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The crisis at Byju’s is not an unusual development for the tech sector, where failure and fraud are endemic. The bigger issue is the social implications of Byju’s failure. India has an under-educated population struggling for access to better education. Byju’s positioned itself as the solution to a huge, unmet need. So the collapse of Byju’s valuation and the impact on edtech funding pulls down the ‘valuation’ of the demographic dividend, Devangshu Datta argues. Read it here
In other views:
R Gopalakrishnan explains why behavioural aberrations beyond the boundaries of business sanity and neeyat must engage the attention of boards. Read it here
Atanu Biswas assesses the efficacy and entertainment value of ‘bazball’ in Test cricket. Read it here
Rajan Menon explains why Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine strategy will be a lose-lose proposition for him in the long run. Read it here
