Hair Salons ought to have Oldie Hours Dinesh K Kapila Now this suggestion is by experience. That hair salons or as we say hairdressers or barbers need to introduce ‘oldie hours’, like happy hours at bars. Believe me, it will work. Rather generate returns. Returns which they cannot calculate or even fathom as they are focused solely on the youngsters. As you well, mature and then mature more in terms of the years passing by, the thick crop of hair on the head starts to thin out. Tablets, lotions and oils really do not work. That slice of a moon which is your bald pate starts to be visible and then only increases, very stealthily. It just creeps up on you. This thinning on the pate reduces the need for prolonged long sittings for a hair cut. Fifteen minutes is all it takes. Therein lies the problem. I was sitting at a hair salon. Patiently. Requested to wait. Quietly looking around and observing the immense range of services being rendered, head massage, curls being straight...
Between 2001 and 2025, India transitioned from a phase of "jobless growth" to a period of massive job creation. Total employment surged from roughly 40 crore to over 61.6 crore, driven by the service sector and informal/gig economies. Meanwhile, overall labour productivity increased steadily, though manufacturing specifically has struggled with fragmented, low-productivity growth. Aggregate Employment & Labour Productivity (2001 vs. 2025) 2001: Employment: Around \(400\) million workers. The early 2000s were frequently characterized by "jobless growth"—where the economy grew at roughly \(4 - 5\%\), but job creation in the organized sector remained largely stagnant. Labour Productivity: Output per worker was relatively low, growing at about a \(3 - 4\%\) annualized rate, deeply constrained by a lack of formalized skilling and heavy reliance on the agricultural sector for employment. 2025: Employment: Reached over \(616\) million (61.6 crore) workers aged 15 and...