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.
BUSINESS
OPINION | The AI boom is real. The ‘hype accounting’ it has created is unreal
In AI-rush, world’s most celebrated industrial-disruption ever, the fastest is the imagination of those financing it. The circus of circular-money and ‘vibe-revenue’ around it is defying human-arithmetic
LIFESTYLE
How India loves: Dating, live-in relationships, (open) marriage, polyamory and reading the fine print of feelings
The way Indians date, marry or live-in, separate, and stay together reveals more than social shifts. It reflects who we’re becoming. Behind every swipe and ceremony lies a nation rethinking not just love, but the idea of togetherness itself.
BOOKS
Book Review: The Great Sanctions Hack by Urjit Patel
Dr. Urjit Patel’s new book is a sober reckoning with the 21st century’s most potent yet misunderstood weapon — economic sanctions. It is a timely reminder that what can be used as leverage abroad could just as easily become a liability at home
LIFESTYLE
Burnout and the myth of ‘success’: What happens when ambition becomes exhaustion
We spend years running toward goals that move faster than we do. Ambition was supposed to make us stronger — instead, it made us tired. One day, the body refuses, the mind revolts, and the heart whispers: enough.
SPORTS
OPINION | Equal pay for women’s cricket isn’t charity — it’s paying them their due
Cricket’s market(ing) power was never built on merit alone — it was built on belief. When we extend that belief to women cricketers, we will make the game ‘just’. Equality is the most rational investment India can make in its future champions
LIFESTYLE
They call Gen Z entitled. Maybe they’re just tired
Every generation thinks the next one has it easier. Yet India’s Gen Z is entering the toughest job market in decades — digital, fragmented, and unforgiving. And Gen Alpha may inherit an even more anxious world of AI, automation and endless comparison.
BUSINESS
OPINION | Technology didn’t create our anxiety, merely monetised it
Technology didn’t enslave us. The most reliable business in the world is the business of frightened apes. We are addicted to acknowledgment. The internet simply industrialised it
BUSINESS
OPINION | Balancing State power and market freedom in India
Every nation must shield its economic pillars when systemic stability is at risk. The true measure of governance lies in how the state protects markets without absolving them — and preserves both order and ethics in the process.
INDIA
Why India and Russia still understand each other: The long affair
Across wars, sanctions and shifting world orders, the India–Russia relationship has survived, out of shared instincts for sovereignty. It remains one of the world’s most quietly enduring partnerships, neither flamboyant nor fragile.
LIFESTYLE
FOMO economy: How Indians invest when prices soar
From gold and realty to crypto and clothes, Millennials and Gen Z are learning to balance ambition with anxiety.
BUSINESS
OPINION | Google, Vizag and Bengaluru: Questions about policy of progress and intent
India’s economic federalism, in parts, is busy chasing investments. But when public policy becomes a scoreboard, who keeps score of purpose, delivery, and dignity — and are we even asking the right questions?
BUSINESS
OPINION | Tata at a Turning Point: Governance, legacy, and the burden of greatness
The ‘moral centre’ of Indian enterprise now faces its most searching trial — to match the weight of its legacy with the discipline of modern capitalistic scrutiny
LIFESTYLE
Ever walked out of a meeting wondering why it was even called? You’re not alone
In India Inc, everyone looks busy but few are productive as India’s offices can be addicted to meetings. The cure is having smarter ones that respect time, dignity, and outcomes.
BUSINESS
OPINION | Acquisition Financing: RBI should keep prudence at the heart of reform
Allowing Indian banks to fund corporate acquisitions introduces opportunities but also unfamiliar risks - ones most are neither structured nor seasoned to manage. What is framed as financial modernisation must be guided by the same prudence that has long defined India’s banking stability under RBI’s stewardship
