Politics
The Map That Will Redraw Indian Politics
Delimitation is the most consequential exercise in Indian democracy that almost nobody can explain. The arithmetic is simple. Everything after the arithmetic is not.
The Big Story · Economy
UPI Conquered India. Now It Wants the World.
The payment rail that made cash optional at every chai tapri is quietly becoming India's most successful export — and its subtlest instrument of soft power.
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Technology
India's Silicon Sangam
Three fabs, two states, and one stubborn national ambition: the inside story of India's bid to print its own chips before the decade runs out.
Cinema
The Centre of Gravity Has Moved South
The biggest Indian films of the decade were not made in Mumbai. The industry is finally admitting what the box office has been saying for years.
Sport
The Gukesh Generation
India produced four grandmasters in its first fifty years of chess. It now produces one every six weeks. Inside the machine that turned a pastime into a pipeline.
Science
Rebuilding the Monsoon Machine
The forecast that moves a trillion-dollar farm economy is being rebuilt neuron by neuron. India's weather scientists are betting the granary on it.
Culture
The Great Indian Wedding Correction
The ₹10 lakh wedding is quietly replacing the ₹1 crore one — and an entire economy of decorators, caterers, and expectations is renegotiating itself.
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Economy
The Quiet Boom in Global Capability Centres
The world's biggest companies have moved their engine rooms to Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Pune — and this time they brought the steering wheel too.
Technology
Teaching the Machines to Speak in 22 Tongues
The next hundred million Indians online will not type in English. The race to build AI that speaks Bhojpuri, Santali, and Tulu is a race for who gets to be understood.