A new biography of well-known anthropologist Irawati Karve, ‘Iru: A Remarkable Life’, by Urmilla Deshpande and Thiago Pinto Barbosa, moves between the personal and the scientific
While sluggish consumer spending can act as a drag on business investment, there’s also the Schumpeterian kind—aimed at the future. Big money is being ploughed into new fields like green energy, semiconductors, electric vehicles and data centres.
Has the splendid economic recovery after the pandemic been dominated by profits rather than wages? The answer to this question has profound consequences for the future direction of the Indian economy.