Oil and gas exploration policy: Why India should price risk, not subsidize it
India's latest attempt to incentivize hydrocarbon exploration has the right intent, but is covering up to half the cost of private efforts really the best…
Jatin Mehta: the quiet fugitive behind a billion-dollar vanishing act
Jatin Mehta built Winsome Diamonds into a market leader before quietly stepping down, fleeing India and leaving banks facing more than ₹6,800 crore in liabilities.…
MSME minister: How India’s amended law could create a more dynamic MSME sector for Viksit Bharat 2047
The legislation aims to give micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) a superior regulatory framework. With MSMEs playing a vital role in driving economic growth,…
Cussing at work: Where does anything-goes camaraderie end and Posh complaints begin?
Aditi Verma Thakur, managing partner, Aishani Partners, a professional who deals with employment-related issues, says cussing in office could be misconduct, but not all abusive…
Indian diplomacy needs envoys with a wider pool of experience and talent than the IFS can summon
India has been here before. The early Republic drew on eminence when the task demanded it—think of S. Radhakrishnan, Vijayalakshmi Pandit, K.M. Panikkar, V.K. Krishna…
OpenAI copyright case: the court ruling gave the company relief but doesn’t relieve the AI industry
Having concluded that there is no copyright violation in extracting facts from the information contained in training data, the court, as a natural extension of…
Golden Rule on the silver screen: ‘The Odyssey' has a message for a world suspicious of ‘the other’
Echoed in numerous ancient cultures, the Golden Rule asks us to treat others how we ourselves would like to be treated. Divinity is often given…
Fiscal federalism at risk: are Finance Commissions undoing a grand design of the Indian Constitution?
The Constituent Assembly vested extraordinary powers in the Centre on a grand bargain of power-sharing with Indian states. However, the 16th Finance Commission shifts the…
US-Iran war throws up a new diplomatic stressor for India
The Mecca Joint Defence Agreement, signed on 7 August by Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Türkiye, threatens to undermine India’s efforts to recast its ties with…
Michael Bloomberg: America needs to repeal rather than just suspend a rusty old shipping law
An old law framed to shield the US shipping industry, the Jones Act of 1920, was suspended after the Iran war broke out. That it’s…