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By any global standard, India shouldn’t work. At least, not the way it does. Too crowded, too chaotic, too noisy, too unpredictable—these are the tags it’s long carried. But speak...

In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Over a century later, no Indian citizen has repeated the feat. The question lingers like...

In a quiet lab in Bengaluru, a 25-qubit quantum computer hums softly—its superconducting circuits cooled to near absolute zero. It’s not much to look at, but it represents a tectonic...

In a quiet village near Madurai, Tamil Nadu, a man named Virumandi Andi Thevar lives a life that, on the surface, seems unremarkable. A systems administrator by profession, he blends...

In the arid salt plains of Kutch, Gujarat, a quiet revolution is underway. Amid solar panels shimmering under the desert sun, India has commissioned its first off-grid 5 MW green...

In the dim corridors of an old Calcutta library, a brittle ledger lies unopened. Its pages are filled not with the exploits of kings or the declarations of empires, but...

In 2047, when India celebrates a century of independence, the government envisions a nation transformed—an economy worth $30 trillion, a per capita income of $20,000, and a society defined by...

“We keep measuring a banyan tree with a ruler made for bonsais.” — Anurag Kashyap, Cannes 2016 Somewhere between the buzz of red carpets and the echo of standing ovations...

“Sometimes, the first footprints are left not on home soil, but far across the ocean—inked in exile, penned in another tongue.” In the early 18th century, long before Rabindranath Tagore...