Brazil’s Embraer In Talks With IndiGo, Air India for Expansion in Indian Market

The article was first published in Outlook Business on June 2, 2025.

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Yoga, haldi doodh, and now Kolhapuris—Indian culture needs protection from Western plagiarism

The article was first published in The Print on June 30, 2025. Not all ideas are unique. In the creative world, it is easy to get “inspired” by someone else’s work. But when your product is merely a copy of an object from another culture, can it even be called yours? And if you seek to profit from it by selling it at several times the price of the original, is it not simply cultural appropriation of the highest order? Art has a provenance; should culture then not have similar protections? Read more on The Print Find more Global Indian Top Reads

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Indian-origin entrepreneur Balaji Srinivasan buys private island to build new nation for techies

The article was first published in Mint on July 3, 2025.

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Lost in memory | Review of The Great Épinal Escape by Ghee Bowman

The article was first published in The Hindu on July 4, 2025. I’d never heard of these POWs before — all those Great Escapes & never a brown face among them.” This line in the Epilogue of Ghee Bowman’s The Great Épinal Escape perfectly expresses a reader’s state after finishing the book. The tale of over 500 Indian prisoners of war escaping from a German camp during World War II has lain buried in various archives and libraries until unearthed and excavated by the historian and author. But this book is more than just a story of an escape. Read more on The Hindu  

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How Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ affects Indians: From sending money to making investments, and crossing borders

The article was first published in Hindustan Times on July 4, 2025.

Since the 900-page details of what Trump has named ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ are now in, let's break down the immediate impact on Indians.

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Why Zohran Mamdani’s New York win does not really hold lessons for progressives across the world

The article was first published in Scroll on July 2, 2025. Social media platforms in India and those used by Indians abroad by are abuzz with exultations over Zohran Mamdani’s position as a frontrunner in New York city’s mayoral election. Reactions combine a mixture of ethnic pride and political relief in the face of the resurgence of Right-wing populism. Comments from members of the Indian diaspora speak of a new era for the American Left in “the greatest city in the world” (oddly, these leave out the bit about American actions around the world that have produced its greatness). Read more on The Scroll Find more Global Indian Top Reads

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