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Tall. Loud. Proud
19 Oct 2025 1:10 AM ISTIndia’s SUV market is turning red-hot, with luxury beasts commanding top rupee and middle-class marvels joining the race. It is more than a car. It is...
Vicious Debt Trap
13 Oct 2025 12:16 AM ISTIndia’s once-proud middle class, the engine of its economic miracle, is financially drowning as savings evaporate and loans rocket. Now is the time to...
Turbo Charge
11 Oct 2025 8:13 PM ISTWith GST cuts revving up India’s car market, automakers are rushing to roll out punchy new models, sporting price tags that can thrill both wallets...
Shifty Trade Winds
5 Oct 2025 11:16 PM ISTIndia must recalibrate before the economic web gets gnarly. Focus on US tariffs and threats might see it miss hidden headwinds, hurting growth,...
When Truth Be Taboo
28 Sept 2025 11:42 PM ISTThe Indian media can learn from Jimmy Kimmel’s return to US television after a brief suspension. It is proof that truth and satire can survive a scare...
When Tariffs Turn Toxic
21 Sept 2025 11:58 PM ISTTrump’s tariff manoeuvre to push India to its knees is beginning to boomerang. A brutal and gimmicky trade war is starving US consumers of their own...
Storm in the Himalayas
14 Sept 2025 11:10 PM ISTIndia’s neighbours have become victims of their own web of corruption, ethnic clashes and autocratic rule. For India, this is a time to refine...
When People Refuse to Sink
7 Sept 2025 11:07 PM ISTNeighbours across the hostile border, farmers from North India and Bollywood stars are helping Punjab beat the floods, even as the official...
Guzzle Muzzle
1 Sept 2025 2:27 AM ISTIndia has achieved its target of blending 20 per cent ethanol with petrol years ahead of schedule, which is great. But it could have been communicated...
Seven-Year Itch
24 Aug 2025 8:33 PM ISTFriction that began as a dispute over steel and aluminium levies during Trump’s first term has excalated into a clash that now threatens to recast...
From Beast to Brute
17 Aug 2025 10:30 PM ISTMahindra’s Thar and Roxx are great SUVs, but in the hands of many young, rash and wannabe drivers in India, these vehicles are fast adopting a bestial...
Oil, Uranium & Fickledom
10 Aug 2025 9:16 PM ISTThe US, a country buying uranium from Russia, is chastising India for procuring crude oil from that same nation, underscoring a new high in hypocrisy...