1. The presence of information in electronic _____________ on real-time basis - and the availability of advanced natural language processors - helps one measure sentiment of any new information on a continuous basis. Whether an investor will act rationally _____________ availability of information depends on the 'effort' that the investor_____________ to put in processing such information. Vendors who provide sentiment scores on news are - in a way - reducing the mental effort _____________ process any information. They would - therefore - argue that an investor needs to spend a fraction of her limited attention span to act on available sentiment.

2. This seems counterintuitive but is a growing leadership challenge. High performance and individual happiness cannot stay _____________ - notwithstanding the hardliner view that workplaces are about business success alone. It_____________ helps the individual nor eventually the organisation. It is not just about engagement levels at a workplace - which _____________ a short-term issue. It is about a Happiness Quotient - a bedrock of long-term effectiveness and _____________ high performance. How can we create Happier Workplaces - not just successful ones? Places where there is a sense of joy and fulfilment - of trust and collaboration. And yes - tasks get delivered without a ringmaster's presence.

3. India is displeased with the treatment of the ethnic minorities and _____________ no great effort to conceal this. What are the lessons to be learnt? Constitution-making hasto be a _____________ exercise - as it was in India - when every member of the Constituent Assembly _____________ his or her signature to the charter of rights and responsibilities._____________ - if that is not possible - the next best thing may be to get the concurrence of the largest possible majority. This is what the Nepalese have done. They may - rightfully - point out that the vast majority of the Constituent Assembly voted for the Constitution in its present form.

4. Though there's a lot of buzz on rehabilitating the refugees - the world _____________ needs to focus all its energies on ways to consummate the 4-year long civil war. The world is _____________ over the Syrian crisis. Russia and Iran backing the Assad regime whereas US - Europe alongside few Gulf countries want Assad to vacate power. The_____________ want Assad to continue to prevent Syria from falling into further chaos - thus allowing subsequent strengthening of IS's foothold. The latter want to dislodge Assad's regime _____________ all the atrocities conducted by him; the reason behind the break of civil war.

5. Ultimately - any such formal recognition must be informed by experiences from real-life content removal requests. In Europe - where the right to be forgotten _____________ - many of the data-deletion requests involve the _____________ past criminal behaviour. Nearly 20% of the requests were for removal of reportage relating to fraud - and 12% for allegations relating to child pornography. The question now is _____________ protection of individual privacy is_____________ important than the protection of an uncensored internet.

6. Recent plunges in China's stock markets - currency value and economic growth have _____________ global fears. After a long spell of gravity defying rise - the sudden spectacle of China stumbling and panicking _____________ confidence in President Xi Jinping's 'dream of national _____________ has upset calculations of not just Chinese consumers and producers - but _____________ international stakeholders.

7. Access to the right infrastructure - both digital and physical - _____________ an issue for most SMEs - particularly traders and retailers. We see that large ecommerce companies now provide warehousing facilities for retailers to store and catalogue their inventory - even extending in-house logistics teams or third-party logistics support. This has also created _____________ for cataloguing startups that help sellers list their products online and manage inventory_____________ marketplaces. It's not enough to go e-tail - sellers have realised - without going digital. Today_____________ before - they all transact online. This creates a much easier and transparent digital ecosystem in which to operate.

8. Efforts have been made in the past to cleanse the sector - but without success .The Appropriate Authority was set up by the tax department for pre-emptive purchase of property in cases where the value was _____________ .But the experiment flopped. There were litigations - the tax department was _____________ with high priced properties - _____________ could not be disposed of. These were_____________ to officers for residential purposes. I recall colleagues staying in palatial accommodation in Golf Links - Malabar Hill and Cuffe Parade. The funds of the Government were unnecessarily blocked. The institution had to be scrapped.

9. We constantly ask when India _____________ the next Google - Facebook or Uber. _____________ are given but I believe it starts with the thinking. You must - right at the start - think and believe that your product - your company - is global. Google didn't say it wants to index all information in Mountain View - or California - or the United States. No. It said it wants to _____________ all the information in the world-” global from Day One. Similarly - Uber _____________ it is the private driver for everyone in the United States. It said 'Everyone's private driver.' Global from Day One.

10. Xi is widely accepted as the most authoritarian Chinese leader since Deng Xiaoping. Some _____________ labelled him as a 21st century Mao Zedong. _____________ - this control freak ideology has limits in keeping the lid on underlying problems. The series of 'administrative interventions' ordered by Xi in the past few weeks _____________ the bearish stock market - put a floor on the renminbi's depreciation - and prevent capital flight _____________ that the strongman method of crisis-response does not compensate for fundamental economic weaknesses.

11. The ecommerce boom has certainly been good for consumers - but what it has almost _____________ done for sellers is even more phenomenal. India has over 30 million small and medium enterprises which employ 40 per cent of the country's workforce but _____________ to only 20 per cent of the GDP. There are _____________ for this - but thethree main reasons are lack of access to markets and a consumer base - lack of infrastructure - both digital and physical - and most important lack of financing. With the growth of ecommerce a large segment of these SMEs has suddenly received that much-_____________ shot in the arm.

12. 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 afterthat one often needs to turn to innovation and constanttechnological upgrades _____________ mindshare.

13. While even the ILO refers only to 'labour' - the fact is thattoday'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.

