What Is The Kafala System?

By Deputy Editor, Surabhi Chhikara What do the 2022 FIFA World Cup, 1970 oil boom and the recent release of the film Aadujeevitham (Goat Life) have in common? They all relate to the Gulf countries and more precisely to the kafala system- a legal framework that has brought both wealth and tears to migrant labourers [...]

Know Your Economist: Dr. Gary Becker

By Gitika Arora, Editor-In-Chief Dr. Gary Becker was an instrumental economist with groundbreaking and defining contributions to the field. He was born on 2nd December 1930 amidst the dark shadows of the Great Depression. Becker got his PHD from University Of Chicago in 1955 under the renowned Nobel Prize Winner, Milton Friedman. Like Friedman, Becker [...]

Access, simplified.

3 MIN READ. An introduction to Share Economy. By Ahalya Rajesh, Chief Editor “Ask the man who owns one” said Packard’s print advertisement in 1925. I wonder, would such a tagline be effective today? For a company selling a car in the 1920s, and even in the 2000s, their primary motive was to make the [...]