Category "Business"

Unlimited Health Insurance: Is Acko Rewriting the Rules or Just Rebranding Them?

Health insurance in India has always been sold with fear. “₹5 lakh cover.” “₹10 lakh cover.” “Hope you don’t fall sick beyond that.” Then Acko walked in and casually said: “Unlimited.” No cap. No ceiling. No room rent limit. Even the costliest hospital suite? Covered. That’s when people paused and...

₹21 Lakhs for a Fresher: Progress or a Loud Alarm Bell?

Infosys just did something that shook India’s IT ecosystem. Entry-level salaries. Freshers. Packages going up to ₹21 lakh per annum. Let that sink in. This isn’t a Silicon Valley startup throwing equity confetti. This is Infosys—India’s old-school IT giant—suddenly paying fresh graduates more than what many senior engineers earn after...

When the Megaphone Lowers Its Volume: Arnab, Sudhir and the Quiet Recalibration of Indian TV News

For years, Indian prime-time news has followed an unspoken rule: power speaks, anchors echo. Among them, Arnab Goswami stood out—not as a neutral observer, but as the most aggressive and unapologetic defender of the ruling establishment. Since the launch of Republic TV, his editorial positioning has been widely perceived as...

Two forests. One pattern. And a country pretending it’s not connected.

If you want to understand how “development” actually works in India, don’t listen to speeches. Watch what happens to forests that don’t have PR teams. Hasdeo Arand in Chhattisgarh and the Aravalli range across Rajasthan–Haryana–Delhi–Gujarat tell the same story in two different accents. One is a dense, living forest that...