Why Cultural Capture Demands a Rethink of Regulatory Basics

Episodes of failure do not always occur because of individual misconduct within an institution. A subconscious, gradual drift away from well-established standards and principles may hasten a race to the bottom as well.

Rabi N. Mishra

September 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM IST

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Moody’s Warns AI Could Redefine Sovereign and Corporate Credit by 2030

BasisPoint Insight

September 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM IST

Compliance, the Competitive Edge in Modern Banking

As banking embraces AI, fintech and speed-of-swipe risks, compliance must evolve from a back-office ritual into the circulatory system that sustains trust and resilience.

Anupam Sonal

September 3, 2025 at 6:18 AM IST

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AI Self-Reliance Will Need Strategic Realignment, More Capital

India’s AI mission blends self-reliance with coalition-building, positioning it as a Global South voice for inclusive growth and fair AI.

Indra Chourasia

August 21, 2025 at 9:49 AM IST

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Growth Without Jobs, Wealth Without Equity: India Needs a Bold Course Correction

India’s economy is expanding, yet jobs are scarce and inequality deepens. Without a bold reset, growth risks leaving too many behind.

Arvind Mayaram

August 20, 2025 at 4:26 AM IST

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India’s Banks Need a New Business Model Before Liquidity Risks Bite Harder

Deposit growth is slowing, liquidity risks are rising, and RBI rules are shifting. India’s banks must rewire their business models before the next shock.

K. Srinivasa Rao

August 14, 2025 at 7:30 AM IST

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Building India’s Second Moat in AI: Beyond Code, Beyond Cost, Towards Sovereign Value

India’s AI opportunity demands more than code, cost advantage or hopeful rhetoric. To be relevant as a global-tech-participant, we must pair product ambition and sovereign strategy with decisive, long-horizon investment in emerging tech infrastructure and research.

Srinath Sridharan

August 6, 2025 at 3:20 AM IST

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TCS Trims Fat as AI Shift Forces Rethink of India’s IT Growth Story

TCS’s 12,200 job cuts spotlight AI upheaval, margin strain and fading labour-cost advantages reshaping India’s IT services model.

Dhananjay Sinha

July 30, 2025 at 3:47 AM IST

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TCS Job Cuts

AI Tests India’s Tech Model and Policy Vision

TCS’s decision to trim jobs disrupts the industry’s narrative of frictionless transformation. It exposes how AI is not merely an efficiency lever but a structural force revealing India’s chronic underinvestment in education and innovation.

Srinath Sridharan

July 29, 2025 at 12:06 PM IST

TCS Job Cuts

Parliament Must Confront Security Lapses — Then Tackle Jobs Crisis

Operation Sindoor deserves scrutiny, but once the debate concludes, Parliament must address the rising unemployment and demand a credible jobs strategy.

BasisPoint Groupthink

July 29, 2025 at 3:54 AM IST

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Time to Launch Strategic AI Limitation Talks?

For India to have a serious voice in the debate, it will have to produce cutting edge AI models of its own

TK Arun

July 28, 2025 at 8:29 AM IST

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AI's Corporate Shell Game Must End

As journalist Karen Hao documents in her book Empire of AI, the industry’s leading firms are already engaging in mass surveillance, exploiting their workers, and exacerbating climate change.

Christopher Marquis

July 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM IST

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Navigating The Age Of AI Virtual Assistants

As virtual assistants and quantum computing reshape industries, India must urgently pivot education and employment to coexist with emerging machine intelligence.

K. Srinivasa Rao

July 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM IST

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Can AI Deliver Broad-Based Prosperity?

To prevent AI development from becoming an “imitation game,” Haupt and Brynjolfsson advise the developer community to embrace “centaur evaluations,” in which humans and AI systems jointly solve tasks.

Michael Spence

July 2, 2025 at 8:15 AM IST

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Basis Life

The Future of Leadership Need Not Be Algorithmic

Human-AI collaboration is not a technological milestone. It is actually a societal test for which our current models of leadership are not ready for.

Srinath Sridharan

July 1, 2025 at 1:16 AM IST

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What It Means To Build Local AI

Historians of the region have cautioned that applying a Western lens to local texts heightens the risk of misinterpreting indigenous perspectives.

