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Mumbai and the 24-hour obsession
Mumbai at night (Creative Commons License, Skye Vidur, Wikipedia) About 780 words, 5 minute reading time. 🙂 Do we really care for the...
Gurudas Nulkar
Jan 23, 20203 min read
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Marx and crisis of the dead tigress
[1]. The tigress had crossed our line of tolerance for other species. In the Western Ghats, the earth movers closed in on the forest....
Gurudas Nulkar
Jan 3, 20195 min read
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Ecological pessimism or economic ignorance?
“In the long-run, we are all dead” said John Maynard Keynes. Thanks to our obsession with economic growth, Keynes’s long-run may not be...
Gurudas Nulkar
Oct 13, 20183 min read
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BS-III vehicle ban: The curious case of the government backing auto-makers
Sale of BS-III vehicles banned by Supreme court from 1st April 2017. Most certainly a welcome move but a pity that decisions in the...
Gurudas Nulkar
Mar 30, 20172 min read
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Bayer CEO’s : ‘We don’t make medicine for poor Indians’
Marijn Dekkers, CEO of Bayer, is frank and forthright. Last year, in full display of his sincerity, he said that Bayer did not make the...
Gurudas Nulkar
Sep 21, 20153 min read
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Is your Ganesh festival truly eco-friendly?
Or did you only buy an eco-friendly idol? In the last few years eco-friendly Ganesha idols are gaining popularity. This is a good sign...
Gurudas Nulkar
Sep 8, 20154 min read
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Have a cola?
In the case of cola, the biggest water guzzler is sugar. Sugarcane farms in India have consistently contributed to water deficits in many...
Gurudas Nulkar
Aug 9, 20153 min read
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वेताळ टेकडीचा मेकप!
तुम्हाला अस्सल पुणेकर पाहीचे आहेत का? मग या पुण्याच्या टेकडी वर, इथे तुम्हाला भेटतील अस्सल पुणेकर.. . बारतोंडी, सालाई,...
Gurudas Nulkar
Nov 23, 20142 min read
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Gareebi hato : From Ecological Wealth to Economic Poverty
“Gareebi hatao” has been an ever popular rhetoric of politicians. Do we really need to remove poverty? Of course we must…! Over the...
Gurudas Nulkar
Nov 3, 20148 min read
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Commonsense – its role in reducing our fuel deficit (or the Three Stupid Things our Government just
India imports about three fourths of its requirement of crude. In financial year 2012, this cost us Rs 726,386 crores[i]. After taking...
Gurudas Nulkar
Mar 25, 20144 min read
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Bill Gates Annual Letter 2014 – My objections
I enjoyed reading the Bill Gates Annual Letter 2014 and the Myth-busting that they do. The irony is that the Bill and Melinda Gates...
Gurudas Nulkar
Jan 23, 20144 min read
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Ecology and Economics – the uncomfortable relation
Listen to what two of the 10th class texts have to say (2012 class school text books) Lines from the textbook of Economics “…economic...
Gurudas Nulkar
Jul 3, 20124 min read
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How I contribute to the Environment – My 7 R framework
“Save the environment!” “Go Green” “Love Nature” There is no dearth of such slogans one hears these days. In fact, its quite the “in...
Gurudas Nulkar
May 21, 20124 min read
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Don Quixote was right after all ! The truth about windmills.
“This year, your company successfully installed 12 windmills in the Satara district. This has reduced the carbon footprint of your...
Gurudas Nulkar
Apr 8, 20126 min read
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The externalized costs of outsourcing
Some time back corporate US stumbled upon a better way of making even more money – shift manufacturing bases to the emerging countries...
Gurudas Nulkar
Jan 23, 20123 min read
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Assault on the Bottom of the Pyramid – the impact of the single-serve sachet.
Markets at the Bottom of the economic pyramid Sachets at a shop The discovery of the huge untapped potential market at the bottom of the...
Gurudas Nulkar
Dec 20, 20118 min read
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