Flying home
India can’t just be an assembler plus component maker of military platforms. Invest in R&D for true indigenisation In what is being played as a big leap for indigenous defence production, Modi and...
View ArticleMaking planes in India: What’s next?
India is doing something cool – it’s starting to make its own military airplanes! Recently, India teamed up with Spain to build C-295 airplanes in a new Tata Aircraft Complex. Some of these planes will...
View ArticleDial up the trust
Fear of the state makes people fall for ‘digital arrest’ fraud. Police must solve crimes quickly Now that Modi has spoken about the menace of the latest big-ticket cyberfraud, digital arrests,...
View ArticleStay safe from cyber tricks!
There’s a sneaky scam happening online that’s fooling people into thinking they’re in big trouble with the police! Here’s how it works: someone calls pretending to be from the police and accuses the...
View ArticleWelcome to Ayodhya, a place of eternal peace
The festival of Deepavali reflects the love, strong character, and dignity embodied by Ram and Sita. It is a powerful testament to the triumph of truth over falsehood. That is why, even after thousands...
View ArticleMore migrants, not kids
Last week, Andhra CM Chandrababu Naidu urged couples to have more children to fight the burden of an ageing population in the state. The next day, his counterpart Tamil Nadu CM Stalin invoked a Tamil...
View ArticleShowing Up At That Party When You’d Rather Stay Home
The party vibe has begun and continues well into the next year. With the Diwali celebrations started, we’ve all faced that moment: an invitation to a party, gathering, or event stares back at you while...
View ArticleWayanad: The Easier Of Priyanka Gandhi’s Tests
She is on a two-day campaign trail in Wayanad, a seat vacated by her brother. This is the first election Priyanka Gandhi will be contesting. After a long political incubation, honing her campaigning...
View ArticleHow a right is wronged: Understanding privacy in India
In India, the right to privacy is something the government doesn’t always protect as it should. Privacy means that your personal information, like what’s on your phone or computer, should stay private...
View ArticleUnraveling the threads of justice: The quest for clarity in Section 61 of the...
Section 61 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) imposes a stringent timeline for appeals, allowing only 30 days for an aggrieved party to challenge a National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) order...
View ArticleAs Digital India gets stronger, credit ecosystem to get major impetus
With the launch of ULI (Unified Lending Interface), the RBI has taken another defining step towards strengthening our already gold class Digital Public Infrastructure, which is steadily bringing...
View ArticleThe Waqf cauldron – Enough is enough
The Waqf cauldron is boiling once again with AIUDF Chief Badruddin Ajmal claiming that in Delhi, the Indian Parliament is built on Waqf land as is the entire stretch from Vasant Vihar to IGI airport....
View ArticleHow a right is wronged
Citizens’ privacy is not an issue that bothers the Indian state overmuch. Violation is rampant Puttaswamy’s passing is a reminder of his landmark battle that led to a Supreme Court ruling making right...
View ArticleHow a right is wronged: Understanding privacy in India
In India, the right to privacy is something the government doesn’t always protect as it should. Privacy means that your personal information, like what’s on your phone or computer, should stay private...
View ArticleExtreme prejudice
When it comes to ‘murder for hire’, nothing beats Washington’s track record vis-à-vis Fidel Castro US ambassador to India said that while Washington accepts the conduct of the probe into the so-called...
View ArticleAIming for gold
On the evolution India must undergo to advance from tech’s back-office to front-office Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is not alone in saying a new industrial revolution is now afoot. India has been a...
View ArticleAiming for gold: India’s tech future
India is at a crossroads in technology, and it needs to make some big changes to move from being just a helper in tech (the back-office) to being a leader (the front-office). Jensen Huang, the...
View ArticleThe Weekly Vine Edition 16: Smoke in the Air, Garbage Wars in America, and...
Hello and welcome to the 16th edition of The Weekly Vine, arriving a day before Diwali: the OG Star Wars festival where light triumphed over darkness to bring balance to the Force. It’s a lovely...
View ArticleDusshera in a new avataar; Raavan looks unusually pale and small!
The saturnine effigy of ‘Raavan’ stands small and scuzzy. It no longer looks able-boiled as was years before and stands at one corner conspicuously mocked by the children of its grotesqueness; in...
View ArticleThe Diwali ritual: A comedy of errors
4:30 a.m. — “Meera, wake up. The neighbours saw me doing the ritual!” embarrassed Raghu nudged his wife, who had drifted to sleep just as she completed the Diwali diya ritual. She had been keeping...
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