Monthly Archives: October 2025

The 10-Minute Lie: How India’s Fast Delivery Apps Built a Billion-Dollar Empire on Broken Backs

- - Advice, Business

Welcome to modern India — where groceries arrive faster than an ambulance, but humanity moves slower than a traffic jam. Blinkit, Zepto, Swiggy Instamart — and the once-hyped Dunzo — built their billion-dollar empires on a dangerous promise: “10-minute delivery.” It sounded futuristic. But behind the shiny app icons lies...

The Great Indian Startup Meltdown: 11,223 Startups Shut Down in 2025 — The Brutal Truth Nobody Wants to Hear

Let’s face it — India’s startup dream in 2025 looks more like a hangover than a celebration. According to Tracxn data shared with Financial Express, 11,223 startups shut down this year, a 30% jump from 8,649 closures in 2024. That’s not just a few bad apples — that’s a system...

Karma: The Debt You Can’t Default On — And the One You Never Knew You Owe

🕉️ (An explosive Nishani.in thought piece) ⚖️ The Illusion of “Personal” Karma We’ve all been taught the simplified version — “What goes around comes around.” Do good, and life rewards you. Do bad, and life slaps you. Neat theory. But dangerously incomplete. Because karma isn’t a solo journey. It’s a shared...

The Adani Empire: How One Man’s Rise Mirrors India’s Silent Fall

There’s power. There’s money. And then, there’s Adani — where power meets money. India’s biggest mystery isn’t who’s winning elections. It’s who’s winning India itself. The ₹33,000 Crore Question When a foreign newspaper revealed that the Indian government allegedly wanted LIC — our own Life Insurance Corporation — to invest...