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India Inc.'s latest boilerplate: AI ate my growth but the future is bright!

New Delhi, April 28 -- It is earnings season again, that wonderful fortnight when corporate leaders use soaring prose to describe uneven performances. Last week alone offered a taste of the genre with... Read More


A new book reveals the invisible forces behind the decisions and choices we make

New Delhi, April 25 -- Oliver Sweet opens his book, The Rules That Make Us: How Culture Shapes the Way We Act, Think, Buy and Believe, with a joke. Culture and Cognition walk into a bar. Cognition stu... Read More


Kapal Mehra: the man who aimed to be India's polyester king but ended up with nothing

New Delhi, April 25 -- Kapal Mehra once went head-to-head with Dhirubhai Ambani in the ruthless synthetic textile wars of the 1980s. In a battle fought over polyester yarn and government licences, Meh... Read More


Bigwigs walk away with bankrupt assets. Is there a different way?

New Delhi, April 21 -- India's Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), which was launched with the objective of rescuing distressed assets from promoters who had made a hash of them and returning them t... Read More


E. Sreedharan: The man who tried to change how India moves

New Delhi, April 18 -- A soft-spoken civil engineer with a fondness for early mornings and scriptures, Elattuvalapil Sreedharan appears to be an unlikely revolutionary. Yet few individuals have alter... Read More


Divisions within Tata Trusts threaten the idea of Tata itself

New Delhi, April 14 -- In The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon argues that great institutions rarely collapse in a single moment. Instead, they weaken through small, ... Read More


The farce of Lalit Modi's obsession with the IPL

New Delhi, April 11 -- The 2026 edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) got the spicy start it didn't particularly need when its exiled former chief, Lalit Modi, took a swipe at Lucknow Super Giant... Read More


Biba calls out the 'lady' prefix, yet boardrooms leave women on the margins

New Delhi, April 7 -- A recent Women's Day ad by apparel brand Biba asks why a woman is always professionally introduced with a prefix: lady pilot; lady cop; lady judge; lady doctor; lady boss. The ta... Read More


Storming the shop floor: The Lila Poonawalla story

New Delhi, April 4 -- Few Indian women have stormed the male bastion of manufacturing as forcefully as Lila Poonawalla. She managed this feat not in the diversity-conscious 2020s, but through the grit... Read More


Why India must stop learning corporate lessons from America Inc.

New Delhi, March 31 -- Last week, a US state court delivered a $375 million verdict against Meta Platforms Inc., finding the company used unfair, deceptive, and unconscionable trade practices by faili... Read More