Resolution process must lead to value maximization

India’s Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) has been widely credited with reshaping the country’s credit culture. Still, recent developments in large insolvency processes suggest that its foundational promise of value…

Why finance leaders must embrace AI before it passes them

Artificial intelligence is no longer a theoretical disruptor in the accounting profession it is an operational reality. What was, until recently, a series of isolated experiments is rapidly evolving into…

Paperless loo

To help save the planet, more people are switching from wipe to wash TP or not TP; that is the question. Had Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, been around today, that’s…

The forgotten doorway to divinity

By Jwalant Swaroop Spirituality has been made unnecessarily serious. Priests, monks, and moralists have turned it into a grave business, as if truth can only be reached with a long…

How to count for the future

The world’s largest census begins today. It will count us, but also map us with a sharper spatial lens than before. Past censuses were not blind to geography. They used…

‘War necessary…Iran wanted to control West Asian energy’

The Iran war is, by far, the most important military confrontation of the 21st century , and possibly the most important event of this century. What is at stake is…

Boomtown Blues

Jewar, UP, is the latest in a long list of Indian village settlements suffering birth pangs of town-making India’s newest airport in Jewar, UP, has made millionaires – dollar variety…

Trust Or Bust

Why age cannot wither the names Mir Jafar, Quisling, Judas. They haunt us across time As Kerala, West Bengal, and Tamil Nadu go to polls, SIR has shrunk all their…

Boomtown Blues

When the government takes land to build big projects, should it stop caring about farmers after paying them a lot of money? A new airport is being built in Jewar,…

Trust Or Bust 

Some names never get forgotten — like Mir Jafar, Judas Iscariot, and Vidkun Quisling. Even today, their names are used to describe someone who betrays others. That’s because what they…