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Opinion: The Pandemic Will Be More Deadly This Year - Look At India

David Fickling, Bloomberg | Tuesday April 20, 2021

Covid-19 is going to kill more people in 2021 than it did last year. If you want to see why, look at what's happening in India.

Opinion: When India, The Pharmacy Of The World, Needs Prescriptions

Aashish Chandorkar, Bloomberg | Wednesday April 14, 2021

On April 11, India recorded almost 170,000 Covid-19 cases, a record for the country since the start of the pandemic.

Opinion: How Saudi Arabia Can Thrive In A Post-Oil World

David Fickling, Bloomberg | Tuesday April 06, 2021

On the face of it, no country has more to lose from the transition away from fossil fuels than Saudi Arabia. Before the discovery of oil, it barely existed as a nation.

Opinion: Where PM Modi Could Be Just As Wrong As Nehru

Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Monday April 05, 2021

A critical component of the myth-making around Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to minimize the contribution of the country's foundational figures.

Opinion: India Needs To Move Vaccines To Warp Speed Amid Deadly 2nd Wave

Shruti Rajagopalan, Bloomberg | Monday April 05, 2021

A frightening second wave of Covid-19 has begun to sweep over the world's second-biggest nation. Case numbers and deaths are spiking in India.

Opinion: UAE Project To Broker India-Pak Peace Is Its Most Ambitious Ever

Hussein Ibish, Bloomberg | Monday March 29, 2021

Nicknamed "Little Sparta" by American generals like former U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, the United Arab Emirates is widely acknowledged as a small country that punches far above its weight in military terms. But the tiny Gulf state also has outsize ambitions as a peace broker.

Opinion: Even Without A Pandemic, Going Maskless In Delhi Can Kill You

Mihir Sharma, Bloomberg | Monday March 29, 2021

It has been a year since the pandemic hit India and, for me, the oddest thing is how healthy I've been. Like most but not all of the people I see on the streets, I have been masked up these past 12 months. I've washed my hands religiously and avoided crowds. As a result, for the first time in my life, I haven't caught a cold all year.

Opinion: No Zoom On Friday! Companies Handle WFH Fatigue

Elisa Martinuzzi & Marcus Ashworth, Bloomberg | Wednesday March 24, 2021

It took a year of the pandemic but finally one of the world's biggest banks has acknowledged the huge toll that working remotely is taking on its staff. Jane Fraser, Citigroup Inc's chief executive officer, wants to ease Zoom fatigue and go back to regular working hours. That tells you how bad things have got - at investment banks and at large businesses generally.

Opinion: RBI Is Having A Tough Time With Government Bonds

Andy Mukherjee, Bloomberg Opinion | Wednesday March 24, 2021

Even though the rupee is the best emerging-market currency so far this year, 6% isn't adequate risk compensation for 10-year notes.

Opinion: How Amazon Is Fighting Door-To-Door To Beat Mukesh Ambani

Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Monday March 22, 2021

The world's largest retailer is permeating the complex tapestry of the only billion-people-plus market open to it. And it's doing so by tweaking its business models to suit local preferences, practices, quirks - and Covid-19 disruptions.

Opinion: What's Government's Beef With Bitcoin, Really?

Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Tuesday March 16, 2021

The uncertainty is throwing young blockchain firms and programmers into a paroxysm of anxiety: Should they leave or stay? If they hang back, should they do something else with their lives?

Opinion: Hungry Fund Managers Angry With India, Want SEBI To Make A Fix

Andy Mukherjee, Bloomberg Opinion | Monday March 15, 2021

Global investors are urging the Securities and Exchange Board of India to fix the upstairs market.

Opinion: How Do You Take 1.3 Billion People To The Bank?

Aashish Chandorkar, Bloomberg | Monday March 15, 2021

In the futurist law now named after him, the late Stanford University computer scientist Roy Amara once declared, "We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run." India's public digital infrastructure - in many ways, an immense online bureaucracy - is an outlier to this principle.

Opinion: Read India's Tea Leaves In Bonds, Not Stocks

Andy Mukherjee, Bloomberg Opinion | Wednesday March 10, 2021

Only two-fifths of the sovereign notes put up for sale have been bought by investors. The rest of the auctions were partially cancelled or devolved on primary dealers.

Opinion: Away From Bezos Vs Ambani, A Startup Is Changing Indian Retail

Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Tuesday March 02, 2021

A bruising battle for supremacy between two of the world's richest men is hogging the limelight, but the silent changes in India's retail landscape deserve equal attention.

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