The hidden fault lines behind Jack Ma’s fall
The regulatory pushback was long in the making. And it has as much to do with Alibaba's dominance, a wariness of big businesses, and deeper socio-cultural issues
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An engineering college boom built on a foundation of dysfunction
By the middle of 2015, things became dire for Odisha’s private engineering colleges. Of the state’s 46,000 engineering seats, as many as 30,000 were vacant. In this excerpt from his book ‘Despite the State’, M Rajshekhar tells the story of the boom and bust—in which the students and staff were the only losers
FF Insights #623: The economic landscape
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FF Daily #276: The danger of single story
January 18, 2021: Different perspectives; Systems change; Mentoring; Generation gap
FF Daily #277: Multipliers vs Diminishers
January 19, 2021: Liz Wiseman on leadership; Jack Ma vs the Chinese state; How Moderna’s vaccine was 33 years in the making; Who runs the government?
FF Daily #278: The moral question around success
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FF Insights #624: Love and the inner life
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FF Daily #279: Underneath fear and uncertainty, there’s a new perspective
January 21, 2021: Examine and deal with fears; The connection between Odisha’s education boom and mining; Kamala Harris and the rise of the alpha desi female; Late to work?
FF Life: Flamenco, wine and history
If you revel in culture, history, and architecture, there’s every chance you’ll find every bit of Andalusia in southern Spain utterly captivating
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