Natasha

[Natasha @researchoutcome]

We have curated a workshop on how to think, design and create moulds. Workshop details 👇🏾

[Natasha @researchoutcome]

Well.. it had been silly to assume that US really thought of India as a partner and not as a pawn!

[Shashank Mattoo @MattooShashank]

Breaking: US Indo-Pacific Command drops the “Indo” and reverts back to its original name: US Pacific Command

[Natasha @researchoutcome]

This happens a lot to us too.. we sent an email to a reputed magazine in New Delhi for collaboration. The next thing we know is that they are sending us an email for us to send a submission to a category which is identical to our company name (minus the forum, of course).. and then we looked up their website, and we see articles on their website on the concepts we had written already upon last year. Simply a sad state of affairs. My question then has been - how and who funds do these plagiarist organisation? They not only have the intellectual capacity but also have no ethic to work with.

[Natasha @researchoutcome]

Hmm should have purchased my monthly pass at the nearby park..!

[Mumbai Rains @rushikesh_agre_]

Some worrying signs as IMD has again revised Mumbai's monsoon arrival to around June 25 while Skymet has hinted a further delay.

My take: Moisture inflow should strengthen from June 20-21 to build momentum for #MumbaiRains. As of now I expect the monsoon to reach Mumbai around June 22.

[Natasha @researchoutcome]

Ditto! I am looking forward to it too especially what they are going to do pertaining to MSMEs…

[Chenthil @jcrajan00]

Gujarat unveils its new Industrial Policy tomorrow. Worth watching because Gujarat doesn't just announce policies — it implements them.

What I want to see: whether they address the MSME credit gap. Big anchor investments grab headlines. The 200-employee factory that can't get working capital doesn't.

[Natasha @researchoutcome]

@ActusDei Economics

[Natasha @researchoutcome]

Oh well.. they stopped the e-visa/foreign arrivals in India, data in 2016/2017… who needs research anyway in the world of Vishwaguru..

[Kallol Bhattacherjee @janusmyth]

For more than 2 decades MEA maintained a dazzling online library on India's journey from 1948-49 to 1999. From Nehru to Vajpayee. From Indira Gandhi to IK Gujral. The collection has vanished without any explanation. Great loss for academics, journalists general people worldwide.

[Natasha @researchoutcome]

@Moneylifers 💯 I think in the grand scheme of Vishwaguru-things, this is the best they can do at the moment..😜

[Natasha @researchoutcome]

@mishra_baibhav 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Natasha @researchoutcome]

What does a crisis reveal? It reveals those deep-seated structural rigidities of the system which had been costing a dime to the users of the system, nonetheless conveniently being ignored anyway for reasons best known to the system.

When these structural rigidities are ignored over time, and yet another crisis strikes again, the consequences compound. Businesses that were barely absorbing the costs of the system’s failures are pushed over the edge. Mind you - it is not the responsibility of the business to absorb the cost of a system failure anytime or ALL THE TIME.

Anyway, the result?

Surviving firms die an uncomfortable unnatural death. The resulting market restructuring drives consolidation and concentration, favouring those firms who are able to absorb the impact of the system's failure yet once again!

So who created the un-level playing field for the domestic businesses at home?

The system, (mis) engineered from within.

How do you expect the disadvantaged domestic firms to compete fairly onto the international market which is already an un-level playing field exacerbated by a geopolitical reordering?

More subsidies? More customs-duty waiver? More China-blaming? More FTAs? More credit schemes which barely get transmitted to these firms anyway?

Last year, in an interview with a micro-Indian importer of chemicals from five different nations with FIFTEEN YEARS of experience. Yes, FIFTEEN, you read that right!, we had clearly highlighted the system’s structural rigidity whose cost to the business goes up exponentially during the crisis time.

Logistical ease starts with fixing those flaws that bleed the system-users.

https://t.co/86o1kqSPWq is a step ahead in bringing those bottlenecks to the fore.

You can read the whole interview here - https://t.co/dR8wWtRizd

More interview to stay ahead in your game - https://t.co/WooHdu6nGi

Buy us a coffee if our work resonates with you - https://t.co/Dgo8wyXkR2

Newspaper article - https://t.co/iubWwa5i14

#port #portinfrastructure #logistics #globalsouth #india #internationaltrade #exim

[Ravi @ravidutta_]

West Asia crisis: Congestion at ports, exporters flag carriers’ ‘opportunistic pricing’

https://t.co/9aZ9ge5FAf

[Natasha @researchoutcome]

Only yesterday was I reading multiple academic papers including that from the World Bank, and I was so fed up with the nauseating verbosity and the use of grandiose words, where every paragraph meant multiple reads with no meaningful output anyway, that i told my colleague that I wouldn’t pay a dime and poorly is tax payers money being used..!

