Nvidia is already around 10% below its peak. Google, Meta and Tesla are all under heavy pressure, with some sessions seeing declines of more than 2%. The S&P 500 is also feeling the impact. The bigger story is what is happening to the AI trade — the enormous amount of...
Kathmandu is asking a question the world cannot comfortably avoid: When a climate-vulnerable country suffers a catastrophic disaster, who should answer for it? Nepal is now confronting one of the most devastating disasters in its recent history. Floods triggered by a glacial collapse and cascading hazards in the Himalayas have...
Every few months, a new theory appears about who will lead India after Narendra Modi. Right now, two names dominate the talk: Yogi Adityanath and Amit Shah. Add to this the loud claim that India is turning into a “Hindu Rashtra,” and you have a topic that gets clicks but...
India likes to talk about its demographic dividend. The world’s youngest large country, a median age of 28, a workforce that will keep growing while China and the West grow old. It is a good story. But a new NITI Aayog report just put a number on the other side...
India is celebrating the arrival of the AI revolution. Google, Amazon, Meta and other global technology giants are pouring billions into data centres. Governments proudly announce investment figures. Politicians talk about jobs. Headlines speak of India becoming the next global technology powerhouse. On paper, it sounds like progress. But India...
Every year, millions of students walk out of Indian colleges with a degree in their hands. Engineering degrees. MBA degrees. Commerce degrees. Science degrees. Computer science degrees. They have attended lectures, written examinations, submitted assignments and memorized enough information to survive years of academic evaluation. Then they enter the real...
The United States just crossed a number too large for most people to picture. Its national debt has passed $40 trillion. That works out to about $117,000 for every American, man, woman, and child. The debt has doubled in just ten years. And the pace is not slowing down. The...
There is a question that millions of India’s salaried and self-employed middle class should be asking: “If I can be responsible enough to pay taxes to the government for 20 or 30 years, why is the government not responsible enough to protect me when I fall?” Take Bengaluru. A software...
We are taught from childhood that democracy is the best form of government. People vote, governments are elected, leaders are changed, and power is supposed to remain with the people. But today, an uncomfortable question is emerging across the world: What happens when people start losing faith in democracy because...
Every rupee of tax that flows into the central government has a story. In August 2026, that story became starkly visible when the numbers landed: South India, with just about 30 percent of India’s population, generated over 30 percent of the nation’s tax revenue. This is not accidental. This is...
