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View All PicksFrom Marketing Zen to TIME100: How Shama Hyder Became One of the Diaspora's Most Recognised Digital Voices
The Indian-American founder of Zen Media has been named to TIME's 2026 Creators list, capping a journey that began with a marketing agency launched at 23 and a lifelong instinct for spotting where influence was headed next
Why India Won't Settle for "Same As Vietnam": Inside Piyush Goyal's Push for a Better US Tariff Deal
India's commerce minister is holding out for tariff terms that beat, not just match, what competing Asian exporters have secured from Washington — a strategy with real costs and real potential upside
The Quiet Reshuffle Behind the Big Reform: Why Vineet Joshi's Move Matters as Much as Nilekani's Appointment
As Nandan Nilekani takes charge of reforming India's exam system, a parallel administrative reshuffle — moving senior official Vineet Joshi out of Higher Education — signals the government wants new leadership, not just new technology
Deep Dives

Why D-Street Can't Look Away From This Earnings Season — Even Though It Wants To
With dozens of companies still due to report June-quarter results, India's Q1 FY27 earnings season has become the market's single biggest swing factor amid an already volatile macro backdrop

HDFC Bank and Axis Bank Just Had Their Worst Week in Ages — Here's What Actually Spooked Investors
India's two banking bellwethers shed 9.4% and 7.6% over the week following their June-quarter results, dragging benchmark indices down with them

Why $100 Oil Is Suddenly Everyone's Problem Again — And What It Means for India
Escalating US-Iran strikes have pushed Brent crude past the symbolic $100-a-barrel mark, threatening to unwind years of hard-won inflation control in India

The ₹8,700 Crore Idea Hiding in Plain Sight: How Better Rail Access Could Transform India's MSMEs
A new FICCI-KPMG report says improving rail freight access for small businesses could unlock thousands of crores in annual revenue for Indian Railways — while cutting logistics costs for the backbone of India's economy

A ₹5,680 Crore Bill Six Years in the Making: Inside Bank of Maharashtra's NMC Health Reckoning
The state-owned lender has absorbed a massive one-time charge tied to the collapse of UAE hospital group NMC Health — even as its core lending business keeps posting resilient growth
Startups

"I Have to Put Indian Flag": The Physician-Entrepreneur Betting Millions on a Landmark LA Tribute to India
Dr Kali P. Chaudhary has acquired the long-abandoned Oceanwide Plaza in downtown Los Angeles, with plans to rename it KPC Square and turn it into a lasting symbol of India in one of America's biggest cities

109 And Rising: What India's Relentless 2026 IPO Wave Says About Dalal Street's Appetite
Even as volatility grips secondary markets, India has already seen 109 IPOs and $11 billion raised across 1,120 equity funding rounds this year — a pace that puts 2026 on track to test the records...

The 20x Exit: Inside Baring Private Equity's Blockbuster Payday From LOHUM
A partial exit worth roughly ₹370 crore, an internal rate of return exceeding 80 per cent, and one of Baring's highest-multiple bets to date — the story of how a 2020 investment in a critical...

Ashneer Grover Is Back With A New Playbook: Inside "Fund My Staff," His Bet On Employer-Backed Lending
The outspoken BharatPe co-founder returns to the startup trenches with a fresh venture aimed at solving one of India's most persistent blue-and-grey-collar workforce problems — access to credit
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The Quiet Reshuffle Behind the Big Reform: Why Vineet Joshi's Move Matters as Much as Nilekani's Appointment
As Nandan Nilekani takes charge of reforming India's exam system, a parallel administrative reshuffle — moving senior official Vineet Joshi out of Higher Education — signals the government wants new leadership, not just new technology

The ₹8,700 Crore Idea Hiding in Plain Sight: How Better Rail Access Could Transform India's MSMEs
A new FICCI-KPMG report says improving rail freight access for small businesses could unlock thousands of crores in annual revenue for Indian Railways — while cutting logistics costs for the backbone of India's economy

An IIT Campus in America: What the First US Outpost of India's Most Iconic Institution Means for the Diaspora
For the first time, an Indian Institute of Technology is opening a campus on American soil, alongside a new IIT Bombay partnership with SUNY Old Westbury — a milestone moment for Indian higher education's global ambitions

Can Nandan Nilekani Fix India's Broken Exam System? PM Modi Bets on the Aadhaar Architect Again
Fresh from building the digital backbone of India's identity system, Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani is now tasked with reforming the National Testing Agency after a string of paper-leak controversies

The Quiet Force
Ratan Tata doesn't fit the modern idea of a global business icon. No aggressive visibility. No personal branding machinery. No Obsession with scale for it own sake. And yet he reshapoed the glohal perception of indian business, not through nocie, but through the stready accumulation of pricipled decisions made over decades.
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Ratan Tata doesn't fit the modern idea of a global business icon. No aggressive visibility. No personal branding machinery. No Obsession with scale for it own sake. And yet he reshapoed the glohal perception of indian business, not through nocie, but through the stready accumulation of pricipled decisions made over decades.
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