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As India rises economically, its food processing sector must move to create global value – transforming farm surplus to innovation, opportunity and competitiveness India stands at a defining economic juncture. As the nation advances toward becoming the world’s third-largest economy, growth can no longer be measured solely in aggregate output. It must increasingly be assessed…
By Sonal Srivastava In Indic epistemological parlance, abhava , absence, is not a mere void. It is a distinct way of examining reality through the lens of nonexistence. Take, for instance, the air inside a pot. When the pot is merely a lump of clay, air inside the pot is absent but only in a…
Imagine if learning a new language didn’t feel like staring at a boring textbook or memorizing a list of verbs that you’ll never use. What if it felt more like hitting “Play” on your favorite song or starting a new level in a video game? Forget the “School” Way Right now, adults spend a lot…
As more Big Names are linked to Epstein, the needle of suspicion moves closer home Shortly after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Randy Andy Andrew, was arrested by the police for his close association with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Gates suddenly quit the AI summit in Delhi where he was scheduled to make…
Last evening, I overheard a couple of seemingly learned men immersed in an avid discussion as I took my daily stroll by the poolside. Their topic, quite to my mind’s delight, was the soul. But the treatment they meted out to it was mindless enough to quickly turn my delight into sheer dismay. The diabolical…
Do elders give good advice? Sometimes. Young’uns need to filter it through their own context When Sam Altman told an auditorium full of IITians that “listening to old people is the biggest mistake young people make,” the applause was only to be expected. He seems to have been referring to traditional career advice in particular….
Child marriage exists in India amid a web of paradoxes, and it is perhaps this very complexity that has allowed the crime to survive and even thrive for centuries. Even as the country has moved onto a war footing to eliminate child marriage by 2030, the journey has remained uphill and deeply challenging. Child marriage…
On 10 February 2026, the ministry of defence quietly placed on its website a draft that may prove to be one of the most consequential reforms in India’s military modernisation journey: the Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP) 2026. At first glance, it appears to streamline categories, tweak indigenous content thresholds, and fast-track trials. But embedded within…
India’s informal economy is not being disciplined into formality; it is being translated into data. That distinction matters in 2026. For decades, formalisation meant registration, taxation, and regulatory entry. Today it increasingly means something subtler: economic activity that leaves a trace. The shift underway is not administrative — it is infrastructural. India is building an…
