As the global economy grapples with its severest crisis since the pandemic, India has caught a particularly biting strain of the flu. Geopolitical tumult—Russia’s grinding war in Ukraine, Israel’s bombardment of Gaza and now Donald Trump’s killer tariffs—has disrupted global trade and dented investor confidence. That third factor hits directly at India’s momentum. We hold…
Narendra Modi is no stranger to adversity and has invariably come out the better for it in the 11 years he has been at India’s helm. Now in the second year of his third term, the prime minister faces his toughest challenge, a trilemma, if you will. There is US president Donald Trump, who, in…
Where others run far when they hear bees buzzing, Gajanan Bhalerao runs towards them. They have been his childhood friends since the time he was growing up in Sawana in Maharashtra’s Hingoli district, climbing trees to hunt for beehives, squeezing the nectar out of them and licking the honey off his fingers. If they stung…
When Nabamita Bhattacharya and her husband, Sattam, left behind a comfortable life in London to return to Kolkata in 2013, it was not for career prospects, but for family. Their ageing parents needed them close. The decision would quietly plant the seed for a venture that, years later, would bridge similar distances for many others….
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T he roads and water bodies leading to Gadihama, the last, and perhaps remotest, village of south Kashmir’s Kulgam district, are strikingly clean. Starkly different from the Valley’s other rural parts, no garbage meets the eye as one cuts through jampacked apple orchards and finds the crystalline Aharbal waterfall feeding into the Veshaw river, the…
In a remote corner of Assam, where the rustle of areca nut (tamul in Assamese) leaves falling to the ground went mostly unnoticed, Arindam Dasgupta spied something different. Where others saw waste, he saw possibility. That vision gave birth to Tamul Plates Marketing Pvt Ltd in 2010, a social enterprise founded not in the boardrooms…
In 2012, Shruti Malik Oberoi made a bold choice that reshaped her life and the lives of hundreds around her. After a successful stint at Sapient Nitro in Gurugram, she walked away from the corporate hustle and the city’s maddening rush. Her heart was set on Yamunanagar, her hometown in Haryana, where she could live…
Marathoners Shriyans Bhandari and Ramesh Dhami faced a peculiar problem. They used several pairs of shoes every year, leaving them with a pile of old ones. “We wanted to recycle old shoes, but the concept of these being recycled and refurbished was unheard of,” says Bhandari. Source link
Sikkim—a land where mountain lakes reflect cobalt blue skies and the torn edges of snow-clad mountains. Amidst swirling mist and sudden rain, the scent of wild herbs and mountain flowers waft in—the source of half-remembered recipes for homely skincare products. In this enchanted land, Rinzing Choden Bhutia, 45, began a journey that would transform her…
