Don’t celebrate the IMF’s outlook just yet: How resilient is India’s growth story in a fractured world?
Globally, inflation is projected to rise from 4.1% in 2025 to 4.4% in 2026, driven by energy and food shocks. India saw inflation ease in…
How India’s Brics presidency could transform this multi-nation platform into a global force for reform
India’s Brics presidency coincides with global uncertainty and turmoil. However, as a voice of the Global South, Brics awaits the coherence needed to improve its…
Kapal Mehra: the man who aimed to be India’s polyester king but ended up with nothing
In 1985, customs, excise and income tax authorities raided the company, alleging under-invoicing of polyester chip imports and tax evasion. Mehra challenged the proceedings in…
India’s open-code approach faces an AI stress test as new tools like Anthropic’s Mythos expose hidden flaws
Access to new AI security tools, however, is not assured. In the US, cyber defence clubs have arisen. Anthropic and OpenAI have forged alliances to…
A fable of elephants and horses that bulls and bears of India’s stock market don’t want told aloud
Foreign merchants, our Y, have pulled out about ₹3.4 trillion from Indian equities on a net basis in 15 months; over ₹1.1 trillion in the…
The wages of a K-shaped economy: India’s demographic dividend may be slipping away
Is it time to retire the ‘demographic dividend' from India's national narrative? Recent labour protests have put a spotlight on wage stagnation amid rising prices,…
India’s push to arm itself with its own products could spell a variety of strategic gains
The shift underway, however, signals a more purposeful approach. Policy instruments such as the Defence Acquisition Procedure 2020 and the draft Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP)…
India’s low wages and high profits—why a moment of labour reckoning may be upon us
The employer avoids statutory obligations, the labour contractor pockets a margin and the worker must absorb every risk—of illness, injury, job loss and inflation—with no…
Nitin Pai: The diversity of Indian genomes should cue changes in India’s approach to public health
The same process has produced thousands of distinct metabolic profiles at the clinical level. Consequently, it is not very meaningful to think of public health…
Iran talks, China’s rise, and US’s shrinking ally base
The election loss for Orban means Trump is now one ally less in the world. Trump now has an unenviable record of having angered, annoyed,…