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The 230-kilometer Kargil-Zanskar Road in frontier Ladakh, is being widened (Ministry of Surface Transport)

Infrastructural leap will transform India for generations to enjoy its gains

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India’s UPI transactions account for 86 percent of GDP

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India at 77 years: We have Miles to go before we sleep

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Unifying power of FIFA World Cup in a fragmented world

Rajeev Narayan The world seldom pauses anymore. Wars rage across continents. Trade tensions disrupt economies. Political polarisation fractures societies. Online media showcases outrage and division every minute. Each new day brings in its tail fresh reasons for anxiety, uncertainty and distrust. Yet, every four years, a remarkable event arrives and cuts out the noise. The FIFA World Cup does not merely attract attention; it commands it. F...

Indian economy is too strong to be rattled by seasonal storms

Rajeev Narayan There are moments in the life of every rising nation when noise threatens to overwhelm perspective. Markets fall. Currencies weaken. Headlines darken. Commentators predict collapse. Social media amplifies anxiety. Suddenly, a slowdown becomes a crisis, and a correction becomes a catastrophe. In the process, a narrative of decline can take hold, often moving faster than the underlying facts themselves. India finds itself ...

"AI-Generated fake news in India: A wake-up call for AI safety and ethics

Rajeev Narayan India recently woke up one morning to discover that an AI-generated fake video of a prominent political leader had gone viral before sunrise, spread across crores of screens, weaponised by anonymous accounts and consumed as truth. The clip was fabricated. The outrage was real. People took to the streets, forcing traffic to a standstill. Government vehicles and machinery were vandalised. Hundreds were injured and hospitalised...

The Melodi moment in Rome carried heavy geopolitical messaging

Rajeev Narayan This week, the world watched a humble toffee become geopolitics. When Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni with a packet of India’s iconic Melody candies during his visit to Rome, social media erupted instantly. Memes flooded timelines. The now-popular ‘Melodi’ moniker – the Internet’s fusion of Melonyi and Modi – suddenly acquired a...

A war in West Asia and a golden pause in India

Rajeev Narayan There are moments in a nation’s journey when economics ceases to be the preserve of policymakers and enters everyday life. Not through taxation or regulation, but through collective choices – what citizens buy, consume, import and conserve. Or postpone buying in the national interest. We debate this aspect today, a week after Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged Indians to avoid excessive gold purchases, limit non-...

India is writing rules of new world order based on non-alignment

Rajeev Narayan India is no longer navigating the global order; It is rewriting its rules. For long, New Delhi’s foreign policy was caricatured as hesitant, overly cautious and trapped in the moral fog of Cold War-era non-alignment. Western capitals often viewed India as a fence-sitting power – unwilling to commit, reluctant to offend and attempting diplomatic yoga between rival blocs. Today, that same ambiguity is beginning...

Three likely scenarios emerging from the West Asia crisis

Rajeev Narayan At its narrowest, the Strait of Hormuz is barely 34 kilometres wide. Yet through this slender corridor flows a fifth of the world’s oil, a volume so vast that even a temporary disruption can send shockwaves across the globe. Today, as tensions involving the United States, Israel, and Iran oscillate between escalation and restraint, the strait has become more than a geographic feature. It has turned into a barometer of ...

Iran's unprecedented toll on Hormuz passage will impact oil prices

Rajeev Narayan Wars often turn on their head and go against the pre-conceived outcome, perhaps because they are scripted in assumptions but remembered for the surprises they throw up. The US-Israel conflict with Iran, raging since late February with the expectation of a quick outcome in favour of the United States, is a testament to this dictum, having birthed a complex oil hiccup. Even as diplomatic talks continue and falter in equal meas...

How India can deal with energy crisis caused by West Asia Crisis

Rajeev Narayan The world has seen oil shocks before. But few in recent memory have travelled as quickly from distant battlefields to our kitchens and petrol stations. It is a gathering storm. The current crisis began far from India’s shores, with escalating military confrontation in West Asia between the United States-Israel axis and Iran. The consequences have been immediate. Iran’s threats and on-ground attacks on shippi...

