If I had to describe 2025 in one line, I would say “It was a year where the world refused to behave.” What used to be predictable became uncertain, alliances shifted, tariffs returned, neighbours bristled, and the global system stopped pretending it was stable. From elections and trade tensions to wars, protests, and new laws […]
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Lab-Grown Diamonds have reshaped how we think about brilliance. A few days ago, a friend sent me a message on WhatsApp a small post announcing that he is selling lab-grown diamonds. That caught my attention and started thinking how the whole landscape changed from those times I worked in worldwide diamond. Even Ten years ago,
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Beyond Symbolism, Toward Systems India’s first Swadeshi moment taught us that everyday choices can bend history. Swadeshi 2.0 asks for something harder—and better. Not bonfires, but benchmarks. Not closing doors, but opening workshops that meet the world’s toughest standards. This is a movement of preference, not prohibition: we will buy Indian when Indian earns our
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When I saw the ticker flash about new U.S. tariffs hitting Brazilian coffee, my first reaction was simple: this isn’t a supply story—it’s a strategy story. And it starts with names. Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is now central to America’s morning ritual. If Washington taxes Brazil’s beans hard, the ripple runs through
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I was running through month-end deliverables at my desk, engrossed in a Power BI report that was screaming more red than usual. My colleague Sagar rushed in, wide-eyed, and asked, “You know what just happened at the White House?” “War of words between President Zelensky and Mr. Trump,” he said. Clicked BBC on my phone—it
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For the last half-century, the global order has been shaped not just by nuclear arsenals or energy reserves, but by technological hegemony. From microchips to artificial intelligence, each wave of technological disruption has shifted the center of gravity of global power. We are now on the brink of another such seismic shift—and it’s called Quantum
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