New Delhi, Oct. 25 -- The compost is dark-brown at the edges, black in the centre, still damp from the monsoon night. When I dig my fingers in, it breaks and catches the first light like new topsoil. ... Read More
Bengaluru, Oct. 5 -- By 1 pm on 11 September, people crowded in at the zila panchayat hall, in Dharwad, for what was billed as a "learning workshop" on jobs and skills. District officials, principals ... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 20 -- When I began reporting on Indian IT in 2000, just after the Y2K scare, the stories I heard were about the 'onsite dream' - an engineer sent to Chicago or San Jose, an H-1B visa ... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 12 -- In my last column, I wrote about a young woman I met on the Vande Bharat from Mysuru to Bengaluru-hunched over her laptop, spending nearly $200 (approximately Rs.17,653) of her ... Read More
Bengaluru, Aug. 21 -- Late in the 1980s, in a cramped shop in Rajpura, Punjab, three generations of a family business stood behind the counter. The matriarch, at its centre, listened without much expr... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 9 -- Yesterday, on the Vande Bharat Express from Mysuru to Bengaluru, I watched a fellow passenger-a young woman in her late twenties, working at a financial global capability centre (... Read More