Why Trump deserves the Nobel Peace prize No, not for the Gaza ceasefire, but for undermining, from within, the most powerful imperial power in the world thefederal.com/category/opini… #PeaceNobel #DonaldTrump #NobelforTrump #GazaCeasefire

The Rupee is going global already When Korean MNCs book huge profits by selling stakes in their Indian subsidiaries and repatriate the capital, they help globalize the rupee acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc… #GlobalisingRupee #LGIndiaIPO #HyundaiIndiaIPO #CapitalAccountConvertibilitye

Cartoon & Editorial The Indian Express on naxalite surrender. #naxalsurrender

The week in retrospect: the unintended consequences of Trumpian tariffs thecore.in/business/trump… #GazaCeasefire #AustraliaTradeGains #BritishSteel #DataCenters

Diwali is a festival built on interdependence: you pursue wealth by spending, not hoarding, in the knowledge others would spend, too, making for collective prosperity. Happy Diwali!

Data centre boom calls for serious power sector reform To meet rising power demand, as India electrifies, new technologies for coal gasification and carbon capture for use turn vital basispointinsight.com/Story/Home/to-… #Electrification #coalgasification #powerstorage #carboncapture

Firecrackers as class aggression The rich make competitive noise, pollute the air, switch on their air purifiers and air conditioners, and leave the less well-off to choke, wheeze and sicken basispointinsight.com/Story/Home/fir… #crackers #Diwalicrackers #AirPollution

The week in retrospect: Modi skips meeting with Trump, China’s next five-year plan aims for technological independence thecore.in/business/modi-… #DollarDecline #GoldDemand #TrumpXi #DiealiPollution

Why India should keep buying Russian oil, but not from Rosneft and Lukoil Buying Russian oil is not about the cost of energy, but to reduce the chance of a bipolar hegemony under the US and China thefederal.com/category/opini… #RussianOil #Lukoil #Rosneft #StrategicAutonomy #USSanctions

Why This Outrage over LIC Investing in Adani? Probe the allegations of government-Adani nexus in airport privatisation bids, but why oppose the company getting support from the country’s financial institutions when it was vital? basispointinsight.com/Story/Home/why… #LIC #Adani #WashingtonPost

Cartoon & Editorial The Indian Express

Who is a crony capitalist? Absent institutionalised political funding makes all large companies potential cronies, and those who win the ruthless race to be top crony also tend to be relatively efficient acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc… #cronycapitalist #politicalfunding

Trump's East Asian conquest and other developments The week in retrospect thecore.in/business/trade… #TrumpXi #TrumpSouthKorea #TrumpJapan #IndiaGrowthStalled #RareEarths

Trump might talk of G2, but dual global hegemony by the US and China is just whimsy Multiple other power centres operate in the world are crystallising, but it’s time India got its own house in order thefederal.com/category/opini… #G2 #USChina #NuclearTests #EuoropeanPower

Is a television ad by Ontario costing India a trade deal with the US? Does a Canadian apology for the ad embolden Trump to demand more from India? by basispointinsight.com/Story/Home/is-… #TrumpWantsNobel #CarneyApology #Reagan #Tariffs #OntarioAd

Why Mamdani's New York win resonates far beyond the city It transcends identity politics, revives socialism in the American discourse, and brings real-life problems into political focus thefederal.com/category/opini… #ZohranMamdani #NewYork #IndentityPolitics #AericanSocialism

India's IPO boom, Mamdani, Bihar polls The week in retrospect thecore.in/business/india… #IPOboom #Mamdani #CoalScamAcquittal #VoteChori #BiharPolls

Second-best policy is better than the status quo on FDI in e-commerce Allowing inventory for foreign-controlled ecommerce for export is a step forward, and so, welcome basispointinsight.com/Story/Home/yes… #ecommerceFDI #ecommerceInventory #boostingexports