BG Srinivas Nearly a thousand years ago, in the heart of Chola India, a hospital had a defined capacity, a named physician, designated staff, a pharmacy with a prescribed inventory and even a budget for keeping a lamp burning through the night. This was no vague claim about the medical wisdom of ancient Bharat. It…
BG Srinivas India has one of the world’s largest foreign-exchange reserves—about US$734.6 billion as of early October 2026. Yet it cannot reliably manufacture several critical inputs on which its economy depends, from rare-earth magnets to active pharmaceutical ingredients. When China restricted magnet export licences in 2025, Indian electric-vehicle manufacturers faced supply-chain disruptions. A country with…
BG Srinivas When Turkey’s financial regulators moved to crack down on a sprawling market-manipulation scheme, they unveiled a staggering web of systemic risk. The numbers behind the investigation are massive: 56 arrests, 131 investment funds frozen or liquidated, $19 billion in assets impacted, and over 455,000 retail investors left reeling. Yet, tucked away inside the…
BG Srinivas There was a time when a family had one doctor. Not a cardiologist for the heart, a nephrologist for the kidney, a neurologist for the brain, a dermatologist for the skin and an orthopaedician for the knee. There was simply the family doctor. He knew you. He knew your blood pressure, your blood…
BG Srinivas The Ministry of Finance notification of 14 September 2026 has triggered a familiar cycle: alarm on social media, talk of a “UPI tax”, and a flood of AI-generated explainers dressed up as government releases. Some of what is circulating is accurate, some is not, and the actual picture deserves a sober reading. What…
