Question 51. While bilateral ties have been _________for decades, the defence and security partnership is clearly the new driver for ties between the two governments; the signing of the strategic partnership agreement was the highlight of the UAE leader’s visit. The _________of this partnership are now being set: joint military exercises, joint manufacturing and purchase of equipment and spare parts from India, as well as ________on fighting terror.

Question 52. Over 300 million people in India are _____________ and have no access to electricity. _____________ building grids or nuclear plants, Valley companies like Simpa Networks and Tesla have renewable solar battery packs and can light up every home with 24×7 efficient and low-cost energy. Simpa has already brought solar battery powered electricity to over 10,000 homes in Mathru district in just less than 12 months. These are the kind of new micro-grid and micro-power wall solutions that _____________ the common man’s problem to bring _____________ and clean energy.

Question 53. Organisations are gradually _____________ the importance of creating strong brands that provide real customer benefits so they can avoid falling prey to commoditisation. In other words, companies are realising that it’s the only way _____________. To a point, marketing and brand building exercises can help _____________ one’s products and services and break the monotony and commoditisation but after that one often needs to turn to innovation and constant technological upgrades _____________ mindshare.

Question 54. Bridge is _____________ popular card sport in the world with over 100 countries as members of the World Bridge Federation. The estimated number of bridge players exceeds 60 million. But not many know that bridge _____________ the passion of corporate honchos and financial investors. Wall Street loves this cerebral game and some of _____________ players in the US are investors. A bridge buff, Warren Buffet had famously declared, “I _____________ mind going to jail if I had three cellmates who played bridge.” I have had the personal fortune of playing two boards with Bill Gates, some 20 years ago.

Question 55. Violence in the Terai can only make it difficult for that process to materialise. It would be good if all _____________ realise this. There are many in the top Indian leadership who wish to see Nepal enjoy the _____________ multi-party democracy and federalism in full measure. Some of them can surely muster sufficient goodwill in Kathmandu _____________ the Nepalese leadership to set up a Commission to look into the grievances of the Madhesis and the Tharus, especially with respect to _____________ of provinces and adequate representation.

Question 56. Goldman Sachs claimed _____________ no law. That’s precisely the problem. Our societies are _____________ by legal corruption. University professors are in cahoots with pharmaceutical companies that think nothing of _____________ hundreds of thousands of dollars for life and death products that _____________ hundreds. And economists who cannot see past markets support such nonsense.

Question 57. While fundamentally the differentiated business pillars mentioned above should _____________ sufficient, we realised that the execution _____________ done differently as well. The Indian mass market consumer, was new to the internet as was the SME merchant — just bringing the marketplace model to them _____________. We created ShopClues as India’s First “Managed” marketplace — what this meant was to take a very considered though opposing _____________ being the first pure marketplace to intermediate shipping, customer service and many other supporting services from day one etc. Since then, many other ecommerce companies have “pivoted” to the model, but our clear differentiation has stood us in good stead.

Question 58. In the Hindu Puranas, the problem is never with wealth. Wealth is a goddess, Lakshmi, one of the _____________, invoked in the Shri Sukta of the Rig Veda for cows and grain and gold and children. The problem is with our relationship with wealth. In the Puranas, Brahma’s son Indra is always chasing wealth. In contrast, Vishnu attracts wealth and Shiva is _____________ to wealth. The wealth chasers are not worshipped; the wealth-attractors and the wealth-ignorers are _____________ in temples. Vishnu is linked to householders and Shiva to hermits. But then Shiva is made to marry a princess of the mountains, Parvati, who is also the goddess of food, Anna-poorna, thus _____________ to the value of food, if not wealth, in human society. Even the hermit who shuns wealth needs food. Thus, production and distribution of food and wealth are separated, though both are seen as key to society.

Question 59. Indeed, as global pharmaceutical companies themselves come under pressure in their home countries as to just how expensive cutting-edge, patented medicines can be, _____________ generics versions, this is becoming a concern beyond just India. A story that came to _____________ recently was of an Australian academic who began suffering from Hepatitis C, his liver reaching a critical precancerous stage, and realised patented medicines down under _____________ him $100,000 for a course. He made his way to Chennai and bought generics versions of the same drug for less than $1,000. Completely cured, he is now running a _____________ the high price of patented medicines.

Question 60. While even the ILO refers only to ‘labour’, the fact is that today’s refugees and migrants are often _____________ labour. They deserve protection from social and political _____________ and economic discrimination in host nations. Be it in Europe or in China, in West Asia or North America, every modern nation must grant the ‘right of entry’ and human security to refugees and migrants, coming _____________ the laws of demographics and the human instinct for survival. Stringent visa systems and immigration laws are a 20th century _____________ that have no place in the 21st.