Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.
Investors don't like being in a world where everything is held up by and waiting for an approval from a very small number of people.
I am not partisan in my economic thinking. We work with any number of state governments, many of which are BJP governments.
If the BJP government, like the Congress party, had asked what were the numbers on the fraction of people under a particular income, would I have not told them the truth? I would have told them exactly. I would have been as willing.
Here is an entirely banal idea that I think has the potential to change the world: Take evidence seriously. Taking evidence seriously does not mean privileging numbers over all other forms of knowledge - theories, narratives, images. Nor does it mean the kind of radical skepticism that questions everything to the point where no action is possible.
I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number has belonged to my day job as a physician and professor of medicine - eight to 12 hours, and even more in the early days.
The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.
I think more about preparation than numbers. If I'm well prepared, there will be results.
There are over 7,000 different types of proteins in typical eukaryotic cells; the total number depends on the cell class and function.