14. While the good is getting better - the bad may be getting_____________. The situation in Afghanistan - including Pakistan's role in planting designated terrorists as the new Taliban 'leaders' with _____________ US acceptance - has alarmed New Delhi. Washington's continuous _____________to believe in Islamabad's myth-making abilities _____________ a sour point but the latest play has made New Delhi extremely unhappy.

15. No matter how great you think your product is - it will always improve _____________ if you go beyond India to tap other markets and find other users who will try it. In Singapore - we learnt a lot about how healthcare is practiced in a developed country - how responsive and scalable our infrastructure _____________. We took a lot ofthese learnings and put them back into our product so thatthe next version was 10x better. What we also did was to not build a 'Singapore version' -“ we decided that if we goto a country and learn something that is better - we will_____________ our product globally _____________ that - not do isolated versions for each country.

16. But our research _____________ that investors cannot operate on divided attention. Major non-market attention-grabbing events overwhelm firm _____________ information carrying strong sentiment. For example - when Hazare was on his fast - a positive news item on Coal India gaining Maharatna status _____________ negative sentiment. Its price fell by almost 2 per cent over the next two days. Around the same period - there was neutral-to positive news on Infosys with officials _____________ in talks to have the IT company set up local presence. Strangely - the stock reported a negative cumulative abnormal return (CAR) of 1 per cent in the two days around the Hazare event.

17. Birds migrate long stretches - sometimes even thousands of miles between its breeding and non-breeding ground - a journey _____________ many hiccups - often perilous - but it doesn't have the luxury to reproduce and blossom in a fixed habitat. It has to fly to a new spot - sometimes_____________ food - some other times to escape harsh winters - the reasoning the same each time-the desire to survive. Migration as a phenomenon is nature's remarkable way of _____________ Darwin's theory-'Survival of the fittest'; the Syrian migrants _____________ the theory even more vehemently.

18. Already the success of the franchise based leagues isturning sport into an aspirational _____________ for youngsters. The support of private capital assures lucrative _____________ - while the platform these leagues provide ensure players get the _____________ they deserve. Today - our sporting heroes come from sports beyond only cricket. Hand in hand with our growing success on the global sporting stage - sports persons competing in boxing - shooting - snooker - wrestling - chess - golf - and most recently - kabaddi and football are _____________ becoming household names.

19. Through the 'product envelopment' strategy - firms expand features of their platforms and offerings. The _____________ Myntra by Flipkart for about $300 million is a notable example. This has helped Flipkart _____________ its product line in fashion apparel and target brand-conscious customers. By acquiring Freecharge - Snapdeal could_____________ the mobile payment platform into its ecommerce offerings. The same holds for Flipkart recently acquiring FX Mart - which provides a prepaid wallet licence so that payment platforms _____________ into Flipkart's online stores platform.

20. India is now at that crucial stage where inflation is falling - growth has slowed down _____________ and more interest rate cuts are _____________. However - the timing of these rate cuts is a bit _____________ as the inflation trajectory is still not very clear. One has to remember that India has witnessed continuously high inflation over the last 7 years and - therefore - the central bank would likely to wait for concrete proof that inflationary expectations have been broken before cutting rates _____________.

21. Despite its fears of migrants - India has been home to_____________ Nepalis and Bangladeshis. Many moons ago - persecuted refugees such as the Parsi community and Jews_____________ India their home. Countries with totalitarian and authoritarian systems have to also find ways in whichthey can _____________ migrants. Demographic shifts - with ageing societies losing their global competitiveness - _____________ this more compelling.

22. This is a revolution spurred not by policy change or government grants but by private capital. The success ofthese leagues comes from the work of venture capitalists - bankers - business persons - actors - statisticians - an international technical crew and an evolving media - whotogether have all _____________ these sports with professionalism and a glossy _____________. This is not to saythat cricket is losing its lustre. Far from it. Cricket - our national obsession - remains the _____________ sport in India. The 2015 World Cup - despite being played in an 'inconvenient' time zone - delivered the best ever ratings for any event on television. But cricket is no longer the only sport occupying the national _____________ anymore.

23. A search engine may weigh the public interest in such information _____________ the right of the person seeking its removal. But this process is _____________ transparent. Moreover - drawing attention to the content _____________ would only further highlight it - creating what is known as a'Streisand effect'. With online privacy and data protection fast becoming important areas of legislative consideration - it is only _____________ before proponents of the right to be forgotten seek its formal approval. But a nuanced conversation about this right will only get off the ground after a comprehensive right to privacy is established.

24. Let's simply decode the first verse of the Rig Veda. Language experts have concluded that there are older verses in the Rig Veda - _____________ when the books were re-organized - this verse was located as the first one. Atraditionalist will try to exclude general public people fromthe decoding exercise using various _____________ reasons. These isolationist rules were created to protect the_____________ of hymns - but _____________ breeding corruption in the priestly class - much like the License Raj. Again it is a burden we do not bear in the 21st century. The hymn is identified as Rig Veda 1.1.1 - meaning it is the first hymn (rig) of the first poem (sukta) of the first of the ten books (mandala).

25. Now - conventional western wisdom holds that by raising or lowering interest rates - central banks can curb or_____________ inflation. Apart from the immediate impact of rate changes - central bankers supposedly _____________ the power to anchor future inflationary expectations by signalling the future course of interest rates. _____________ - some economists believe that the central bank _____________ only one aim: to target inflation - and not get distracted by other tasks like influencing GDP growth or exports.