FF Insights #640: The new Iron Curtain
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As technology becomes ubiquitous in day-to-day living, and its role in the economy grows, the importance of knowledge will increase manifold. This knowledge economy will require far deeper specialization, as disciplines get more complex. And also people with a broad understanding of multiple disciplines. An excerpt from Kiran Karnik’s new book, ‘Decisive Decade’
Arun Maira, Ravi Venkatesan and Naushad Forbes discuss why the shape of economics, governance and business must change to fulfil our tryst with destiny
Whose rights is the law designed to protect? And what are the values on which institutions are founded? There’s a contest between what sort of economy and what sort of democracy India will be in 2047, a 100 years after its independence on August 15 1947 when Jawaharlal Nehru declared that India had a tryst with destiny