Australia Tightens Visa Character Rules: What Direction 123 Means for Indians Living Abroad From 31 October 2026, Australia will apply a revised framework to certain visa refusals and cancellations involving character concerns. The changes place greater emphasis on community protection and domestic or family violence,…

From Harrods to the Met Museum: How Indian Designers Are Building a Global Diwali Fashion Market Gaurav Gupta’s Harrods showcase, Sabyasachi’s New York reception and Tarun Tahiliani’s Dubai Fashion Week finale point to a growing international market for Indian festive fashion. The opportunity is substantial—but…

India Inc Goes Global 2.0: Why Indian Companies Are Building Inside Foreign Markets India’s second major wave of corporate globalisation looks different from the acquisition spree of the 2000s. Today’s overseas bets increasingly combine local manufacturing, technology acquisition, supply-chain security, nearshoring and energy transition—turning Indian…

Wipro Consumer Care’s Global Beauty Strategy: How an Indian FMCG Business Built a Multinational Brand Portfolio From the British heritage of Yardley and Singapore-based LD Waxson to Malaysia’s Safi and the Philippines’ Splash, Wipro Consumer Care has built an international personal-care business largely through acquisitions.…

Satya Nadella’s Second Reinvention: Can Microsoft Win the AI Era as It Won the Cloud? The Hyderabad-born Microsoft CEO has already transformed the company once, turning Azure into a $100-billion-plus business. Now Nadella is attempting something harder: making Microsoft’s cloud, software, AI models and Copilots…

Five Indian-Origin Experts Elected to US National Academy of Medicine for Contributions to Health and Science Five Indian-origin experts working across public health, healthcare policy, cardiovascular genetics, biomedical engineering and neuroscience have been elected to the US National Academy of Medicine. Their recognition highlights the…

Tushar Kumar: From Rohtak to the Mayor’s Office in Britain at 23 Born in Haryana and raised in Britain, Tushar Kumar became mayor of Elstree and Borehamwood at 23, while his mother, Parveen Rani, took the mayoral office in neighbouring Hertsmere. Their journeys highlight the…

Dr. Reshma Kewalramani: The India-Connected Physician Leading a New Era of Biotechnology From medical training in Boston to the corner office at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Dr. Reshma Kewalramani has built a career at the intersection of medicine, biotechnology and global leadership. Her journey offers a larger…

Why Global Indians Have a Stake in the World’s Biodiversity Agenda The UN’s biodiversity conference in Armenia will bring governments together to assess progress towards the 2030 global nature targets. For overseas Indians, the stakes extend beyond conservation: they include the resilience of ecosystems in…

COP31 approaches in Antalya, the Indian diaspora has opportunities to connect climate finance, technology, research and community resilience across borders. But private investment and philanthropy cannot replace governments’ climate commitments. The real test is whether diaspora networks can help deliver measurable results where they are…

From New York to 900+ Centres: How ISKCON Took Krishna Consciousness Around the World In 1965, a 70-year-old Indian spiritual teacher arrived in New York carrying little more than books, a message and a determination to introduce the teachings of Krishna to people who knew very little about them. Six decades later, the organisation he founded has a presence that stretches across continents. The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), popularly known as the Hare Krishna movement, marks its 60th anniversary in 2026. Its official website currently lists 900+ centres worldwide, alongside thousands of festivals and more than 110 vegetarian restaurants associated with its global activities. That makes ISKCON’s story one of the more remarkable examples of an Indian spiritual tradition developing a sustained international presence. And the story begins in an unlikely place. From a small New York storefront to a worldwide movement When A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada arrived in New York in 1965, the city was hardly an obvious launchpad for a movement rooted in Vaishnava devotional traditions. Yet New York became the starting point. ISKCON was formally established in 1966, and its early activities centred on chanting, devotional practice, spiritual discussion and the distribution of Srila Prabhupada’s

Does India Really Need Billions of Dollars of AI Compute to Become a Superpower? India wants to become a major artificial-intelligence power. But there is a difficult question behind that ambition: does a country need to own enormous amounts of computing infrastructure to be a genuine AI superpower? The answer is not as simple as “yes.” Frontier AI requires extraordinary amounts of computing power. Training and operating the most capable models involves advanced processors, large data centres, enormous electricity requirements and sophisticated networking infrastructure. Countries and companies controlling these resources therefore possess an important strategic advantage. But AI is much larger than frontier-model training. India’s opportunity may lie not only in building enormous computing clusters, but also in deciding where sovereign infrastructure is essential, where collaboration is sensible and where Indian companies can create global value without owning every layer of the technology stack. That distinction could determine India’s AI strategy over the next decade. The compute problem is real Artificial intelligence ultimately runs on physical infrastructure. Behind every large language model are semiconductor accelerators, servers, networking equipment, cooling systems, electricity and data-centre capacity. The most advanced AI systems require huge computational resources. Access to cutting-edge chips has also become