Technology

OPINION | India’s data centre boom faces rising environmental, regulatory challenges

India’s data centre expansion is accelerating with strong investment. However, high water and energy use and weak transparency risk undermining sustainability and long term resource security

OPINION | The Cost of Safe Harbour: What MeitY’s proposed amendments to the IT Rules mean for India’s digital businesses

India’s digital rulebook is no longer about meeting published compliance terms, it’s about staying in sync with a live, expanding framework of regulatory directions 

OPINION | The ‘Repeat Founder’ advantage and what data actually says 

While repeat founders have demonstrated more success in the past, new technology balances this bias out more than ever

OPINION | Will China hollow out global industrial capacities in new technologies?

Can a system that rewards scale, with innovation being a valuable byproduct, adapt to reward efficiency instead? For the global economy, China’s inability to reconcile the two, risks exporting price wars

OPINION | India’s child data protection needs infrastructure, not platform bans

Why India’s privacy law has sparked a deeper debate between banning risks and building infrastructure for digital safety 

OPINION | AI-led transformation is inevitable, but its social costs are not

We may be on cusp of a phase when AI-led automation squeezes openings for young members of the workforce. Learning from earlier technological disruptions, it’s the right moment to craft an AI Transition Scheme to mitigate social costs

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

OPINION | Purposeful Personalisation: AI-driven transformation in financial engagement

Financial institutions must move beyond generic outreach. They should adopt unified platforms and agentic AI to deliver timely, personalised, context-aware engagement. This builds trust, boosts conversion, and increases customer lifetime value

OPINION | The AI threat to Indian IT services is real but the doom narrative is overblown

Markets often swing between excessive optimism and excessive pessimism. The recent correction reflects genuine uncertainty. Yet writing off Indian IT as structurally impaired is not well-thought through 

OPINION | Evaluating India’s generative AI copyright framework and the DPIIT proposal

DPIIT proposes a mandatory blanket AI training licence with revenue-based royalties, raising concerns over fairness, rate-setting, compliance burdens, and unresolved personality rights implications 

Software isn’t dead, but its cozy business model might be

Companies must rethink their charging policy to reflect tasks completed rather than number of users

OPINION | Life in the Age of Subscriptions: We don’t buy, we just auto-renew

What started as convenience has turned into a permanent monthly tax on entertainment, software, and simply existing online. From streaming sports to cloud storage, modern digital life is less about choice and more about recurring payments 

OPINION | Digital Colonialism: The new East India Company in AI

From the East India Company to AI giants, the structure feels familiar. India supplies talent and data while the platforms, ownership, and profits increasingly live elsewhere 

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

OPINION | From AI anxiety to AI impact: Why the Delhi summit matters

The India-AI Impact Summit 2026 begins in the capital today. An outline of the backdrop to the Summit and a framework to judge its outcome follow 

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

OPINION | How Indian founders without fancy credentials beat pedigreed returnees

New research shows that it’s home-grown entrepreneurs who are champions. Having survived harsh operating conditions, they outperform entrepreneurs with a foreign pedigree used to working in an environment of abundance. Government, please note 

OPINION | The government’s proposal to amend the IT Rules cannot stand

The government’s proposed obscenity rules revive outdated standards, expand executive censorship, and impose vague restrictions, violating constitutional principles of free speech, equality, and separation of powers

OPINION | Juice, Not Just Water: Why power, not water, is the true bottleneck for Indian data centres

Learning from the mistakes of the US’ approach, there are three ways in which India can sidestep the most important constraint when a rapid scale up of data centres starts 

OPINION | Budget 2026 signals India’s shift to strategic, tech-led growth 

Budget 2026 is ultimately a statement of confidence, one that envisions India as a global hub for data infrastructure, manufacturing competitiveness, and semiconductor innovation

OPINION | Economic Survey highlights a new vision for tech sovereignty in India

India needs to rethink technological sovereignty. Focus should be on trust and predictable rules. Cross-border data flows are key. Forced localization isn’t the answer. AI and digital growth depend on this

OPINION | Davos Diaries: AI, and the battle for cognitive infrastructure

Davos shows the AI race is no longer about better models alone. It is about trust, governance and infrastructure, which will decide how AI scales and who controls it

OPINION | Budget 2026 must focus on innovation and deep-tech to drive growth

Budget 2026 must accelerate RDI fund deployment, incentivise climate-tech, strengthen FTAs, and simplify regulations to transform India into a global innovation and investment powerhouse

OPINION | Budget 2026 will test India’s innovation push and its impact

India enters Budget 2026 with growing technology momentum. Decisive R&D investment, industry-led innovation, and large-scale capital can turn intent into lasting global leadership

OPINION | India AI at Inflection Point: Capital, code and consequence

Are the Global investors signalling that India’s traditional technology narrative no longer excites them? Artificial Intelligence is quietly dismantling the labour-intensive model on which much of corporate India’s success was built