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Lost art of intellectual hospitality!
May 1, 2026, 4:23 PM IST
Strength in engagement Every civilization leaves behind two kinds of architecture: monuments of stone and monuments of thought. The first endure as ruins; the second endure as arguments. What ultimately defines the intellectual vitality of…
May 1, 2026, 4:23 PM IST
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Climate risk vs war risk: Which will price capital first?
April 24, 2026, 10:02 PM IST
The temptation to frame climate and war risk as competing forces is analytically insufficient. The real question is not which dominates, but “which markets can structurally price within current financial architectures”. What defines this moment…
April 24, 2026, 10:02 PM IST
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The 2047 tax holiday: When nations start competing like corporations
April 17, 2026, 2:30 PM IST
By the time India marks 100 years of independence in 2047, taxation will no longer function as a classical instrument of sovereignty—it will operate as a strategic interface. Not between citizen and state, but between…
April 17, 2026, 2:30 PM IST
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The unintended consequences of stricter SEBI norms: Compliance or capital flight?
April 10, 2026, 8:56 PM IST
India’s market regulator is no longer merely tightening rules—it is redesigning the grammar of participation. In March 2026 alone, the regulatory velocity has been striking: from the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Amendment Rules (March 13) to…
April 10, 2026, 8:56 PM IST
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How the end of cheap money is reshaping India’s startup IPO pipeline
April 3, 2026, 2:20 PM IST
The defining story of the global startup ecosystem between 2024 and early-2026 is neither collapse nor renaissance. It is something more structural: a repricing of risk and a recalibration of capital discipline. For over a…
April 3, 2026, 2:20 PM IST
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Markets without masters
March 27, 2026, 11:53 AM IST
For most of the twentieth century, capitalism rested on a simple institutional arrangement: governments governed, corporations produced, and markets mediated between them. That architecture is now undergoing a structural mutation. Multinational corporations increasingly control the…
March 27, 2026, 11:53 AM IST
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Is India ready for the $3 trillion global tourism economy
March 20, 2026, 4:26 PM IST
Tourism is often described as a soft industry built on leisure and lifestyle. In reality, it is one of the hardest economic forces shaping the modern world. Every international visitor is effectively an export customer…
March 20, 2026, 4:26 PM IST
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Economic security is national security
March 13, 2026, 3:46 PM IST
For most of the twentieth century, national security was measured in divisions of soldiers, fleets of aircraft carriers, and the destructive capacity of nuclear arsenals. In the twenty-first century, however, the foundations of power are…
March 13, 2026, 3:46 PM IST
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From profit to legitimacy: The new corporate survival metric
March 6, 2026, 12:26 AM IST
For most of modern capitalism, corporations answered one central question: Can you generate profit? But the defining corporate question of the 2020s has quietly changed: Do you deserve to exist? Across global markets in 2026,…
March 6, 2026, 12:26 AM IST
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The informal economy’s digital shift: Is formalisation finally happening?
February 26, 2026, 3:11 PM IST
India’s informal economy is not being disciplined into formality; it is being translated into data. That distinction matters in 2026. For decades, formalisation meant registration, taxation, and regulatory entry. Today it increasingly means something subtler:…
February 26, 2026, 3:11 PM IST
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The offshore incorporation paradox
February 19, 2026, 11:26 PM IST
Why Indian startups still incorporate abroad — even as some return home India’s startup story has entered a new phase. The earlier narrative was simple: Indian founders-built companies at home and incorporated abroad. The new…
February 19, 2026, 11:26 PM IST
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Every crisis is now a governance crisis — markets are just the messenger
February 12, 2026, 3:41 PM IST
Early 2026 has made one thing unmistakably clear: markets are no longer reacting to economic surprises alone. They are pricing institutional uncertainty in real time. US equity benchmarks logged one of their most bruising sessions…
February 12, 2026, 3:41 PM IST
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From systems head to risk custodian: The CIO’s new role in enterprise governance
February 5, 2026, 3:26 PM IST
The moment a board stops asking “what failed” and starts asking “why this was allowed to exist,” the CIO’s job changes forever. This shift rarely arrives with drama. There is no formal vote. No revised…
February 5, 2026, 3:26 PM IST
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India’s quiet shift from tax collection to tax-behaviour engineering
January 29, 2026, 3:34 PM IST
For a long time, India’s tax state was proudly muscular: audits, notices, searches, appeals — the visible instruments of coercion and compliance. Over the past three years that posture hasn’t been abandoned so much as…
January 29, 2026, 3:34 PM IST
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Data is the new income — but who taxes it?
January 22, 2026, 4:17 PM IST
When the asset being traded is human attention, behavioural profiles, algorithmic insights and predictive monetisation, the old tax rules — tethered to territory and physical presence — begin to crumble like chalk on blackboard. The…
January 22, 2026, 4:17 PM IST
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The new treaty is a patent
January 15, 2026, 3:25 PM IST
Trade blocs used to be built on ports, pipelines, and tariff schedules. In January 2026, the real borders are quieter: royalty rates, injunction risk, export classifications, cloud access rules, procurement eligibility, and the contractual right…
January 15, 2026, 3:25 PM IST
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When words move markets
January 8, 2026, 3:03 PM IST
Markets no longer wait for decisions—they move on sentences. In today’s economy, the most powerful trades are often executed before a policy exists, before a bill is drafted, sometimes even before a regulator has finished…
January 8, 2026, 3:03 PM IST
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Rethinking inclusive capital— Holding value where scale is human
January 1, 2026, 9:55 PM IST
When financial inclusion is discussed at scale, the rhetoric almost always stops at the gateway: access to credit, bank accounts and digital payments. Yet true inclusion in capital markets means moving beyond transactional access to…
January 1, 2026, 9:55 PM IST
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Christmas filings and corporate amnesia
December 25, 2025, 10:05 PM IST
December still tempts companies into a familiar illusion: file everything on time and you’re safe. In 2025, that belief is no longer naïve—it is risky. Yes, the MCA offered relief. AOC-4 and MGT-7/MGT-7A for FY…
December 25, 2025, 10:05 PM IST
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Are human teachers still irreplaceable?
December 17, 2025, 9:14 PM IST
As 2025 draws to a close, classrooms around the world stand at a crossroads: advanced artificial intelligence systems are rapidly entering not just the fringes of education, but its core, prompting deep rethinking of the…
December 17, 2025, 9:14 PM IST
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