Exported Indian
Thanks to our diaspora, we are the biggest remittance economy in the world Instead of ringing up sales on their cash registers exporters around the world, including in India, are wringing their hands...
View ArticleRaving no more
SC ruling on TN guv applies to guvs in all oppn-ruled states. It removes a constitutional ambiguity Governors in opposition-run states can’t be a law unto themselves. SC made this abundantly clear with...
View ArticleScience in the crossfire: How US tariffs threaten India’s research future
The United States is preparing to impose new tariffs on a range of Indian exports— pharmaceutical ingredients, specialty chemicals, electronics, and precision instruments—as part of its evolving trade...
View ArticleDown the rabbit hole of Triggers
Most of you have probably heard about Pavlov and his dogs. It was one of the first experiments in making any living thing react in a certain way. For those unfamiliar with this instance, here...
View ArticleDegrees of Humour: Celsius rising
It’s 34 today, ‘feels like 41’. Severe weather alert. Excessive heat. That’s the day’s Celsius reading in Mumbai from Google weather, not the AI app that face reads your age. Sweltering. If weather was...
View ArticleWhy isn’t Indian art and culture global like anime and K-Pop?
Let’s start with a simple question: how many of us grew up watching Doraemon, Shinchan, Dragon Ball Z, and Naruto? We didn’t understand anything about Japanese culture, but we still sat glued to the...
View ArticleIndia’s strategic manoeuvres in Southeast Asia: Bimstec Summit and elevation...
In a period of geostrategic uncertainties, India is steadily making moves to strengthen its ties with Southeast Asian countries. The guiding principles are “Neighbourhood First,” “Act East Asia” and...
View ArticleRising husband murders in 2025: A grim reality India can’t ignore
2025 has unveiled a chilling trend – an alarming rise in brutal husband murders, often orchestrated by wives and their lovers. These may be isolated incidents but the pattern echoes a deeper societal...
View ArticleAnekantvad, ahimsa, and roots of modern pluralism
By Vipul Anekant It is crucial to reflect on how the contemporary socio-economic systems, political ideologies, and scientific theories that dominate our discourse today can be traced back to profound...
View ArticleWhy the guvs were off & how the game got changed
A Supreme Court bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and R Mahadevan gave a pivotal judgment yesterday in State of Tamil Nadu vs The Governor of Tamil Nadu – a governor cannot have absolute veto or...
View ArticleThe Weekly Vine Edition 37: The deported, start-up Mahabharata, and the Bihar...
Hello and welcome to another edition of the Weekly Vine. I was faced with a modern iteration of Karna’s chariot-stuck-in-the-ground curse, which one likes to call: the app-based transportation curse...
View ArticleFrom zoom to doom: The great Karnataka bike taxi u-turn
Karnataka’s Electric Bike Taxi Scheme, launched in 2021 with a cheerful promise of clean, green, last-mile mobility, has now been quietly towed off the road. What started as an earnest attempt to boost...
View ArticleDear Doctors, there is nothing to gain in making it AI vs doctors
With AI looming on the horizon, one specific group of humans, i.e., doctors do have an interesting or rather existential problem at hand, as they are highly intelligent humans who have invested huge...
View ArticleTrump’s economic blitzkrieg threatens globalization in letter and spirit
It does not require any background to admit that the ‘Make America Great Again’ (MAGA) project of President Donald Trump is a shibboleth to mask the weak American economy. In order to check the high...
View ArticleT-Rex stops & thinks
There’s no denying that US and China are now in a full-blown trade war. Yesterday, the Trump administration tacked on additional tariffs on Chinese imports on top of the “reciprocal tariffs” announced...
View ArticleSomething is rotten in the state of Bengal
It was a familiar scene. Flanked by two national flags, Mamata Banerjee took centre stage doing what Bengal’s politicians have turned into an art form over the last five decades – play victim. Last...
View ArticleHow Jain philosophy illuminates the truth of absence
By Muni Pranamyasagar What is real? What does it mean to ‘know’ something? Is absence also considered a form of truth? Jain philosophy provides deep and nuanced answers to these eternal questions...
View Article125% Vs 84% = Chaos
Why other countries shouldn’t think they will escape the consequences of a US-China trade war With Trump piling on an extra 50% tariff on Chinese exports to US – taking overall tariffs on Chinese goods...
View ArticleMatter of shame
That an upper caste neta ‘purified’ a temple visited by a Dalit neta is shocking, and as BJP knows, politically damaging The idea that untouchability may still be practised in India sounds outrageous....
View ArticlePet grievances
You can bark, but don’t bite There are two kinds of people. Those who love dogs and those who don’t. That’s why Mumbai’s housing societies are currently snarling/wagging their tails over BMC’s plans to...
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