Kiran D. Tare

The TCS Nashik incident and its grim revelations show that India Inc. needs an urgent cultural reckoning.   India’s corporate sector has long been celebrated as a beacon of meritocracy, diversity, and opportunity. Gleaming office towers in Mumbai, Pune, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Gurugram house millions of working professionals who arrive each morning with ambitions and the presumed expectation of a safe workplace. But beneath the polished surface of this world, a deeply troubling pattern is...

When sections of India’s self-anointed ‘liberal’ media cheer Pakistan’s fleeting diplomatic theatre, they reveal less about geopolitics than about their own reflexes.  There is a peculiar reflex that grips a section of India’s self-styled ‘liberal’ media whenever the world tilts even slightly against the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Central government. It is not analysis, not even contrarianism in the noble sense, but a barely concealed thrill - an instinct to diminish India’s agency if doing...

The recent conviction of Amit Jogi underscores how, despite delays and distortions, India’s justice system can still bring the powerful to account Amit Jogi The complexities of India’s judicial system, and its eventual credibility, are best illustrated not in abstract doctrine but in the fate of the powerful. Few propositions are more frequently doubted and more intermittently vindicated than the idea that the law can reach those once thought untouchable. The recent conviction of Amit Jogi,...