Gurudas NulkarJan 23, 20203 minMumbai and the 24-hour obsessionMumbai at night (Creative Commons License, Skye Vidur, Wikipedia) About 780 words, 5 minute reading time. 🙂 Do we really care for the...
Gurudas NulkarJan 3, 20195 minMarx 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 NulkarOct 13, 20183 minEcological 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 NulkarMar 30, 20172 minBS-III vehicle ban: The curious case of the government backing auto-makersSale 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 NulkarSep 21, 20153 minBayer 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 NulkarSep 8, 20154 minIs 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 NulkarAug 9, 20153 minHave 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 NulkarNov 23, 20142 minवेताळ टेकडीचा मेकप!तुम्हाला अस्सल पुणेकर पाहीचे आहेत का? मग या पुण्याच्या टेकडी वर, इथे तुम्हाला भेटतील अस्सल पुणेकर.. . बारतोंडी, सालाई,...
Gurudas NulkarNov 3, 20148 minGareebi 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 NulkarMar 25, 20144 minCommonsense – 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 NulkarJan 23, 20144 minBill Gates Annual Letter 2014 – My objectionsI 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 NulkarJul 3, 20124 minEcology and Economics – the uncomfortable relationListen to what two of the 10th class texts have to say (2012 class school text books) Lines from the textbook of Economics “…economic...
Gurudas NulkarMay 21, 20124 minHow 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 NulkarApr 8, 20126 minDon 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 NulkarJan 23, 20123 minThe externalized costs of outsourcingSome time back corporate US stumbled upon a better way of making even more money – shift manufacturing bases to the emerging countries...
Gurudas NulkarDec 20, 20118 minAssault 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...