Rajiv Anand

Curasao has qualified for #WorldCup2026 and will now play Germany! Just FYI Curasao has a population of 158,000. So these people have been able to create a world class football team and created world class Blue Curasao!! Mind blowing!

Zee5 Brazil match glitched at 7:07 and then started back at 9:13, so we lost ~2 min of viewing time in a BRAZIL MATCH. WHAT IF THIS WAS A QF, SF OR HEAVEN FORBID THE FINAL!! Even if you wanted to rewind you cannot, Zee5 just BUFFERS BACK TO LIVE WHAT'S THE SUBSCRIPTION FOR?

In my latest @bsindia piece, following an Indianomics discussion with @latha_venkatesh and Mridul Saggar, I argue that while sharpening and articulating India’s growth story is critical, policy and market distortions may also have amplified negative sentiment around the INR and deterred capital flows. Key points: • No cause for panic: INR weakness warrants attention, but India’s external deficits remain manageable and RBI's buffers are substantial. • The deeper issue: India’s prolonged struggle to attract sustained net foreign capital amid persistent negative sentiment on the rupee. • Policy silos: Interest rates, liquidity, taxation, capital flows, and currency markets are deeply interconnected, though policy debates often treat them in silos. • Unintended consequences: Interventions to suppress interest rates, alongside tax frictions, may have unintentionally weakened capital inflows and lowered the cost of speculative positioning against the rupee. • Distorted savings: Distortions in taxation and markets have also stunted debt market development, pushing discretionary savings disproportionately into equities. • Navigating the Trinity: The answer is not avoiding intervention, but engaging more holistically with the “impossible trinity” linking interest rates, exchange rates, and capital flows. • The structural fix: Rather than introducing capital controls or fresh distortions, responses should aim for deeper debt markets, balanced taxation, and a globally competitive framework for foreign capital. The piece argues against both panic and rigid orthodoxy, in favour of a more integrated approach to monetary, currency, and fiscal policy. bit.ly/4tWs8Fi

It’s 2026. Why is the "travel adapter hunt" still a thing? Dear Hotels: please find below the ultimate guest perk. If you’re renovating, please ditch the single-region outlets and go universal. It’s a small detail that makes a massive difference for your international guests.

Really? So is perch. Has there been a sudden bump up in rents

Looks like both Monkey Bar and Fatty Bao are closing down? Wonder what will replace them... Rameshwaram Cafe? 😂