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GenZ has captured India’s imagination and has had quite a year. The youth protests over examination irregularities, that began in Delhi and spread across the country, have focused attention on issues of education, jobs and...
Two heartening developments suggest an irreversible change is under way: Indians are finally waking up to how much of what they eat is not what it is claimed to be. It doesn't matter whether the source is a multinational brand, a...
The Ganesh Chathurti long weekend, when Mumbai virtually stops working, saw a flurry of activity at India’s most storied business house as well as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). On the face of it, RBI issued a simple regulatory...
Even as I write this, somewhere in an Indian courtroom, a lawyer is asking a judge to silence a man who doesn't exist. In the US, he is called John Doe; In India, Ashok Kumar— a placeholder for an anonymous person who has not yet...
Sashidhar Jagdishan ended up doing two things his high-profile predecessor, Aditya Puri, successfully avoided for 26 years: a merger with Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (HDFC Ltd), the illustrious parent, and running a...
Last week brought a familiar Indian story dressed in a fresh set of numbers: an institution funded by the taxpayer treats its biggest defaulters with far more discretion than it shows an ordinary depositor who is late in updating ...
SY Quraishi insists his book is not a memoir. He is right; it is even better. Traditional autobiographies of public men in India tend to follow a predictable arc: hardship, struggle, ascent, vindication. Instead, Mr Quraishi offers a...
The impending exit of N Chandrasekaran (Chandra) as chairman of Tata Sons, takes us back, once again, to 1991, the year when Ratan Tata took charge of the Tata group and irrevocably transformed it from the days of his illustrious...
What is inside your food packet and, more importantly, what is not clearly indicated on its front, is now before the Supreme Court. A public interest petition (W.P.(C) No. 437/2024), filed by ‘3S and Our Health Society’ in 2024...
Across Maharashtra, restaurant and club kitchens are being steam-cleaned and scrubbed, pest-control contractors summoned and food storage practices reviewed with great urgency. After elite clubs and storied shops were raided and shut,...
Last week, this column talked about falling bridges – especially in Bihar—and India’s crumbling infrastructure. Almost immediately after, the Times of India reported on an even more surreal example of wasteful planning...
India has never invested more heavily in infrastructure than in the past decade. Highways, expressways, airports, tunnels, bridges and ports have been built at record speed. These have been showcased through drone footage, glossy videos...