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Tata Sons' deferral on Chairman Chandra's extension rekindles governance issues

New Delhi, March 3 -- Most companies have an institutional document ostensibly about governance, but one that functions more opportunistically. Filed under headers like Leadership Norms or Succession ... Read More


Manmohan Singh: The quiet reformer who reshaped India's economic destiny

New Delhi, Feb. 28 -- In his parting speech as prime minister, Manmohan Singh hoped that history would judge him more kindly. He was right; he usually was, for this was a man who measured his words by... Read More


The bottomless pit that is BSNL

New Delhi, Feb. 24 -- More than six years after the government poured Rs.69,000 crore for its revival and nearly two years after it paid Rs.132 crore to Boston Consulting Group for a strategic transfo... Read More


Why the LeanSpark theory of frugal innovation fails to convince

New Delhi, Feb. 21 -- There are books about innovation. And then there are books about human enterprise. LeanSpark by Jaideep Prabhu, Priyank Narayan and Mukesh Sud belongs firmly to the latter catego... Read More


Ghanshyam Das Birla: The capitalist who built India's freedom and future

New Delhi, Feb. 21 -- On the evening of 30 January 1948, as an assassin's bullets shattered the winter calm at Birla House in New Delhi, the lives of Mahatma Gandhi and Ghanshyam Das Birla were bound ... Read More


Carbon chickens are coming home to roost, and India has nowhere to hide

New Delhi, Feb. 17 -- For years, any conversation around Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) frameworks felt like an unnecessary diversion in Indian boardrooms; a glossy chapter in annual repo... Read More


Anu Aga's quiet triumph over tragedy at Thermax

New Delhi, Feb. 14 -- Anu Aga is a byword in Indian business for her resilience, courage, and stoicism in the face of personal tragedies. Less celebrated is her business acumen and her surgical turnar... Read More


Jevons Paradox suggests AI is an upgrade, not an extinction event, for Indian IT

New Delhi, Feb. 10 -- For over a year, Indian IT's titans have sold a comforting narrative: that AI is a tool, not a terminator. Infosys Ltd. Chairman Nandan Nilekani assured investors of a "new wave ... Read More


The revolutionary orthodoxy and pioneering spirit of T.V. Sundram Iyengar

New Delhi, Feb. 7 -- In 1930s Madurai, a city of temples and architecture, Thirukkurungudi Vengaram Sundram Iyengar's home smelt of two incompatible things: sandalwood incense and motor oil. The incen... Read More


Budget 2026's rare earth push shows strategic industries need state support

New Delhi, Feb. 3 -- The Economic Survey 2025-26 urged a comprehensive national policy for critical minerals and rare earth elements (REEs) to reduce import dependence, specifically from China. That b... Read More