UpFront
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Ten interesting things we read this week
Some of the most fascinating topics covered this week are #MeToo (New shades in India's art world), Robotics (The first-ever humanoid visa), Policy (Digital Services Tax in Britain), Wizardry (Ghost in the cell), Proto Internet! (Before the Internet there was Minitel), and a gem that we couldn't dare classify...is it Humour, Gender Studies, Politics or Culture? You decide (Sarah Cooper's satire of the corporate world). Sports returns to Ten Interesting Things after a long time with a dirge on the heartbreaking decline of the Windies (Heartthrob to heartbreak)
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Billionaire fastlane
In 2009, the cut-off to enter the Rich List was $400 million. In 2018, it is $1.48 billion
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Ten interesting things we read this week
Some of the most fascinating topics covered this week are Evolutionary Linguistics (Esperanto — the language whose time never came), Sociology (the myth of meritocracy), Lifestyle (is the way you work killing you?), Music (decline of music literacy), Technology (future where everything becomes a computer) and Super-realism (Instagram and DeepMind are disrupting the 'reality' of photography)
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It's a bull... it's a bear... it's a dead cat
The bulls may not be back any time soon. Don't put your money where other mouths are
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No land of plenty for Indian farmers
They have to contend with shrinking size of farming plots and change in land usage laws
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Baiting the Bull
Investors brace themselves as India's markets head towards bear territory
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No kidding: ChuChu TV scores a billion hat-trick
The Chennai-based children's YouTube channel is only the sixth in the world to cross a billion views on three videos
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A new face or a 'used' face?
Can Alia Bhatt, the face of Gionee till last year, click for Nokia?
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HUL's Ticket to revival
How Ticket, HUL's pocket-sized perfumed deo pack, is helping it get back the Axe effect
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Ten interesting things we read this week
Some of the most interesting topics covered this week are Policy (myth of urban poor), Food Technology (eating lab-grown chicken) and Futurism (the cultural blindspot)