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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
INDIA
‘We, the People’: Pride, helplessness and the dharma of democracy
India today is both a source of pride and a sense of disorientation. Our democracy survives, but the absence of accountability, fairness, and civic discipline raises a blunt question: are we truly living up to the promise of our republic?
BUSINESS
The new geo-economics India must prepare to compete in
India’s rising share of global GDP signals opportunity but not inevitability. Converting scale into lasting influence will demand human capital, institutional strength, innovation, and deeper but tougher reforms
BUSINESS
OPINION | Corporate Transparency Cannot Be Optional: Why diluting disclosure harms investors
Donald Trump’s call to reduce frequency of corporate reporting echoes a flawed belief that less disclosure fosters long-term vision. Invoking China to peg his argument is unpersuasive as over 250 Chinese companies are listed in the three major US stock exchanges. In reality, transparency and rigorous governance remain the true foundations of investor trust
INDIA
Broken health insurance shows regulatory health is weak
If fine print and failed oversight define our health insurance, can we really call it protection and assurance? If you have ever experienced a hospital mediclaim process, you will know
TECHNOLOGY
Perplexity’s Chrome Tones: Is this the boldest AI ‘land’ grab yet?
Perplexity’s audacious bid for Chrome is less about buying a browser than seizing the gateway to the internet itself. If it succeeds, the startup could leap decades ahead in influence, data, and AI capability - but the risks, from regulators to rivals, are as immense as the prize
INDIA
Kal, Aaj, Kal: An Independence Day reflection
From childhood optimism to middle-class restlessness, daily lived-experiences in an India still becoming. A reflective call to look beyond pride, confront contradictions, and invest in equitable growth, justice, and meaningful governance
INDIA
Food safety cannot be a one-sided fight
Selective enforcement undermines consumer trust and fails to address the real risks across India’s food supply chain
INDIA
Middle class by memory, not by money
We still call ourselves middle class even when we’re not, passing on thrift as virtue, annoying our children with nostalgia, and forgetting that mindful abundance can honour our past better than self-denial ever could
SPORTS
Djokovic and the grace of knowing when
Even the strongest will and finest craft can’t outrun time — and that’s what makes Djokovic’s twilight both human and heroic. At some stage, greatness becomes not about staying in the fight at any cost, but about recognising which battles are no longer worth waging
BUSINESS
Air India’s Real Turbulence: where is the passenger-first intent?
The Ahmedabad plane crash has raised many questions -- Is Air India missing a TrueNorth. Not just for crisis response, but for its purpose of existence
BUSINESS
The RBI has acted. Now the emotional economics must kick in.
When the central bank does its bit, the rest of the system must respond. So far, the response has been cautious, patchy and uncertain
INDIA
What Nestlé India’s choice of an ‘outsider’ as chief tells us
Despite its century-old presence in India and a global Indian talent pool, Nestlé has turned to an ‘outsider’ to lead its India business. It has triggered critical questions about internal talent pipelines, governance priorities, and how even MNCs can fall short on succession depth
