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Ten years ago, a mob dragged Mohd Akhlaq out of his Dadri home and lynched him. Justice moves tortuously slowly in India. So, that his killers still haven’t been convicted barely raises eyebrows. But even by our shabby standards, it defies belief that the state has now decided to withdraw the charges against all the…

All perked up that three companies got a green signal to fly passenger planes? It’s great news, sure, but it’s a long road to seeing those planes fly – NOCs are perhaps the easiest step in the highly complex people-heavy business. Cargo is that much more stable, growing, and the segment that often rescues the…

MGNREGA – India’s employment guarantee scheme – is no more. GOI scrapped it last week and replaced it with another tongue-twister acronym: VB-G RAM G. MGNREGA had many problems and the new scheme has left them largely unaddressed. MGNREGA penetration was lowest in the poorest states (Bihar and UP) that also generate the most migrants….

Since the advent of the American nation in the aftermath of the American war of independence, America has historically been following the Monroe Doctrine. Monroe Doctrine is a heady proclamation that the regions and nations west of the Atlantic belong to an undeclared sphere of influence owned by the United States of America. US along…

No one can deny Trump’s first year of his second coming was a shocker. Who would have thought he could demolish, destroy and dismantle everything at warp speed? Expect Project Break-(It)-Down to continue alongside Project BreakUp – with old friends. Trump will remain a street-fighting man without filters, and, interventions to implant any filter will…

O come all ye carols, freshened and updated,O come ye, O co-ome ye, to E-rra-tica! O Come along and sing them.Out of tune or harmonised O sing them. Or hum-um them, But don’t ser-mon-ise. Hark, the estate agent singsPromising such wondrous things.Grecian name and addons pl-ush Commode with Italian flush. Why not buy two flats…

What to tell you! The other day we are visiting furniture shop, and we are seeing one big fat chair in living room section and I am asking salesman, what is that anna and he is saying oh maydam, it is recliner chair, very comfortable and perfect for relaxing. The mister is slowly sitting in…

A few days ago, I wrote about the Meesho IPO in India — a company I have known since 2020 — and why its public-market debut signaled a broader shift in how global investors are valuing growth, profitability, and governance. The response to that article, combined with the time I spent across Riyadh, Abu Dhabi,…

India’s cloud is not only virtual — it is increasingly physical, resource-intensive and expanding at an extraordinary pace. As digital adoption deepens, artificial intelligence scales, and businesses shift relentlessly to cloud-based operations, the country is experiencing a wave of hyperscale and colocation data-centre construction unlike anything seen before. These facilities have quietly become the invisible…

Hello and welcome to another edition of the Weekly Vine. This week, we take a look at MAGA’s Carthage moment, explain The Odyssey for beginners, decode the 9/11 for sigma males, and finally examine how Dhurandhar reinvented a classic qawwali. MAGA’s Carthage moment Sallust, Julius Caesar’s protégé, argued in Bellum Catilinae that the downfall of the Roman Empire was inevitable after…