India’s-EU landmark FTA to spur growth, jobs, increase New Delhi's relevance

Rajeev Narayan Typically, history announces itself quietly, but January 27 will be remembered as the day when India decisively altered its economic trajectory. For, on this date in 2026, India and the European Union sealed what Prime Minister Narendra Modi described as the “Mother of All Deals”, the single-largest Free Trade Agreement (FTA) India has ever concluded. Spanning 27 European nations and valued at US $213 billion, th...

India’s destiny calls: Empower, lead & build

Rajeev Narayan/ New Delhi At a pivotal moment, NSA Ajit Doval has called upon the youth to help transform the nation’s historical memory into leadership, strength and national resurgence During moments of national churn, history does not whisper. It confronts. At the Viksit Bharat Young Leaders’ Dialogue, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval chose precisely such a moment to speak to India’s youth, not with comforting ...

In 2026, AI-integration with work will become a norm

Rajeev Narayan Kolhapur, Maharashtra: At a small leather workshop, hands still cut, stitch and polish shoes the way they have for decades. In this ‘factory’, a young apprentice scrolls through his phone, not scouring for entertainment, but checking prices on WhatsApp, tracking an online order routed through a local reseller and watching a short video on how to improve finishing techniques to attract urban buyers. Beng...

Will AI continue to eat away jobs in 2026

Rajeev Narayan Kolhapur, Maharashtra: At a small leather workshop, hands still cut, stitch and polish shoes the way they have for decades. In this ‘factory’, a young apprentice scrolls through his phone, not scouring for entertainment, but checking prices on WhatsApp, tracking an online order routed through a local reseller and watching a short video on how to improve finishing techniques to attract urban buyers. Beng...

India takes giant step to boost nuclear energy

Rajeev Narayan Rajeev Narayan On a recent winter evening in Delhi, far from the glare of protest or polemic, India altered the grammar of its energy future. With a legislation allowing private participation in the long-guarded civil nuclear power sector, Parliament signalled not rupture but readiness…Readiness to rethink how India will power itself through some very demanding decades ahead. There were no dramatic speeches invoki...

iphone and Thar are icons of aspirational India

Rajeev Narayan The middle of the night, outside an Apple store, is not typically associated with India’s shopping culture. Yet, hundreds of young professionals clad in hoodies and clutching coffee cups brave the Delhi or Mumbai weather gods to become the first to claim a new iPhone—they have become a new and recurring Indian tableau. A decade ago, queuing overnight for an iPhone was the stuff of Western pop culture. Today, it i...

SEBI alert against digital on investments is a wake up call

Rajeev Narayan When India’s markets watchdog, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), recently issued a public caution on digital gold, it was done without drama. There was no fiery press conference, no parliamentary echo, no market tantrum. Just a carefully-worded investor alert, pointing to risks in app-driven gold purchases that promise fractional ownership, instant liquidity and dematerialised storage. Yet, in its silence ...

Regulating India’s Gold Rush

Rajeev Narayan When India’s markets watchdog, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), recently issued a public caution on digital gold, it was done without drama. There was no fiery press conference, no parliamentary echo, no market tantrum. Just a carefully-worded investor alert, pointing to risks in app-driven gold purchases that promise fractional ownership, instant liquidity and dematerialised storage. Yet, in its silence ...

India's UPI has ushered in a quiet revolution

Rajeev Narayan India once ran on cash. Today it runs on QR codes, mobile screens and a payments network that moves money faster than most countries move policy. The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has not merely digitised transactions. It has altered financial physics, rerouting money with minimal friction, maximum reach and a simplicity that hides its engineering complexity. UPI’s story is no longer about disruption; it ...

India's UPI has ushered in a quiet revolution

Rajeev Narayan India once ran on cash. Today it runs on QR codes, mobile screens and a payments network that moves money faster than most countries move policy. The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has not merely digitised transactions. It has altered financial physics, rerouting money with minimal friction, maximum reach and a simplicity that hides its engineering complexity. UPI’s story is no longer about disruption; it ...

Diwali is the reason why global headwinds can't touch Indian economy

Rajeev Narayan Come October and November, India undergoes a dramatic transformation. Streets blaze with lights, homes gleam with fresh paint, markets overflow with boisterous buyers, and the economy hums with new energy. Diwali, the festival of lights, is more than just a cultural anchor; it is a significant economic catalyst. Each year, the weeks leading up to Diwali generate a quarter of the nation’s annual retail sales, making thi...

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