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Updated : Dec 31, 2025

India needs to unlock the hidden potential of millions of women to become a global economic powerhouse by 2047

The Labour Codes will not only unlock the untapped potential of the female workforce but also empower women through increased participation in the economy.

Egg freezing is often misunderstood as a tool used only by women focused on their careers. In truth, it is far broader.

Updated : Dec 29, 2025

Understanding Egg Freezing by Metropolis Healthcare's Ameera Shah

For many, egg freezing is not about delaying motherhood; it is about keeping a door open.

Indian B-schools are thriving in career and alumni outcomes but research and thought leadership remain critical to make a global mark.

Updated : Dec 10, 2025

Towards Global Rankings: Vishal Talwar, COO, Delhi Campus of Southampton University

Indian B-schools are thriving in career and alumni outcomes but research and thought leadership remain critical to make a global mark.

Updated : Dec 10, 2025

Redefining Success: Sapna Popli, Professor of Marketing, IMT Ghaziabad

In a rapidly changing world, institutions need to embrace a more holistic approach, one that recognises learning quality and student well-being.

Updated : Dec 5, 2025

India's top B-schools need to position themselves as global destinations: Abhishek Agrawal, Executive Director, MDRA

India's top B-schools need to position themselves as global destinations by bridging gaps between policy and perception, writes Abhishek Agrawal, Executive Director, MDRA.

Updated : Oct 15, 2025

India's Art Awakening: KNMA Founder & Chairperson Kiran Nadar

By promoting access and art education, we can shape a generation that views art as a bridge between lived realities and possibilities for the future.

Updated : Sep 13, 2025

ICICI Prudential AMC's Nimesh Shah on why telecom, steel, could propel the next phase of earnings growth

Telecom, steel, oil & gas, travel, power, and financial services could propel the next phase of earnings growth.

Updated : Aug 18, 2025

Betting on India's Consumer: Ravi Lambah

The country's long runway of growing affluence and consumption spend, coupled with proliferating digital fluency, establishes structural resilience.

Updated : Aug 18, 2025

Return To The Rich Cub: Prakash Loungani

A secret ingredient may help make India's re-entry a durable one....

Updated : Aug 16, 2025

The future of consumption: Rohit Kumar Singh

By 2047, the real revolution will be that of the Indian consumer. She will emerge as a powerful force shaping markets, ethics, and innovation.

Updated : Aug 16, 2025

Transform rural India: Rajesh Shukla

The future of Bharat is not in preserving its rural past, but in reimagining its economic potential

The world is fast moving towards on-demand mobility, away from private ownership of vehicles. Well before 2047, we can envision electric aircraft plying domestic routes primarily, at about half the present-day fares

Updated : Aug 16, 2025

A revolution in mobility: Satyanarayanan Chakravarthy

The world is fast moving towards on-demand mobility, away from private ownership of vehicles. Well before 2047, we can envision electric aircraft plying domestic routes primarily, at about half the present-day fares.

A redefined, next-generation framework—IBC 2.0—is required.

Updated : Aug 15, 2025

Going from Reform to Reinvention: Manish Aggarwal

While the IBC has successfully fulfilled its foundational purpose, it now needs to evolve to address emerging economic realities and system constraints.

Updated : Aug 14, 2025

India needs a sovereign AI ecosystem: Vivek Raghavan

The case for a sovereign AI ecosystem is not about isolation. It is about control, resilience, and relevance on the global stage.

Sindhu Gangadharan, MD, SAP Labs India; Chairperson, NASSCOM

Updated : Aug 14, 2025

Empowering women, powering tech: Sindhu Gangadharan

To realise the vision of Viksit Bharat, we must ensure that India’s workforce is not only future-ready but also equitably led.

Updated : Aug 14, 2025

A new era for start-ups: Kunal Bahl

With India approaching its centennial in 2047, it is seeing a dawn of the golden era of Indian start-ups

Updated : Aug 14, 2025

A deep tech future: Mani Vembu

While deep-tech will not deliver instant results, it will yield long-term pay-offs that are worth the wait.

Updated : Aug 20, 2025

India’s deep tech moment: Chaitanya Gupta

With the race for dominance in emerging technologies like AI, quantum, defence, and energy, India's RDI investment arrives at a pivotal moment.

India must create a proactive, sector-driven IP governance model.

Updated : Aug 14, 2025

Reengineer India's IPR Framework: Sunil Mani

India must create a proactive, sector-driven IP governance model, converting IP from a defensive shield into a catalyst for industrial transformation.

How scaling MSMEs can power Viksit Bharat

Updated : Aug 14, 2025

Scaling MSMEs for Viksit Bharat: Swapnil Kothari and Dr Rumki Majumdar

Despite a series of reforms in recent years, formalisation of MSMEs has been impacted by large companies maximising market share, trivialising the benefits available to MSMEs.

Updated : Aug 13, 2025

Towards a Less Taxing GST: D.K. Srivastava

India's GST is still an incomplete story, as a large share of sales pertaining to petroleum products, agricultural products, electricity, and real estate remains outside its purview.