[あいひん @BABYLONBU5TER]

ハーバード大学の認知心理学者・言語学者スティーブン・ピンカー教授は学術論文について「学者同士が互いに楽しむためだけに書かれている」と指摘。

「頭のいい研究者が山ほどいるのに、なぜ納税者の金で研究しながら世界に伝えようとしないのか？ 同じ段落を5〜6回読まないと理解できない文章は誤解を生み、喜びも奪う。本当に腹が立つ」と学術論文の難解さ・冗長さを痛烈に批判。

研究成果は、誰もが理解できる明確な文章で公開されるべきだと主張。

[Natasha @researchoutcome]

@IITHyderabad This is exciting and fits in the vision we are envisaging where product development can be actualised from paper through various stages of prototyping. We would be excited to be a part of this journey. More details 👇🏾

[Natasha @researchoutcome]

Dear @iitbombay What is the point of having an email ([email protected]) listed on your website when emails bounce back? What is even more of a point of having someone on the other side of the phone (Phone: [phone] or [phone]) who does not know why the emails are not being received? Expected better from a premium institution like yours!

[Natasha @researchoutcome]

It is interesting and exciting to learn that conversations surrounding #MSMEs, especially #microenterprises including "start-ups", are happening across #India. Having said this, I do think that the current business environment *demands a paradigm shift in the way India has been doing business*, and this involves a *change in the mindset* right from the top to the bottom of the pyramid. Regulatory changes, particularly in silos, are going to have a limited impact if the mindset does not support systemic and systematic thinking. A changing mindset would enable investments in building business resilience, and these investments would look into building a foundation. For example, did you know that anything and everything around us has a mother product in the form of #moulds? And did you know that India's mould industry is fragmented (let's not talk about mould clusters for the moment), so much so that businesses pay a huge sum to procure a mould? Moulds enable adaptation and innovation, leading to prototyping. Moulds facilitate scalable processing and manufacturing.

Tooling is essential. And moulds are one of the tools that are foundational and essential.

How do you build the tooling industry?

In almost two years of being on the field speaking to Indian businesses across different verticals - including product manufacturers, skill development institutes, amongst others - we have understood one thing: that manufacturing in India suffers far beyond the much-talked-about skill mismatch. India indeed has the skills. We need to mould the thinking, where looking at a product should start minds thinking about the processes to build it. In our workshop on Moulds, we actually enable participants to develop their *mould-thinking* ability - an out-of-the-box thought process using an inside-out approach. More details of our workshop can be gathered here - .

It is time that the discourse around building India's MSME sector, especially the small and micro-enterprises, changes! And this change should start from the foundations - #thinking and the #toolings. I hope the gathering in #Kochi touches upon this too.

#globalsouth #skillingIndia #manufacturing

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https://t.co/ic7C9DXG0a

[Natasha @researchoutcome]

@BurakGurel1980 @AsimAli6 Can you share an open source link for the article?

[Natasha @researchoutcome]

Maybe it is just a number. Maybe more than just a number. Economic arrogance should marry human empathy, and maybe then it will be more than just a number.

[🚨Indian Gems @IndianGems_]

"So what if the rupee touches 100 to a dollar? It's just a number."

— Dr Shamika Ravi, PM Economic Advisor

[Natasha @researchoutcome]

The Global South Convergence Forum (https://t.co/86o1kqTnLY) is pleased to share our latest In-Depth Insight authored by Dr. Joshua Mugambwa. He is the Dean of the Faculty of Management and a Senior Lecturer at Makerere University Business School, Kampala, Uganda.

In this piece, Dr. Mugambwa draws on his experiences in China to offer insights into Uganda's land question and subsequent rural development challenge. He argues that rural transformation extends beyond farming, requiring strategic leadership and the political will to fully integrate rural citizens into national development.

The full article is available at the following link: https://t.co/PTrO3Sedua.

#globalsouth #southsouthcooperation

@ChinaSpox_India @China_Amb_India @SouthernM46171 @the_gsaf @LSE_Globalsouth @Global_South @GlobalSouthInit @GlobalSouthNew @RIS_NewDelhi

[Natasha @researchoutcome]

@ganeshsonawane @aryanag_08 I would suggest to immediately start with the toe separators.

[Natasha @researchoutcome]

@hainbehen Hi, curious - did you finally receive the email?

[Natasha @researchoutcome]

@vikpai that is being kind :) the learning is everyday :)