Parliament’s legislative activity through 2026 has covered a wide range of subjects, from judicial reforms to delimitation and higher education regulation. This roundup tracks the current status of key bills introduced or passed since January 2026, spanning the Budget Session…
India’s New UPI Legislation: What the Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026 Actually Changes For over six years, one principle has anchored India’s digital payments ecosystem: transactions made through the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) carry no merchant charges. That…
A wake-up call from SEBI’s Chairman is forcing India’s boardrooms to look past paperwork and ask a harder question. For years, Indian companies have measured good governance in a fairly simple way. Count the number of independent directors on the…
Excerpted and adapted from ‘Chanakya’s Justice: Timeless Wisdom for the Modern World’ Introduction: The Jurisprudential Foundations of Ancient Indian Administration Long before the modern doctrines of administrative law, fiduciary duty, and public accountability found articulation in Western jurisprudence, ancient India…
For decades, corporate treasury ran on a simple rhythm. Payments cleared in batches. Cash positions were checked once or twice a day. Weekends and bank holidays were, in effect, financial downtime. That rhythm is disappearing. Real-time payment rails now move…
Chanakya’s Justice: When a 2,300-Year-Old Text Speaks to Today’s Courts Paperback now available • ISBN 978-93-5916-471-7 Ancient legal systems are often underestimated in the breadth and sophistication of their jurisprudential thought. Kautilya’s Arthashastra composed in India around 300 BCE stands…
‘డబ్బుతో క్రమశిక్షణ – జీవితంలో క్రమశిక్షణకు అద్దం పడుతుంది’ బ్యాంక్ ఖాతాలో ఎంత మొత్తం ఉందో చూసి ఒక వ్యక్తి ఆర్థికంగా విజయవంతమయ్యాడా లేదా అని నిర్ధారించడం సర్వసాధారణం. కానీ నిజమైన ఆర్థిక పరిజ్ఞానం అంకెలల్లో లేదు; అది ప్రవర్తనలో, అలవాట్లలో, నిర్ణయాలు తీసుకునే విధానాల్లో ప్రతిఫలిస్తుంది. డబ్బు విషయంలో ఒక వ్యక్తి ఎంతక్రమశిక్షణగా వ్యవహరిస్తాడో,…
Somewhere in the last two years, “prompt engineering” became a personality trait. LinkedIn bios now boast of mastering ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini as though fluency in typing instructions were equivalent to professional competence. It is not. Knowing how to phrase…
WEEK 2: July 6-12, 2026 The second week of July 2026 was headlined by Prime Minister Modi’s landmark state visit to Indonesia, a major fertiliser-reform scheme, a successful strategic missile test, record foreign exchange reserves, and a fresh scientific reclassification…
Why Discipline With Money Reflects Discipline in Life Financial literacy is usually taught as a technical subject, covering interest rates, tax slabs, mutual fund categories, and insurance riders. That framing is not wrong, but it is incomplete. The way a…
