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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 to iterate. IPR has stopped being the legal “afterword” to innovation and become the front-page instrument of economic security. Not…

किया करते हो तुम दिन-रात क्यों , किस बात की चिंता? तेरे स्वामी को रहती है तेरे हर बात की चिंता। These simple yet profoundly consoling lines of a popular bhajan  encapsulate a philosophy that saints, mystics, and seekers across ages have tried to explain in countless ways : the philosophy of Surrender. At its…

Phones to cars, software is the key product differentiator now. India should focus on taking the lead in this space Today, software is more important than ever. It runs our phones, cars, and even home devices. Years ago, someone said “software is eating the world,” and now that feels very true. We use apps for…

If India can host the world with perfection once, why does it fail so consistently when it comes to sport? The Indian Open Badminton — one of the premier events on the global badminton calendar — is shaming India for the second year in a row. Last year, the side stadium adjacent to the main…

Zoos promise animals good care in exchange for captivity. But what if what they dish out is torture?  Our relationship with animals is not simple. Long ago, a writer named Montaigne said that animals may think humans are strange or cruel, just like we sometimes think about them. Some jackals that escaped from the Delhi…

By Ullhas Pagey Eric Berne, a Canadian psychiatrist, unveiled a sacred triad of ego states: Parent, Adult, and Child as portals to our scripted destinies. In the esoteric extensions of Transactional Analysis – which Berne created – these ego states crystallise into three archetypal concepts of life: the Taught, Felt, and Thought. This triune progression…

Amid all the flak aviation regulator DGCA has drawn for its handling of last month’s IndiGo crisis, the role of another regulator – Competition Commission of India – has gone relatively unnoticed.CCI was set up to promote and sustain competition in markets, and is tasked with curbing anti-competitive practices across sectors. It is CCI’s job…

In India, time is a nebulous concept that is elastic and can bend like monsoon rubber, stretched endlessly without a whisper of a protest. Yet, here we are, strangely stuck in a national debate over grocery deliveries in 10 minutes. The Union labour minister has quietly asked quick commerce companies to move away from the…

Lessons for the philistine neta Opening the Art of India exhibition in New Delhi last Friday, lawyer-MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi confessed that the more he examined his credentials for this task, ‘the more unqualified and without locus I found myself’. He then covered up his inadequacy with the fig leaf that ‘perhaps my outsider status…

Phones to cars, software is the key product differentiator now. India should focus on taking the lead in this space It’s 15 years since venture capitalist Marc Andreessen said, “software is eating the world”, and he couldn’t have been more right. We have an app for everything now – multiple apps actually. So, in a…