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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...

Lights, gold, cars - Diwali is the reason global headwinds don'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...

India is swimming smoothly against Trump's tariff tide

Rajeev Narayan With intent to beat back economic fires before they get kindled, the Government is stepping in with a slew of measures to revitalise growth and drive up domestic demand. While the most visible and talked-about move has been the recent rationalisation of the GST structure, other strategic initiatives have been launched and have been extremely effective, such as the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme launched in 2021. To...

Swimming against Trump's tariff tide

Rajeev Narayan With intent to beat back economic fires before they get kindled, the Government is stepping in with a slew of measures to revitalise growth and drive up domestic demand. While the most visible and talked-about move has been the recent rationalisation of the GST structure, other strategic initiatives have been launched and have been extremely effective, such as the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme launched in 2021. To...

Is it the end of the American Dream for Indians

Rajeev Narayan When the US government announced a one-time surcharge of $100,000 on new H-1B visa petitions from September 21, many Indians in the United States felt a long-dormant tremor suddenly cracking open the ground beneath them. The move has been presented as a reform, but for the Diaspora, it feels like a rupture in trust. After decades of building lives, contributing to American innovation and raising children who straddle two...

Indian manufacturing pivot steps in to save the day

Rajeev Narayan A year into its third term, Modi 3.0 has outlined strategic plans to bolster manufacturing, a saviour of sorts for the Indian economy at a time when external pulls and the US policy shifts are chaining the services sector down. Within manufacturing, the Production-Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme has become the juggernaut, with “sustainable, high-tech and value-driven” initiatives joining the ranks. The end-goa...

Indian manufacturing pivot steps in to save the day

Rajeev Narayan A year into its third term, Modi 3.0 has outlined strategic plans to bolster manufacturing, a saviour of sorts for the Indian economy at a time when external pulls and the US policy shifts are chaining the services sector down. Within manufacturing, the Production-Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme has become the juggernaut, with “sustainable, high-tech and value-driven” initiatives joining the ranks. The end-goa...

Seven Sisters lead India's high-end online shopping spree

Rajeev Narayan Delhiites might brag about their designer showrooms and Mumbaikars their boutique-lined streets, but when it comes to high-end online shopping, the metros are being upstaged. The real action is in the misty hills of Nagaland, Mizoram, Manipur, and Meghalaya, where India’s ‘faraway’ shoppers are clicking their way to a retail revolution. From serums to sneakers, the Seven Sisters in India’s North-E...

Seven Sisters fuel the high-end online shopping spree

Rajeev Narayan Delhiites might brag about their designer showrooms and Mumbaikars their boutique-lined streets, but when it comes to high-end online shopping, the metros are being upstaged. The real action is in the misty hills of Nagaland, Mizoram, Manipur, and Meghalaya, where India’s ‘faraway’ shoppers are clicking their way to a retail revolution. From serums to sneakers, the Seven Sisters in India’s North-E...

US tariffs boomerang and hit the American medicine cabinets

Rajeev Narayan Barely weeks after Washington imposed a 25-per cent tariff on Indian imports—doubling it to 50 per cent penalty over New Delhi’s crude Russian oil purchases—the blowback is being felt not in India but in America’s pharmacies. The wheel has turned, and the sharp edge is cutting US patients. Shelves are thinning, shortages are mounting and the medicines that remain are being sold at inflated mark-ups. T...

India is the only stable country in South Asia

Rajeev Narayan South Asia’s political landscape resembles a furiously-revolving stage, with leaders getting ousted, systems overturned and crises erupting with clockwork regularity. India, often the reluctant anchor in this tempestuous theatre, finds itself balancing stability at home against chaos abroad. And hovering over it all is China—once adversary, now being firmly recast as formidable and returning partner. Nepal re...

FMCG firms are focusing on Bharat to boost sales

Rajeev Narayan An interesting trend is being observed in India’s FMCG camp today—with sales slipping in urban markets, companies are increasingly shifting focus to smaller cities and rural India, where demand still remains strong. That’s because urban middle-class spending has buckled, with ‘real’ food inflation crossing the 10-per cent mark. Official figures paint a rosy picture, claiming a year-on-year retai...

Investment options are low, risky, and future projections fuzzy

Rajeev Narayan Here’s a challenge for you. Try looking at today’s available investment options from all possible angles and select one that is not scary, slippery, or uninspiring. After your effort, you will find out that the returns are too low to inspire, or the risk quotient so high that it scares away even the most daring, or future projections so fuzzy that it is beyond comprehension for most of India’s middle-class ...

Investment options are low, risky, and future projections fuzzy

Rajeev Narayan Here’s a challenge for you. Try looking at today’s available investment options from all possible angles and select one that is not scary, slippery, or uninspiring. After your effort, you will find out that the returns are too low to inspire, or the risk quotient so high that it scares away even the most daring, or future projections so fuzzy that it is beyond comprehension for most of India’s middle-class ...

India faces Hobson’s choice in dealing with the US on Tariffs

Rajeev Narayan Much like the Devil’s Alternative, Hobson’s choice was born under duress. It came into being in the 17th century, when Thomas Hobson, a Cambridge carrier who hired out horses, offered customers only one choice: take the horse closest to the stable door, or none at all. Nearly 300 years later, India faces a similarly daunting decision in its dealings with a tariff-hungry United States. Should it jump astride a wil...

Why the Skies are raining death

Rajeev Narayan Last week, I took my monthly drive into India’s mountain roads, my sanctuary of peace, serenity, and solace. I had to return halfway as my tranquil mountains were spitting at me, as the greed of humans had turned them into a macabre theatre of destruction, disaster, and despair. All around, I could see mindless deforestation, haphazard development, and collusion. The writing is loud and clear—tired of being carve...

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