New Year Special 2022
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Science and humanity skills will become essential for best use of digital tech: TCS COO
We have got at least a 10-year leap on digital and data. As enterprises continue to make investments in digital technologies, skills like art, design, ecology will become very relevant: N Ganapathy Subramaniam, TCS COO and Executive Director takes a stab at connecting the dots from the last few years to predict the future
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Omicron: India's vaccination plan needs a boost - Dr GVS Murthy
As new variants of Covid-19 emerge, the government must have a clear booster policy that will encourage more global manufacturers to ship vaccines to India, the director of Indian Institute of Public Health-Hyderabad, writes
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India needs to win the new Web3 internet: Hemant Mohapatra
The spoils of Web 2.0 went to the West, now India is uniquely positioned to shape the future of Web 3.0, partner, Lightspeed India, writes
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Women need to be at the front and centre of Covid-19 recovery: Mitali Nikore
The founder of Nikore Associates, a youth-led economics research think tank writes about how women have consistently been left out of India's growth story, and why changing that will make all the difference
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OTT has taken away the stigma of small films: Ekta Kapoor
Whether it is subscription-based, advertising or video-on-demand, Indian audiences are likely to see streaming platforms as less of an investment than traditional entertainment mediums, the joint managing director of Balaji Telefilms writes
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India's product generation has lessons for the world: Girish Mathrubootham
A new generation of entrepreneurs is excelling at building software products, and at the same time, helping create a new tech landscape globally, the founder and CEO of Freshworks writes
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2022 will be the year of green transition: Cyril Shroff, Richa Roy
This year, environment, social and governance norms will be embedded not just in law and regulation but also in business plans and culture, managing partner; and partner, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, write
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If we cannot solve vaccine equity globally, we cannot escape variants locally: Bhramar Mukherjee
Living through the pandemic has taught us some valuable lessons about how to live through uncertainty and prepare for it, the professor of biostatistics, University of Michigan School of Public Health writes on the biggest lessons and what she thinks 2022 will bring
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Flexibility, skills, entrepreneurship will shape labour market in 2022: LinkedIn India head
The India country manager of LinkedIn, Ashutosh Gupta writes about the trends that will shape India's labour market dynamics in the new year, and how talent will take the driver's seat
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Want to keep India's unicorn boom going? Focus on these 3 things: Ashish Dave
It's time to look beyond unicorns, and if startups don't use VC money to build cash flow and these two other pillars of integral growth, the unicorn run may lose steam in 2022, the CEO of Mirae Asset Venture Investments India, writes
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Discrimination against transpersons plagues India's health care system. It's time to overhaul it: Aqsa Shaikh, Harikeerthan Raghuram
To enable transgender people gain access to Covid-19 treatment and vaccines, there needs to be a fundamental shift in how health care systems view them, Shaikh, associate professor of community medicine at Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences and Research; and Raghuram, project coordinator, Sangath, write