In ‘Made in India: The Story of Desh Bandhu Gupta, Lupin and Indian Pharma’ Manish Sabharwal and Sundeep Khanna provide readers more than a mere corporate hagiography.
Delhi’s message is that AI governance must not become an exclusive club of the already powerful.
BY Ashutosh Kumar Thakur 17 February 2026
To ask whether Indians read for pleasure is to impose a narrow definition of pleasure. India’s literature festivals are not symptoms of a culture estranged from books. Literature festivals in India emerge organically. They are not substitutes for reading. They are extensions of it.
BY Ashutosh Kumar Thakur 11 February 2026
Educated in Calcutta and Delhi, Béteille spent much of his academic life at the Delhi School of Economics.
BY Ashutosh Kumar Thakur 6 February 2026
In the quiet corridors of corporate India, the most powerful stories aren’t in the boardrooms—they’re hidden in sketchbooks, unfinished poems, and melodies waiting to return.
BY Ashutosh Kumar Thakur 16 November 2025
An Evening Written in Smoke and Dust.
BY Ashutosh Kumar Thakur 14 November 2025
In the end, exit polls are not the problem; our faith in them is. They are snapshots, not verdicts, approximations in a land that defies neat equations. Their value lies in provoking debate, not in deciding destiny.
BY Ashutosh Kumar Thakur 12 November 2025
In Bihar’s predominantly Hindu demography, Seemanchal stands apart. Nearly half of its population, in Kishanganj, as much as 68 per cent, is Muslim.
BY Ashutosh Kumar Thakur 10 November 2025
Pandey’s death leaves a void, not just in Indian advertising, but in the wider cultural imagination. He was, in every sense, a craftsman of narratives, a teacher, a guide, and a friend.
BY Ashutosh Kumar Thakur 24 October 2025
Nobel Laureate László Krasznahorkai’s fiction carries the texture of decay, the slow crumble of certainty, the dust of exhausted faith.
BY Ashutosh Kumar Thakur 11 October 2025
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