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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.

Updated : Aug 13, 2025

Building Rural India: Surendranath Tripathi

When we talk of Viksit Bharat, we also have to focus on Building Rural India's - our BRI - a crucial part of the country.

Updated : Aug 13, 2025

Beyond Trade Deals: Ajay Srivastava

To unlock export potential, the government will have to undertake domestic reforms that make India's manufacturing and services competitive, cut costs, and streamline logistics.