Voice to capital: What India’s Brics summit leaves behind
India's presidency has helped bring these issues together. The Growth and Development Task Force, work on climate finance and adaptation, the focus on central banks…
India should aim to attract at least $100 billion a year in net FDI—but much reform work must be done for that
Reduce the cost of doing business: India has made significant progress on the ease of doing business. The next challenge is to lower the cost…
Governance lesson: A good government is recognized by how effectively it ensures good outcomes, not the power it wields
Tragedies like the recent collapse of an unauthorized building in Delhi's Satya Niketan is a call for greater state capacity rather than more displays of…
The world after 9/11: more wars, old threats and a rising right
Israel's foreign minister, Gideon Saar, responded with counter-measures, including shutting the UK's consulate in East Jerusalem. Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s far-right finance minister and chief settlement…
Lessons from 9/11’s fallout: America can’t ignore its internal rupture as it chases shadowy enemies abroad
The gravest threat to America’s future isn’t Islamist radicalism or foreign adversaries, but the hardening of two antagonistic blocs with contrasting visions of the country’s…
Real estate versus a mutual fund: Indian tax anomalies have warped this choice. Parity please
Households, companies and governments all save and borrow. In India, households, in aggregate, save more than they borrow. We park those savings in physical assets…
Hardening yields: the global bond market rout holds out four clear policy lessons for India
The US, UK, France and Japan now confront elevated sovereign bond yields. Large US deficits co-exist with strong growth; Japan faces rising yields after decades…
Thinking of AI agents as digital humans is convenient but we mustn’t take this analogy too far
In the article, Patel described how hundreds of artificial intelligence (AI) agents within OpenAI, tasked with passing an evaluation, organized themselves over a period of…
Rising bond yields abroad have implications for India: policymakers must stay alert
The lesson for India is to keep chipping away at economic reforms, enabling the ease of business and deepening of profit pools. Contrary to the…
Manu Joseph: There is a reason we should trust the word of the RSS when it says good things
If all living things and what they form can evolve, the RSS can too. In fact, it has excellent reasons to do so. It has,…