35 years after a mysterious fire destroyed its facilities at the 51-acre campus at Mohali, Punjab, Semi-Conductor Laboratory (SCL) is fighting to extinguish old memories and earn its place in the sun. That’s courtesy a generous Rs 10,000 crore modernisation plan drawn up by the…

Happy as I am for Punjab's farmers, the problem is they shouldn't be growing rice and wheat. Water table is dropping, ground water getting polluted, soil losing fertility... too much pesticides.

READ: Punjab farmers reap twin bounty: Higher yield, robust procurement.

With…

It begins. The greatest democracy in the world goes to choose what it needs.
Now all it needs is you.
S K Swamy Avinash Pandey Megha Tata Pradeep Dwivedi Abhishek Karnani Anant Goenka

What I keep discovering about Dadaji are fresh stories of how much he contributed to India from behind the scenes. I keep meeting eminent people who today give him credit for their successes. His purpose was always India, not much else mattered. He backed people who he thought…

Super piece by Devdutt…
(Yes yes, I know it’s not written for IE;))

300 lit fests in India are 295 too many!! Quality control!
The book of numbers: Literature festivals want to become larger, but ambition may need to match content and character financialexpress.com/lifestyle/the-…

'Dear Editor, I Disagree' writes HDFC Bank's Aditya Puri, after watching the Express Adda with Michael Sandel.

He argues:
Intellectual elites must introspect on why their words fail to make a mark.

I thought it's a super -- and important -- piece.

indianexpress.com/article/opinio…

Neither this, nor one nation one poll, are great ideas — because motivation for both comes from a desire for a particular political party to be in power! Good reforms should be party-proof 😊

Thank you for taking the time Prabhuji.

What a lovely talk you gave!

Here's the link
youtube.com/live/CAQTBb0uF…

The Express Awards for Women Entrepreneurs, a confluence of some of the finest minds, has had many moments staying with the winners, much like their richly deserving awards! Financial Express The Indian Express Anant Goenka Piramal Group Aditya Birla Group Avarna Jain Zoya Akhtar

Too good

Congratulations to Dr. Swati Piramal for winning Lifetime Achievement Award at the 3rd Annual Express Awards for Women Entrepreneurs.

Gaur Gopal Das Ronnie Screwvala
Financial Express
FLO-FICCI Women's Chamber of Commerce

'Many media maaliks have been sitting on bended knee for so long, that any other posture hurts. '

'There's ease of doing business and there's unease of doing journalism.'

Indian Express Chief Editor Raj Kamal Jha's address tonight.

youtu.be/s2eAhOQCPow

Meet electoral bonds donor number 1: Santiago Martin, labourer turned Lottery King.

indianexpress.com/article/india/…

EXCLUSIVE: Speaking to IE, New Zealand Dy PM has questioned the lack of evidence on a “potential” Indian link — as alleged by Canadian PM — in the killing of Khalistan separatist Nijjar.

This is the first time a member of Five Eyes intelligence alliance is questioning Canada's…

Full rapidfire Ministry of External Affairs Bharat Dr. S. Jaishankar (Modi Ka Parivar) at adda yesterday.
youtu.be/r-EPPvUeC-I

Enjoyed this conversation and I think C. Raja Mohan and I were able to get him off script.

Thank you, Dr J, for making the time.