LUXURY-LIFESTYLE
World's most expensive fish lunch? The bluefin tuna that became a pricey meal
Plus, other animals that cost a fortune.
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Exasperating he may be, but Elon Musk is a true iconoclast
PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, The Boring Company, Neuralink and OpenAI (Chat GPT): Elon Musk is behind all of these ventures with the potential to change the world as we know it.
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Pursuing Pelé: My story of the legend
With the ball at his feet, Pelé, who passed away yesterday, wove magic on the field. The debate on who's the GOAT was settled long before current contestants even entered the fray. Instead of mourning, just imagine a Maradona's XI vs Pelé's XI, a match made in heaven.
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Stupas, caves and forts: A trip down Bhopal for a sense of our collective past
Bhimbetka, the mount where Bhim used to sit when in exile, was where early man shielded himself from the elements and drew animals and hunting scenes, as if to keep record of his daily travails.
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Curse of the magazine cover hits Sam Bankman-Fried
Sam Bankman-Fried isn’t the only celebrity tycoon who’s found out that the covers of business magazines are the slippery slopes to doom.
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Can Indian football learn anything at all from the FIFA World Cup?
India has a 100-year history of football, and some of the oldest competitions in the sport. What else will it take for India to send a team to the football World Cup?
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FIFA World Cup 2022: In football’s brevity lies its beauty
Ninety minutes (or in case of extra time, up to 120 minutes) is all it takes. But those 90 minutes pulsate with the agony and ecstasy of 22 players on the field and millions of watching fans.
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Professional fouls and fake injuries continue to rob football of its charm
In all the world’s top-tier football leagues, penalties are on the rise since referees are now likely to punish the slightest of touches in the box by awarding one.
COMPANIES
Vikram Kirloskar | How Toyota’s legacy of manufacturing excellence inspired this Renaissance Man
Kirloskar recognised the transformative possibilities of Toyota’s efficient manufacturing practices. In tying up with the Japanese company, he showed maturity and foresight. Their partnership has stood the test of time, even as many others in the automobile space fell by the wayside
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Have Asian teams finally turned the corner at the World Cup?
In week 1 of the football World Cup, Saudi Arabia beat Lionel Messi-led, two-time champions Argentina, then Japan defeated four-time winner of the trophy Germany, South Korea drew two-time champion Uruguay, and even Iran found its form to topple Wales.
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'How Soccer Explains the World', and 9 more football books for the committed fan
A curated list of books on football that lovers of the game can always turn to.
BUSINESS
Ramesh Chauhan: The entrepreneur who knows when to get in and get out of a business
Chauhan isn’t like most entrepreneurs who get married to their businesses and stay on till death parts them – in many cases, it’s the death of the business itself.
BUSINESS
Areez Pirojshaw Khambatta: the flavorist who gave India love in a packet of Rasna
The lasting legacy of the man who drove Rasna’s initial success will be that of a little girl offering a glass of the beverage to her toy elephant and then gulping it down herself.
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FIFA World Cup 2022: Can Qatar do justice to its status as the host team
Qatar, which joined FIFA only in 1963, has so far achieved very little on the field to merit much attention as a footballing nation.
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The bliss of retired life
Nearly 10 crore Indians are packed off into retirement every year because they have turned 58 or if they are luckier 60.
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Even as the T20 World Cup hurtles on another World Cup beckons
The stress will be particularly high for those whose loyalty is to England and Australia, the only two teams to have qualified for both the events.
BUSINESS
JJ Irani, the Tata group faithful who led the march of Indian steel
Initially a minor player in a fierce boardroom battle, Jamshed J Irani emerged from the shadows to steer clear of Russi Mody’s pervasive influence over Tata Steel and lead the company up the more difficult path to financial redemption
INDIA
130 years ago Dadabhai Naoroji began the journey that Rishi Sunak has completed
In 1892, the primarily working-class constituency of Central Finsbury elected Dadabhai Naoroji. From there Naoroji proceeded to deliver on his agenda, to hold a mirror to Britain's shameful rule in India.
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Before moonlighting, there was freelance journalism but without the debate
Freelancing gives you an illusion of choice. But the aspiring 'free agent' needs to develop intellectual resources to deliver the desired content and also emotional sinew to cope with the silent treatment.
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Book review: How artificial intelligence is taking control of our minds
Despite the critique, author John Ward isn’t willing to dump artificial intelligence (AI). Instead, he explores options to rein it, particularly in terms of profiteering from it, and harnessing it to combat rather than reinforce evils like inequality.
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Indonesia soccer stampede: Football violence is the game’s worst enemy
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Wipro's DNA doesn’t allow for moonlighting
Very early in his tenure, Azim Premji put down what he called the three Wipro Beliefs. Top of the list was integrity, along with respect for people and customer-centricity.
BUSINESS
Edtech’s failure is Indian education sector's curse to bear
The problem is that impact funding isn’t as well funded and the money available for education focused on long-term results is paltry.
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Meta collected your data and then forgot where it kept it
Daniel Garrie: “What systems store the data necessary from that list to compile a single user's profile or profile once it's created?” Facebook's Eugene Zarashaw: “I don't believe there's a single person that exists who could answer that.
