Its Athletes for an Unusual Asian Games in Japan Imagine preparing for the biggest sporting competition in Asia and discovering that your bedroom may look more like a shipping container than an athletes’ village. Now imagine your country’s sports authorities deciding that the best response is to build a similar

Sethuraman Panchanathan Makes History With NAE’s Bueche Award A child standing in a queue outside the American Center in Chennai in 1969 could hardly have known that the small grey rocks behind a glass display would eventually influence the direction of his life. Those were pieces of the Moon brought

India’s Semiconductor Moment: From Chip Design Powerhouse to Global Manufacturing Hub For decades, India was exceptionally good at designing technology — but much of the physical hardware powering that technology was manufactured somewhere else. That equation is beginning to change. India’s semiconductor strategy is moving from design and engineering capability

Can a House Really Be Built in Three Days? Imagine replacing a construction site full of bricks, shuttering, scaffolding and dozens of workers with a giant robotic printer. Instead of ink, it extrudes specially formulated concrete. Instead of paper, it follows a digital CAD design. Layer by layer, a building

Bharat Innovates 2026: Can India Turn Deep Research Into Global Technology? The harder problem has often been what happens after the invention. Bharat Innovates 2026 is attempting to tackle precisely that gap—taking research-born technologies out of laboratories and connecting them with investors, industry and international markets. For decades, India’s technology

Working for a New York Boss From Pune: The Real Rules of India, US Remote Work At 8:30 in the morning, Manhattan is waking up. At the same moment, Pune is already well into its evening. For an Indian professional working remotely for a New York-based employer, the international border

When AI Gets a Wallet: Is India Ready to Let Agents Shop, Book and Pay? The next big step in artificial intelligence may not be another chatbot. It may be an AI that actually does things for you—including spending your money. Imagine telling an AI assistant: “Find me the cheapest

Indians in Australia 2026: A Growing Community Living Between Opportunity and Reality Good universities. A strong economy. Professional opportunities. A multicultural society. A large Indian community. And, for many migrants, the possibility of building a long-term life in a country very different from India. But the Australia of 2026 is

Indian Culture in America: How a Community Is Preserving Its Roots While Shaping American Life Walk through parts of New Jersey, Texas, California, Illinois or New York and it is possible to encounter an India that exists thousands of kilometres from the subcontinent. There may be an Indian grocery store,

How Indian-Origin Leaders Reached the Top of Global Business A boy growing up in Chennai becomes the head of one of the world’s most influential technology companies. An engineer from Hyderabad rises to lead Microsoft. A woman from Kolhapur reaches the top of Chanel. A Kanpur-born engineer helps shape the

Depiction of Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin A map normally sits quietly on a wall, in a textbook or inside a geography application. But sometimes a map becomes foreign policy. That is exactly what has happened after India raised concerns over the way Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin appear on

Global South Ambition and Practical Cooperation On September 12 and 13, New Delhi will become one of the most closely watched diplomatic addresses in the world. The occasion is the 18th BRICS Summit, hosted by India at Bharat Mandapam during its 2026 BRICS chairship. But this is not simply another