Here’s looking back at our surreal contrasts—the broken bridge between our dollar millionaires and poor millions, between our food sufficiency and farm suicides. Our I-Day package.
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The last few generations of Indians have lived in an era of sweeping changes driven by passionate proselytisers of the market’s hidden hand—our...
Liberalisation, with its inbuilt accountability, freed up ostentatious urges amongst the rich. But CavinKare’s C.K. Ranganathan is an outlier...
Liberalisation opened up a brave, new world to consumers. And life has never been the same again.
Greater consumerism will create jobs, social mobility. State policy will have to keep balance alongside.
For the majority of farmers, growing the country’s food brings no assurance of well-being. Seven decades after independence, swings...
Group farming by small farmers, especially women, shows the way out of agrarian crises
The country’s bourses have ridden the waves and staved off downturns to stay on course for their record-breaking journeys
Digitisation is changing the way Indians are doing business—from urban buyers to small sellers
We have come a long way from the ‘licence raj’ that followed freedom from the Raj, but family-owned businesses still dominate the scene...
For the next economic miracle, India’s entrepreneurs need to bank on innovation, empathy and agility
Those black dial-up phones, long wait for trunk calls are gone; India’s tele-connectivity has segued into the era of modern smart
Single-screen cinema to OTT, the story of PVR multiplexes and Balaji Telefilms encapsulates the trajectory of popular entertainment in post...
Pilgrimage remains the Indian traveller’s primary motivation. But around that, everything else has changed down the decades.
From Nehru’s ‘restless gene’ to Kerala Travel Mart—a personal history of Indian tourism
Headlines from around the world last week
Travelling without their loved ones, coming just before and...
The manifesto was a painkiller, but reality will be a migraine for the ordinary Tamil. FM Palanivel...
Quite remarkable, actually, that such a clarification was needed. But then this is Karnataka, where most BJP...
“Of hundreds of journalists in Manipur, (ask yourself) why are these two arrested every time...
In case you missed it: News and newsmakers from India over the past week
A Rajput in charge of JD(U), another in charge of RJD, a Brahmin at the helm in Congress. What exactly is brewing in the homeland of...
Odisha has to be commended for supporting the Indian hockey team. But passion for the game as well as infrastructure is stuck in just one district.
Mental fitness is as important as pitch-perfect physical form. I managed the second—despite jet lag—only because of the year’s delay in the Olympics. And the former? Thank Klaus!
