New Delhi, Sept. 5 -- For years, diesel has been treated in India like a troublesome relative: useful, occasionally impressive, but best kept at arm's length. Petrol has been deemed cleaner, quieter a... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 5 -- There was a time when reaching the Himalayas was itself an adventure. There were few motorable roads, journeys were slow, towns were small, and the mountains dictated the terms. ... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 30 -- Imagine a factory covering acres of land, drawing enough electricity to power a small city, requiring enormous cooling capacity and costing billions of dollars to build. Now imag... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 29 -- There is something wonderfully contradictory happening on Indian roads. Twenty-somethings are buying motorcycles that appear to have been designed before their parents learnt to ... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 29 -- There are moments when nature seems to remind humanity who is really in charge. This week, along the Nepal-China border, one such moment arrived with terrifying force-an enormous... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- India's hospitals are being invaded. Not by patients. Not by disease. But by capital. Over the past few years, some of the country's best-known hospital chains have moved into th... Read More
New Delhi, July 27 -- "AI is not just virtual. It has physics and real impacts. It has infrastructure, energy and hardware that is unseen. There is always someone suffering." - Kaveh Madani Ever... Read More
New Delhi, July 6 -- "Debts are like children - begot with pleasure, but brought forth with pain." - Moliere The numbers are beginning to gain weight. Not merely on paper, but on the economy itsel... Read More
New Delhi, July 6 -- The first itch is never accidental. It begins innocently enough. A new set of alloy wheels. Slightly wider tyres. A throatier exhaust note. Perhaps a subtle ambient light package ... Read More
New Delhi, June 21 -- India does not need another SUV. That is what common sense suggests in a nation of 1.4 billion people staring cluelessly at a market overflowing with high-riding machines named a... Read More