LIFESTYLE
Mango musings : Aam ka Season, India ka emotion
From childhood cricket and stolen raw mangoes to grandmother’s mango pickles and quiet rituals, the mango carries India’s deepest memories. Each summer it is a reminder: the sweetest things take time.
BUSINESS
OPINION | India’s states hold the key to Viksit Bharat
India is often described as one economy, yet its growth is driven by unequal regional capabilities.The next phase of development will depend on how intelligently the Union and the states convert this diversity into a coordinated national advantage
LIFESTYLE
March closing and the sudden virtue of India Inc
Financial year ending | The approach of March 31 has a remarkable management effect. Targets are chased with heroic urgency, strategies are reinvented, posters about excellence mysteriously appear and even office rivalries acquire unexpected civility.
POLITICS
OPINION | Can nations outsource security without losing their sovereignty?
Alliances may offer protection, but they can also import conflicts, rivalries and strategic compulsions that are not a nation’s own. The real test of sovereignty lies in whether a country can secure itself without becoming dependent on another power’s protection
TECHNOLOGY
OPINION | AI’s social costs India cannot ignore
India’s AI surge is racing ahead of its institutional readiness and labour reality. Unless policymakers confront the trade-offs now, the technology dividend could quickly become a social liability. The real disruption is not the algorithm itself but the capacity to absorb its consequences
LIFESTYLE
Jamsetji Tata birth anniversary: Why India still reveres older corporate titans
Long after their time, India’s business founders continue to shape boardroom thinking and national imagination. Their stories endure because they fused commercial ambition with human purpose in ways that remain instructive today.
LIFESTYLE
Curious dip in hotel dining standards: Good service can't make up for plain calories dressed up as cuisine
In modern hospitality, abundance has replaced artistry — and diners are left hungry for more than calories. Service can remain flawless even as flavour disappears.
TECHNOLOGY
OPINION | Legacy systems might survive AI, but old strategies will not
Artificial intelligence will not merely modernise legacy systems. It will reorder economic advantage and geopolitical power. For India, the real danger is not slow adoption, but assuming disruption will arrive on our terms By
TECHNOLOGY
India’s AI summit and the hard work ahead
India’s AI summit is a geopolitical milestone, but milestones do not equal tech-mastery. The harder test is whether summit diplomacy can translate into the long, difficult work of building real technological capability at home
LIFESTYLE
Learning to say ‘no’, to make room for better ‘yes-es’
We grow up believing that a good life is built on saying yes. Often, the path to focus, inner balance, freedom, and self-respect begins with learning to say no.
POLITICS
OPINION | Can a year in the private sector make India’s bureaucracy sharper?
BUSINESS
OPINION | India’s Budget test in a harder global economy
This year’s Union Budget will be read as a signal of intent, not a list of allocations. In a fractured global order and a charged domestic economy, India must show whether it is ready to govern for the decade ahead
LIFESTYLE
Healthy breakfast: Upma is not just food. It is information
If upma appears twice in a short period, something has gone wrong. In our cultural plate, food is never just food; it is mood, message, and emotional shorthand. Have you wondered why this simple dish unsettles us so deeply?
POLITICS
OPINION | The Unaccountable Pillars: India’s real reform begins within
For Viksit Bharat, India must replace its inherited ‘master-servant’ culture with a governance-model rooted in genuine transparency, measurable performance, and moral accountability
TECHNOLOGY
OPINION | India's digital future – sovereignty or stagnation?
Digital power now rests on owning intelligence, infrastructure, and trust. Can India build all three?
LIFESTYLE
New Year 2026: New year resolutions in the season of ‘New Year, New Me’, and one anti-resolution to try at yearend
Every December-end, we plan our life upgrades with the confidence of a startup pitch and the memory of a goldfish. By mid-January, most of those New Year resolutions are gone, but the guilt, screenshots, and fancy kits we bought, remain.
BUSINESS
OPINION | Risk-Based Deposit Insurance: Banking’s long-awaited adulthood?
Risk-based deposit insurance aligns premiums with behaviour. Its success now depends on whether Indian banks and their boards are prepared to accept accountability rather than rely on systemic cushioning. Over time, it could become the foundation for a banking system where trust is earned through conduct, not assumed through regulation
LIFESTYLE
Chennai music season 2025: The kutcheri where WhatsApp stole the spotlight
Chennai December music festival, in an era where the music floats in the air but the phone screens glow brighter than the stage lights.
BUSINESS
OPINION | The Mirage of Big Tech Investment in India: A closer look
India is celebrating record investment pledges from Big Tech, yet most of this capital reinforces our role as an operating base rather than an innovation leader. Policymakers must look past headline numbers and confront the structural gaps that prevent India from owning the intellectual property that defines real technological power
BOOKS
Book Review: Why The Poor Don’t Kill Us by Manu Joseph
Manu Joseph’s first non-fiction work is a ruthless and unsettling mirror held up to the ‘republic of privilege’. It prods, provokes, embarrasses and leaves a burn that lingers long after the laughter fades
TRAVEL
Opinion | Travel mayhem in peak holiday season: Why December is the month we travel most and relax least
If travel were a personality, December would be dramatic. December travel is a full-time emotional sport, complete with overpriced tickets, airport hunger pangs, flight delays and cancellations, and social-media envy. Seemingly, it’s now becoming a ritual of chaos, craving and collective surrender in Indian society.
POLITICS
OPINION | IndiGo Lessons for Core Infra Sector: Market concentration cripples Indian aviation
The IndiGo disruption illustrates how a duopolistic aviation sector can transmit private failure into national economic friction. India’s regulatory architecture remains reactive where it must become preventive
TECHNOLOGY
OPINION | Sanchar Saathi: A framework at odds with the ‘Right to Privacy’
India’s proposal to embed a government app inside every smartphone is being sold as cyber safety, but it is fundamentally a test of constitutional restraint. The move raises urgent questions about surveillance, personal autonomy and the quality of digital policymaking itself
LIFESTYLE
Home cooked food: Modern stressors of cooking at home in a pressure cooker world
Home cooking has quietly morphed into a Michelin test that nobody applied for. Even dal or dosa must now come with beauty, aroma and emotional range. Everyone else offers criticism with the confidence of people who can barely boil water.
