Business

2021's record funding flood turned into 2023-2025's reckoning: capital dried up and unit economics became the test. What separated survivors from failures.

India's new middle class buys premium phones while hunting discount deals — aspiration mediated by anxiety in an economy that offers no guarantees.

The rupee stays stubbornly domestic: the RBI's rupee-settlement push with partners is real but incremental, and its share of global payments remains below 2%.

40% of global maritime commerce and 35% of seaborne oil transit the Indian Ocean. How China, the US, and India are contesting its future.

India's brain drain is shifting: since 2015, IIT graduates choose Indian startups over US firms and founders return to build. The reversal isn't complete.

The 2023 Hindenburg report halved Adani's market cap in weeks. It exposed how family-controlled conglomerates clash with investor demands for transparency.

$125 billion a year — more than FDI, from the Gulf to New Jersey. India's remittances flow invisibly through acts of obligation, love, and calculation.

Modi's third term opened with consolidation, not revolution: 7% growth, PLI expansion, strong FDI — and the same unresolved jobs crisis.

$10 billion for chip fabs, PLI for batteries: the hardware push is real — but fabs need decades, batteries need scale, assembly is only the first step.

500 GW of renewables by 2030: the math says ~50 GW a year — double the current pace. Grid integration, Chinese supply chains, and battery storage are the

India skipped the Tesla script: it's electrifying from the bottom up — two-wheelers and auto-rickshaws first. The economics explain everything.

UPI processes more transactions than any payment system on Earth — a public utility, not a private platform. Why the world is studying it.

India went from the world's biggest arms importer to exporting over $2.5 billion a year. The rise of its defence industry — and how internal demand built it.

Indian startups are expanding into Southeast Asia — Razorpay in Malaysia, Ola in the UK and Australia, Freshworks on Nasdaq. Where the advantage is real.

From Fabindia's heritage craft to Dior's global status symbols: how India's wealthy stopped buying rootedness and started buying the same luxury vocabulary

India produces record harvests and exports while millions of farmers stay in debt and distress. The contradiction at the heart of Indian agriculture.

Trump 2.0 means tariffs, visa risk, and transactional diplomacy for India. The opportunity: China+1 supply chains. The risk: IT services and H-1B access

India is spending $10 billion to build chip fabs and break Taiwan's grip on semiconductors. The ambition is real; the power grids, supply chains, and

India's industrial map centered on Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore. The Chennai-Kochi corridor is emerging as South India's counterweight — ports, labor, arithmetic.