Quick notes: Startup mortalities, Shifting pollution...

• Start-up mortalities: India's struggling startups.



• Start-ups lean on temporary jobs to sail through tough times: Rather than hiring people and firing them after six months, it is better to hire with transparency that people will only be associated for a particular duration.



• High Frequency Trading: India is having its own 'Flash Boys' moment. 40% of all stock trading volume on NSE coming from high frequency and algorithmic transactions.



• Sea of automobiles: Can Delhi's pollution be shifted to cleaner places?



• E-bikes: Battery technology driving e-bike boom



• Elby e-bike: Sweat-free biking



• Smartphone addiction: How technology hijacks our psychological vulnerabilities.



• Forgetting real heroes, celebrating filmi ones: Few remember the sacrifices of our soldiers



• Ding-Namaskara:

namaḥ̱ prācyai̍ di̱śe yāśca̍ de̱vatā ̍ e̱tasyā ̱ṃ prati̍-vasantye̱tābhya̍śca namo̱ |
namo dakṣi̍ṇāyai di̱śe yāśca̍ de̱vatā ̍ e̱tasyā ̱ṃ prati̍-vasantye̱tābhya̍śca namo̱ |
namaḥ pratī ̍cyai di̱śe yāśca̍ de̱vatā ̍ e̱tasyā ̱ṃ prati̍-vasantye̱tābhya̍śca namo̱ |
nama̱ udī ̍cyai di̱śe yāśca̍ de̱vatā ̍ e̱tasyā ̱ṃ prati̍-vasantye̱tābhya̍śca namo̱ |
nama ̍ ū ̱rdhvāyai̍ di̱śe yāśca̍ de̱vatā ̍ e̱tasyā ̱ṃ prati̍-vasantye̱tābhya̍śca namo̱ |
namo 'dha̍rāyai di̱śe yāśca̍ de̱vatā ̍ e̱tasyā ̱ṃ prati̍-vasantye̱tābhya̍śca namo̱ |
namo̍'vānta̱rāyai di̱śe yāśca̍ de̱vatā ̍ e̱tasyā ̱ṃ prati̍-vasantye̱tābhya̍śca namo̱ |
namo gaṅgā-yamunayor madhye ye̍ vasa̱nti̱ te me prasannātmā naściram jīvitaṃ va̍rdhaya̱nti̱ |
namo gaṅgā-yamunayor muni̍bhyaśca̱ namo̱ namo gaṅgā-yamunayor muni̍bhyaśca̱ namaḥ ||
oṃ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