Elina Noor

June 26, 2025 at 6:29 AM IST

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Banks Are Stronger, But Operational Risks Are Mounting

India’s banks are well-capitalised and profitable, but rising third-party and tech-related risks threaten to undo hard-won stability.

K. Srinivasa Rao

June 25, 2025 at 5:39 AM IST

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Is India’s Demographic Dividend Turning Into A Liability?

India’s demographic edge could become an economic burden without urgent policy coherence, private sector trust, and focus on real job creation.

Sanjay Mansabdar

June 21, 2025 at 5:39 AM IST

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India Risks Becoming Data Rich But Cognition Poor In The AI Era

India must move beyond data sovereignty to build and own LLMs as critical infrastructure, ensuring true AI autonomy and cultural integrity.

Krishnadevan V

June 20, 2025 at 1:54 AM IST

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Promise The Moon, Then Blame The Stars

Cash-strapped states are hitting pause on promises. As expenses soar and income lags, India’s welfare politics faces a fiscal reckoning.

TK Arun

June 16, 2025 at 10:49 AM IST

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How Companies Should – And Should Not – Deploy AI

An AI strategy should reimagine workflows to eliminate inefficiencies; augment decision-making and processes to encourage innovation and creativity; and enhance work, not mechanise it.

Vinciane Beauchene and Allison Bailey

June 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM IST

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Your Data Is Powering Bad Purchases

AI and big data can manipulate consumer choices, reducing welfare. Policies must ensure data minimisation, transparency, and ethical use.

Amitrajeet A. Batabyal*

May 12, 2025 at 11:16 AM IST

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Are Tech Broligarchs The New Global Rulers?

A silent empire is rising—not of nations, but of tech moguls—rewriting power, privacy, and the very fabric of democracy.

Srinath Sridharan

May 8, 2025 at 6:39 AM IST

AI Bets Test India’s IT Giants As Margins Slip And Clients Push Back

India’s top IT firms are chasing AI glory, but shrinking margins and client hesitancy suggest the transformation story may not pay off just yet.

Dev Chandrasekhar

April 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM IST

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Indian IT’s Real Reckoning Isn’t Tariffs Or AI

Three decades of steady growth have lulled Indian IT giants into complacency. The world is no longer willing to pay for their inefficiencies.

BasisPoint Groupthink

April 19, 2025 at 7:22 AM IST

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HCL Tech, Google Cloud Roll Out Agentic AI Solutions For Enterprises

BasisPoint Insight

April 12, 2025 at 5:46 AM IST

What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There, Say IT Recruiters As Hiring Slows

Even as IT hiring is sombre, AI roles soar. India’s tech workforce faces a brutal truth: traditional coding chops won’t cut it. The time to reboot was yesterday.

Krishnadevan V

April 7, 2025 at 12:12 PM IST

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Technology

Grok: Paving Way For Constructive Conversation On Generative AI Regulation

Grok has shown willingness to generate responses that other AIs would typically refuse. But it seems to mirror the tone of the user too.

Meghna Bal

April 7, 2025 at 7:29 AM IST

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AI

Is DeepSeek Really A Threat?

DeepSeek’s AI breakthrough has sparked comparisons to Tesla’s AC revolution, potentially reshaping AI with cost-effective models. While its claims remain unverified, a success could disrupt Nvidia’s dominance and redefine AI development. Instead of fearing foreign advancements, the U.S. must focus on leveraging global innovations while safeguarding critical technologies from hostile regimes.

Amar Bhide

January 31, 2025 at 1:24 PM IST

The Bureau

Equities Gain on Fed Rate-Cut Optimism; Yen Slides Amid Japan’s Political Transition

Moody’s Warns AI Could Redefine Sovereign and Corporate Credit by 2030

GST Overhaul Seen Adding 0.7-0.8% to GDP this Year

Setting the Record Straight on Trump’s India Rant

Nominal Weakness Tells the Real Story for RBI

Setback for Trump Tariffs in US Court, Hope for Traders

India Bets on SCO to Blunt the Edge of US Tariffs and Sanctions

India’s Economy Expands 7.8% in June Quarter, Highest in Five Quarters

Market Makers

Sarci-Sense: About Silent Goodbyes & How Middle-Age Friendships Disappear

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