India's Growth Story Has a Jobs Problem
India's growth story has a strange emotional contradiction. The macroeconomic numbers can look impressive, but the young graduate at home…
India's Digital Economy Promised Equality. It May Be Creating a New Divide
India's digital revolution has one of the most powerful stories in the modern world: a tea seller accep…
India's Crisis Is Economic on the Surface, Moral at the Core
Every society prefers to describe its crisis in measurable terms. Inflation, unemployment, debt, growth, fiscal defic…
India Wants Capitalism Without Cruelty. Can It Build One?
India has never been fully comfortable with capitalism, yet it has never stopped desiring its rewards. We want wealth cr…
The Time to Prepare for Crisis Is Before the Crisis Becomes Visible
A leaking roof does not become a problem when the rain begins. It becomes a problem on the sunny day when some…
A Democracy Without Disagreement Stops Thinking
Democracy is often praised as the rule of the people, but that is only its surface. At its best, democracy is the discipline of di…
Not Every Detour Is Failure
Indian youth are trained early to fear the wrong turn. Choose the wrong stream, and the future is said to narrow. Fail one exam, and a family begins s…
India's Next Creative Boom Will Come From Ordinary Lives
The most original stories in India rarely announce themselves as stories. They sit in a tea stall where three generations…
In the Age of AI, Mathematical Thinking Is Civic Power
There was a time when mathematics entered public life only during budgets, board exams and the occasional argument over inf…
Power Does Not Corrupt Everyone; It Reveals Everyone
Adversity has a way of making people look noble. A leader out of office speaks of freedom. A party in opposition speaks of in…
India's Hustle Culture Is Forgetting the Point of Success
There is a particular light that appears in Indian cities after midnight: the glow of laptops in paying-guest rooms, cal…
The Next Superpowers Will Be Knowledge Civilisations
The old maps of power were drawn with ports, armies, oilfields, mines and sea lanes. The new maps are being drawn inside labo…
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