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Manish Tewari | Too Big To Compete: How Duopolies Are Killing India’s Markets

Manish Tewari | Too Big To Compete: How Duopolies Are Killing India’s...

From aviation and e commerce, to digital payments and food delivery, duopolies have become the hidden architecture of...

28 Dec 2025 12:29 AM IST

Shobhaa De | Mumbai On Verge Of Being Bartered To Highest Bidder?

Shobhaa De | Mumbai On Verge Of Being Bartered To Highest Bidder?

The BJP and the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena are already in a celebratory mood, seeing the warring cousins on the...

27 Dec 2025 2:32 AM IST

OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | 2nd Open Letter to Usha Vance… (as yet only) 2nd Lady of the USA | Farrukh Dhondy

OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | 2nd Open Letter to Usha Vance… (as yet only)...

I speculate that the conversion of JD, perhaps influenced by your very perceptive and predictive self, to MAGA nonsense...

27 Dec 2025 2:23 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Gujarat Babus Get A Message And A Deadline

Dilip Cherian | Gujarat Babus Get A Message And A Deadline

On paper, this looks like routine governance, review meetings, status reports, and coordination memos. In reality, it...

26 Dec 2025 12:56 AM IST

Mohan Guruswamy | Why Is India Still So Dirty And Polluted?

Mohan Guruswamy | Why Is India Still So Dirty And Polluted?

The Ashok Mehta committee in 1977 was tasked with evolving an effective and decentralised system of development...

26 Dec 2025 12:42 AM IST

Shikha Mukerjee | Centre vs State: G-Ram-G Fresh Thorn in Torn Flesh

Shikha Mukerjee | Centre vs State: G-Ram-G Fresh Thorn in Torn Flesh

New G-RAM-G law shifts welfare burden to states and weakens rights-based employment

24 Dec 2025 11:30 PM IST

Bhopinder Singh | Bangladesh, Under Yunus, Appears To Be Sinking Rapidly Into Planned Chaos

Bhopinder Singh | Bangladesh, Under Yunus, Appears To Be Sinking...

Violence, extremism and historical revisionism threaten the nation’s fragile future

24 Dec 2025 11:03 PM IST

Sunil Gatade | Heroes, Villains, Side Artistes and Extras in India’s Politics of 2025

Sunil Gatade | Heroes, Villains, Side Artistes and Extras in India’s...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi remains the star performer of his party as the BJP created a hat-trick by winning Haryana,...

24 Dec 2025 6:58 AM IST

Syed Ata Hasnain | Amid B’desh Turbulence, Risks of Disorder in East

Syed Ata Hasnain | Amid B’desh Turbulence, Risks of Disorder in East

Unlike Pakistan, where the military still exerts some restraining influence over clerical power, Bangladesh lacks a...

24 Dec 2025 6:56 AM IST

The Committee also recommended doubling the limit for collateral-free lending to Rs 20 lakh for lending to MSMEs and self-help groups.

Anuja Bapat | Labour Codes: The Makeover Opportunity For MSMEs

November 21, 2025, marks a defining moment for Indian economy. For a predominantly labour-intensive economy,...

22 Dec 2025 8:12 PM IST

Aakar Patel | Key Bills’ Passage Without Scrutiny by House Panel Is Always a Bad Idea

Aakar Patel | Key Bills’ Passage Without Scrutiny by House Panel Is...

Voice votes and no committee review — democratic safeguards were sidelined in a rush.

22 Dec 2025 7:56 PM IST

K.C. Singh | Boosting, Resetting Gulf, Africa Ties for a New Age

K.C. Singh | Boosting, Resetting Gulf, Africa Ties for a New Age

A strategic push across West Asia and Africa amid trade disruption and geopolitical flux

22 Dec 2025 7:33 PM IST