How Facilitating Climate Finance for MSMEs Can Fight Global Climate Change
For any micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) or start-ups working on climate solutions, “climate finance” is a buzzword. But it has become increasingly…
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Dell XPS 13 – Display driver issues and blank screen fix
Dell XPS 13 is the best windows laptop that you can buy, this is what every review said when it was launched. Still, you…
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Google Pixel 3XL – Why You Should Not Buy This Phone
While Google might have pulled off all its magic to design their best possible consumer device, Google Pixel 3 but I would not recommend…
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What I read in 2018 (fiction)
This list consists of the usual comfort and light reading (read crime fiction and thrillers). Yet, this year I tried to explore a few…
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What I read in 2018 (Non-fiction)
This post is almost a couple of months late. It was begging attention in my draft folder for at least six weeks. Finally here…
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Smart Villages : Driving development through entrepreneurship
If we have to address the challenge of unemployability, migration and environmental sustainability, we have to revitalize the way we see our rural development.…
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Rural kids need a better education
We have made some good progress in improving our literacy levels, sending more children to schools and reducing the percentage of dropouts. However, the…
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Amazon Echo vs Google Home – The right smart speaker for you
India’s is often a neglected market for high-end and innovative consumer tech products. But gradually this is changing. Many of the latest consumer tech…
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What I read in 2017 – Part 2 (Fiction)
I read a lot of fiction. Mostly crime-fiction, it is my guilty pleasure and companion on all my flights. Choosing what to read has…
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What I read in 2017- 1 (Non-fiction)
Thanks to my sleeping disorder and the age-old habit of going to bed with a book or kindle, I did manage to finish 30…
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Peaceful death is really an essential human right, more essential perhaps even than the right to vote or the right to justice; it is…
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The Oraganized Mind
Despite my several attempts to organize information in different ways, I am still to find a way that works decently for me. My job…
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Poverty and its brutal consequences
Poverty invokes different kinds of reactions and responses from different people and it has many dimensions. That makes it a very fascinating topic for…
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Kindle Unlimited in India – Value for Money if you love Indian authors.
I subscribed to Kindle Unlimited when it was launched in India. It was a very attractive offer. You pay less than INR 2k for…
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The biggest Productivity bottleneck for gadget/tech-lovers, and how to overcome it.
We love our gadgets and tinkering with them. We like to use the best of the best and cannot wait to get our hands…
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What I read in 2016
Non-fiction Connect by John Browne The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo What I talk about when I talk about running by…
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Social media is not the barometer of nation’s mood.
Social media is increasingly influencing policy makers, politicians and bureaucrats in visualizing and shaping some of the key decisions that have a very comprehensive…
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Doubling Farmers’ Income – Making it a reality
Our Prime Minister’s call to double the farmers’s income1 by 2022 is an opportune call as the growth in farmers’ income has stagnated and…
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Empathy and Economics
One of the most annoying thing in the pre-cable/satellite television era was Doordarashan mourning demise of political leaders or other eminent personalities. It meant…
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Addressing Household Air Pollution and Celebrating Cooking : Dharma Chef
Household Air Pollution (HAP) is emerging as a major health risk and is responsible for more than 4.3 million premature deaths globally every year.…