Once defeated candidates reclaim campaign gifts… Indian democracy has finally matured and now comes with a refund policy. Across parts of Telangana, defeated candidates in the municipal elections reportedly visited voters to reclaim campaign cash and gifts, unless the voters could prove that they exercised their constitutional right in favour of the gift-bearing political Santa….
Op Sindoor, Op Epic Fury…military operations’ names are meant to send big messages What’s in a military operation name? Quite a bit, actually. Despite being coordinated between America’s Pentagon and Israel’s Kirya, Washington and Tel Aviv have decided to use two separate op names for their Iran campaign – Op Epic Fury and Op Roaring…
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi first visited Israel in 2017, he broke new diplomatic ground as the first Indian Prime Minister to undertake a standalone bilateral trip to the Jewish state. That visit symbolised the culmination of a long, gradual shift in India’s West Asia policy — from hesitation and distance to open strategic engagement….
India’s Production Linked Incentive (PLI) programme has emerged as a major driver of manufacturing expansion, investment inflows and export growth, with tangible gains recorded across priority sectors. According to official data reviewed up to end 2025, the PLI schemes have led to actual investments of nearly Rs 2 lakh crore across 14 sectors. These investments…
People all over the world are right in praising India’s digital payments story. India is today a leader in digital payments because the entire ecosystem was built on three things: trust, modernisation, and compliance. The trust was achieved through public digital networks like UPI; modernisation was brought about through the use of real-time, API-driven architectures;…
Creating valuable and impactful content takes time – hours of research, drafting, and polishing to produce that one well-crafted article or blog post. Yet the way we write for a blog is entirely different from how we communicate on Instagram, WhatsApp, or in an email campaign. Each platform has its own rhythm, tone, and reader…
While much of the global economy has slowed under the weight of high interest rates, stalling commercial engines, and rising geopolitical uncertainty, India’s economy looks to be in rude health. According to a report by the BBC, growth was at a whopping 7.3 per cent in 2025, exceeding that of Europe, the US, and China….
In this month of March that belongs to women the world over it is good to look at the versatile art practice of Maya Burman whose show concluded in Mumbai at Art Musings last month. In her work she is known to embrace diverse media and projects, which also has painting and drawing, and mural commissions,…
US and Israel jointly attack Iran, but one of them is confused Donald Trump in a phone conversation with Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu. Trump: Hi Nate, how’re they hangin’ now that we’ve slammed Iraq and whacked that Saddam fella? Bibi: Hello Donnie (off-phone aside): If he’s going to call me Nate, I’ll damn well call him…
Prussian military strategist Carl von Clausewitz famously said, “War is merely the continuation of politics by other means.” It is in just this vein that we are witnessing a hegemon, US, incoherently wage war. The policy that the Iran war is supposed to support and execute, its rationale, changes with each interview and speech Trump…