Hi, I’m Nishanth Muraleedharan (also known as Nishani)—an IT engineer turned internet entrepreneur with 25+ years in the textile industry. As the Founder & CEO of "DMZ International Imports & Exports" and President & Chairperson of the "Save Handloom Foundation", I’m committed to reviving India’s handloom heritage by empowering artisans through sustainable practices and advanced technologies like Blockchain, AI, AR & VR. I write what I love to read—thought-provoking, purposeful, and rooted in impact. nishani.in is not just a blog — it's a mark, a sign, a symbol, an impression of the naked truth. Like what you read? Buy me a chai and keep the ideas brewing. ☕💭 For advertising on any of our platforms, WhatsApp me on : +91-91-0950-0950 or email me @ support@dmzinternational.com
It’s May 1, 2026 — Labour Day — and the world’s workers just received the cruelest gift: a war they didn’t start, a strait they can’t sail through, and a gas cylinder that costs as much as a weekend getaway. The War Nobody Wanted, Fought By Everyone Who Could Afford...
Imagine you send a really smart robot to the market with your wallet. You don’t tell it what to buy. You just tell it what you need — “get me the best groceries for the week under ₹2,000.” The robot walks in, compares prices, picks the freshest vegetables, splits the...
One hour of rain. That’s all it took. Not a cyclone. Not a week-long flood. Just about 110 mm of rain in barely an hour—and India’s so-called “Silicon Valley” collapsed like a badly built illusion. Roads turned into rivers. Electricity failed. Walls collapsed. Lives were lost. And as always… the...
A developed country is not where the poor have cars. It is where the rich use public transport. That one line exposes everything wrong with how India measures its own progress. What Actual Rich Countries Look Like The Prime Minister of the Netherlands cycles to parliament. Not for a photo-op....
There is a moment in every industrial revolution when the shift stops feeling theoretical. The power loom made handloom weavers redundant. Ford’s assembly line turned craftsmen into button-pushers. ATMs quietly hollowed out bank teller departments. We are living in that moment again. Except this time, it isn’t a machine replacing...
Seven exit polls. Five states. One union territory. Wildly conflicting numbers — and one clear picture beneath the noise. Here is my read, my call, and why. Counting begins tomorrow, Monday morning. Before the spectacle of results day — the anchors, the colour-coded maps, the shouting panels — let me...
The Indian government just issued a banking sector alert over an AI that hasn’t even been publicly released. That should tell you everything. The Alarm Has Been Sounded Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman chaired a high-level meeting with banks and regulators and delivered an unusually stark warning: Anthropic’s unreleased AI model,...
The Psychology of WhatsApp: Your Personality Is Already on Read There’s a silent truth sitting inside your phone right now. Not in your photos, not in your bank apps — but inside WhatsApp. It’s not just a messaging app anymore. It’s a behavioral lab. A personality detector. A social mirror...
🔥 There was a time when summer in India meant sweating through May and waiting for the monsoon like a festival. That timeline is gone. Now, April itself feels like peak summer, and May is becoming something else entirely—something harsher, more relentless, less forgiving. This isn’t a bad year. This is...
The uncomfortable truth about independence, expertise, and what it actually takes to survive — and thrive — on your own. By Nishani | nishani.in | Entrepreneurship & Strategy Open LinkedIn on any given Monday morning and the pattern is impossible to miss. A former colleague has just announced she’s “excited...
