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A small share of merchant transactions accounts for a disproportionately large share of UPI's payment value, making targeted cost recovery more feasible

The simple reason free high-value UPI makes no sense and no one is talking about it

Ganesan Subramanian - September 17, 2026

GDP is built from thousands of economic data points—not a single measurement—and depends on complex statistical methods

Can we trust India’s GDP?

Rapid urbanisation, congestion, pollution, water stress and infrastructure overload have renewed the debate on administrative decentralisation

Why not distribute TN’s capital functions across the state?

Researchers at IIM Ahmedabad examined around 300 popular Hindi films from the 1960s through the 2010s to identify recurring representational patterns

Unmistakable bias in Bollywood movies: What, how, why & when?

NEET reserved 75% of seats for merit-based admission and capped fees at ₹5 lakh/year — leaving private college owners just 25% of seats to monetize, often to NRI applicants at a premium

Why do the Private Medical Colleges hate NEET? Are they funding CJP?

Honesty Not Best Policy

Honesty Not Best Policy

S Balakrishnan - February 3, 2019 1

The SC determines the time when Hindu should burst firecrackers during Deepavali, the height of Gokulashtami pyramids etc.

Yet Another Assault

S Balakrishnan - January 29, 2019 5

India is at the cusp of its destiny

India is at the cusp of its destiny

Satya Dosapati - January 25, 2019 8

Every time Jairam Ramesh or his colleagues start talking of corruption, their own sordid past blows up on their faces

An open request to Jairam Ramesh and his Congress colleagues

Sree Iyer - January 25, 2019 2

As the BJP disowned its core election promises, many of its core supporters disowned BJP.

BJP’s blunders, and way to win in 2019

J. G. Arora - January 15, 2019 22

Breaking caste barriers in reservation

Breaking caste barriers in reservation

Rajesh Singh - January 9, 2019 3

2G scam, Coal scam, Commonwealth scams and scams galore and not a single scratch on these crooks during the last 4 years.

Open letter to Jaitley – Please stop protecting Congress crooks

Satya Dosapati - January 7, 2019 13

Defeat of CPI(M) Certain

Defeat of CPI(M) Certain

S Balakrishnan - January 2, 2019 8

One doesn’t get a clear idea as to what does Modi and his party stand for.

Of lollipops and fools

Ravi Shanker Kapoor - January 2, 2019 2

It would be interesting to look at some available pointers that may shed some light on the reasons for Resignation of Urijit Patel as RBI Governor

India’s RBI gets a new Governor

Naagesh Padmanaban - December 13, 2018 1

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