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Market Reckoning

The Indian middle class has witnessed a financial revolution in recent years. Encouraged by a booming stock market, low-cost digital platforms, and aggressive financial influencers, millions of households have moved their savings from traditional bank deposits to equities.

Tariff Chaos

The recent back-and-forth on tariffs imposed by the US on Canadian and Mexican goods underscores the unpredictability of President Donald Trump’s trade policies.

Curse of Capitalism

Capitalism, the ‘saviour of the free world,’ was touted as an economic paradigm that incentivised effort, encouraged barter and most crucially, brought power back into the deserving hands of the masses of regular, hard-working people.

Can Nato remain relevant?

The ongoing dilemma surrounding Nato’s expanding portfolio of tasks has intensified under the Trump 2.0 administration which increasingly exposes an inner tension regarding the financial burdens associated with the alliance.

Cross-currents

The on-going conflict between Israel and Hamas has reached a critical point, one marked by deep national divisions and a growing public outcry.

Ecological migrants~II

Since the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), a non-governmental organisation based in Geneva, started collating data on persons displaced by disasters in 2018, this set of the population has been increasing.

Learn to cope with airport snarls

Ten years ago I wrote a book titled “The End of Airports” about how digital technologies and commercial air travel were on a collision course.

The Modi Surplus

Has the Modi government lifted India’s economic fortunes during its ten years in office? We know that India has become the fifth largest economy.

Manufacturing Dip

India’s manufacturing sector, a key pillar of the nation’s economic growth, is showing signs of a slowdown, raising concerns about the trajectory of the broader economy.