For centuries, a handloom product carried a story. A story of a weaver. A story of a family. A story of a village. A story of heritage passed down through generations. But somewhere along the way, that story began disappearing. Today, the biggest enemy of genuine handloom is not changing...
For years, Indians have proudly pointed to Silicon Valley and said, “Look at who is running the world’s biggest technology companies.” And they have a point. Today, some of the most influential technology companies on Earth are led by people of Indian origin. Sundar Pichai – Google and Alphabet Satya...
Ashwini Vaishnaw recently told a room full of startups that India will move from a “services nation” to a “product nation” on the back of chip making. The government now backs 24 fabless design startups and wants 50. He is right that design is where India’s real edge lies. We...
There is a comfortable lie going around that India has produced nothing in artificial intelligence. It is wrong, and it is worth correcting before we get to the part that should actually worry us. In February 2026, a Bengaluru company called Sarvam released two large language models built from scratch,...
When A. P. J. Abdul Kalam died in Shillong on 27 July 2015, the whole country stopped. People who had never met him cried as if they had lost a family member. But the most powerful part of his story was not how he died. It was what he left...
Every Indian has lived this moment. The 10th or 12th result day arrives. A student who studied for two years sits in front of a screen, types the roll number, and waits. The page spins. It times out. It throws an error. The family refreshes for three hours. A railway...
For centuries, nations fought to secure land. In the industrial age, they fought to secure oil. In the digital age, they fought to secure data. In the age of artificial intelligence, nations may soon find themselves fighting to secure something even more fundamental: Intelligence itself. Most people still view AI...
This week, SpaceX went public. The shares were priced at $135 each, the company was valued at around $1.77 trillion, and the offering raised roughly $75 billion. It is the largest stock market debut in history. That single sentence is bigger than the entire IPO that made Saudi Aramco famous...
On June 12, 2026, history was made — not at a government summit, not at a UN conference, not by any elected leader. It was made at the Nasdaq in New York, by a single person from South Africa who dropped out of a PhD program to build rockets. Elon...
People keep asking me why I do all my work on Claude instead of ChatGPT. My answer is a story that most people have not heard. It is the story of how a quiet company with 30 times fewer users quietly overtook the most famous AI company on Earth. The...
