An entrepreneur’s autobiography — 2002 onwards Prologue: I Was Never Short of Ideas. I Had to Learn the Power of Focus. If I look back at my life and career, one thing becomes clear: I was never someone who wanted to follow the usual path. While many people were concentrating...
A Different Way of Buying Handloom — Built Around the Customer, Not Excess Inventory Handlooom.com, a brand of DMZ International Imports & Exports Pvt. Ltd. and associated with the Save Handloom Foundation, operates on a different business model from conventional fashion and handloom retailers. We do not believe that handloom...
No soldiers cross the border. No tanks arrive at the capital. No warning sirens sound. Instead, something much quieter happens. A phone arrives from another country. Then a television. Then medicines. Then machinery. Then batteries, solar panels, computer chips, fertilizers, toys, clothing and thousands of everyday products. They are cheaper....
The day I entered the handloom industry, I expected to learn about fabrics, looms, yarn counts, dyes, and weaving techniques. Instead, I learned something far more disturbing. The biggest problem wasn’t weaving. It was trust. Every product seemed to carry a beautiful story. “Handmade.” “Artisan-made.” “Natural.” “Eco-friendly.” “Traditional.” But when...
Iran has put a second sea gate on the table. After months of squeezing the Strait of Hormuz, Tehran now says it may “activate” the Bab el-Mandeb Strait too. The headlines call it a blockade. It is not one yet. That gap between threat and act is the whole story,...
India’s love story with gold is centuries old. From weddings to festivals, from savings to status, gold is not just a metal here — it is emotion, security, and family pride. But suddenly, people across India woke up to shocking headlines: Gold prices jumping by nearly ₹11,000 Silver crossing ₹3...
India is once again hearing a familiar message from Prime Minister Narendra Modi — reduce unnecessary travel, prefer work-from-home where possible, conduct virtual meetings, avoid excess fuel consumption, and spend carefully on luxury imports like gold and foreign trips. At first glance, many may think this is simply about saving...
The Strait of Hormuz is not just a narrow waterway between Iran and Oman. It is one of the most powerful economic chokepoints on Earth. Nearly one-fifth of the world’s oil passes through this small stretch of sea. Whoever influences it holds leverage over global energy markets. But now a...
The world economy runs on a fragile thread called confidence, and oil is one of the pillars holding that thread together. When oil routes are threatened, markets panic, governments react, and ordinary people feel it in their daily lives. That is exactly what is unfolding around the Strait of Hormuz...
Venezuela isn’t a poor country. It’s an inconveniently rich one. Venezuela sits on the largest proven oil reserves on Earth — bigger than Saudi Arabia. Not lithium. Not rare earths. Crude oil. The drug that runs modern civilization. And that single fact explains everything. Why the US Cares About Venezuela...
