Cricket Already Wrote Football’s Playbook. Indian Football Won’t Read It.
Cricket Already Wrote Football’s Playbook. Indian Football Won’t Read It. Sports Cricket Already Wrote Football’s Playbook. Indian Football Won’t Read It. Every few months the same fight starts. Football fans call the cricket World Cup a ten team tournament. Cricket fans say at least we qualify for ours. Both sides are wasting their breath, because […]
Australia Didn’t Start Trusting India. It Stopped Leaning on China.
Geopolitics / India Australia Didn’t Start Trusting India. It Stopped Leaning on China. On July 9 in Melbourne, Australia finally agreed to sell India uranium after twelve years of saying no. Everyone is asking why it said yes. The better question is why it spent twelve years saying no, and what actually changed. It was […]
India Armed Indonesia. The Real Prize was the Port.
India Armed Indonesia. The Real Prize Was the Port. Geopolitics / India India Armed Indonesia. The Real Prize was the Port. On 7th July, PM Modi flew to Jakarta and signed a missile deal everyone noticed. The part almost nobody led with was the port. And the port is the whole point. The headline wrote […]
India is not a Fence-Sitter. It is the Smartest Player in the Room.
Geopolitics / India India is not a Fence-Sitter. It is the Smartest Player in the Room. Everyone keeps calling India indecisive. Picking no side, committing to nothing, just floating. They have it completely backwards. India picked a side a long time ago. The side is India. The criticism comes in cycles. India buys Russian oil, […]
India’s Smallest Islands Are Quietly Its Biggest Card Against China
Geopolitics / India India’s Smallest Islands are quietly its Biggest Card against China On June 1 the Andaman and Nicobar Command got a new chief, and almost nobody noticed. It is one of the most loaded postings in the Indian military, and the reason is a gap in the sea barely 3 kilometres wide that […]
India Just Courted the Netherlands, Italy and the Nordics. Not Just France and Germany.
The Quiet Europe Pivot Geopolitics / India India Just Courted the Netherlands, Italy and the Nordics. Not Just France and Germany. PM Modi swept five countries in six days. The headline was Norway, the first Indian PM there in 43 years. The real story was who he chose, and what each one quietly controls. Everyone […]
India and Russia Are Not Brothers. And That Is Exactly Why It Works
India and Russia Are Not Brothers. And That Is Exactly Why It Works Geopolitics / India India and Russia Are Not Brothers. And That Is Exactly Why It Works Every few months the internet decides India is Russia’s loyal little sibling, funding a war and stuck in the past. The real relationship is older, colder […]
India’s Sports Economy Just Crossed $2 Billion. It Is Really a Cricket Economy.
India’s Sports Economy Just Crossed $2 Billion. It Is Really a Cricket Economy. Sports / Business India’s Sports Economy Just Crossed $2 Billion. It Is Really a Cricket Economy. The boom is real and fast, nearly doubled in four years. But follow the money and almost all of it lands in one sport, a few […]
I Had Never Heard of Welspun. Then I Walked Into Their Factory in Kutch.
I Had Never Heard of Welspun. Then I Walked Into Their Factory in Kutch. Personal / Business I Had Never Heard of Welspun. Then I Walked Into Their Factory in Kutch. A company supplying Costco, Walmart, Marriott and Hilton across the world, manufacturing out of a district most people only know because of the 2001 […]
I Visited the Place Where India’s Biggest Business Idea Was Born in a Village, Not a Boardroom
I Visited the Place Where India’s Biggest Business Idea Was Born in a Village, Not a Boardroom Personal / Business I Visited the Place Where India’s Biggest Business Idea Was Born in a Village, Not a Boardroom I have eaten Amul butter on toast for most of my life without thinking twice about it. Then […]