RBI’s Unsure Walk With E-Rupee
The central bank’s discourse on CBDC is caught between its abhorrence for private digital currencies and FOMO on innovation in global financial order. Its cautious steps on e-rupee may conceptually sit well with a government that wants a digitised economy, but they put a question mark on the bank’s intent on the ground
Neeraj Thakur - December 31, 2022
The Mountain’s Boy
While it is mountains calling during vacations, Purplle.com co-founder and CEO Manish Taneja gets his daily dose of relaxation from walking, when he leaves behind his gadgets and takes along just a pen and paper
Chitra Nair - January 02, 2023
India Needs A Neutral Authority To Hold Govt Accountable: Shashi Tharoor
Prior to withdrawing it in August last year, the government had, in December 2021, referred the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019—which was criticised for being in favour of the government—to a Joint Parliamentary Committee instead of sending it to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology, which was then headed by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor.
Kamalika Ghosh - December 31, 2022
Preserving Data Sanctity In The Era of Surveillance
Amid rising concerns over threat to privacy due to its surveillance approach, the government must up its game with more stringent and clear data protection laws if it wants to realise its ambition of a digital India
Chitra Nair - January 01, 2023
On Growth Trail Of A Microfinancing Entity
Microfinance has been globally recognised as a key enabler for financial inclusion. Anushree Jindal, founder of Svamaan Financial Services, talks about five factors that determine the success of a microfinance company
January 02, 2023
The Indian Way Of Regulating Big Tech
India wants to overhaul the mechanism through which it governs the fast-evolving tech sector and reams of data government initiatives and private sector produce. With Prime Minister Modi’s desire to imprint his muscular persona on it, the balancing act lies in its details
Kamalika Ghosh - December 31, 2022
India’s Digital Winning Like A Frankenstein
India is an aspirational digital state. It wants to belong to the connected world like a leader despite its limitations of being a low-middle-income economy, having a large number of poor people, large illiteracy levels and less-than-reliable telecom infrastructure. Will the government’s push from the top create a national digital blueprint or turn the country into Charlie Chaplin’s Feeding Machine?
Nishant - December 31, 2022
Zoho Beyond The Bustling City
The CEO and co-founder of the global SaaS platform is betting big on rural and non-urban business centres. It is not just a one-off experiment. He has the philosophy of transnational localism informing his multi-dimensional approach to rural capacity building
Pallavi Chakravorty - November 29, 2022
Good Change
Not every change lies at the cusp of shifting epochs. We should not ignore minor deviations from contemporary practices whose import is revealed only as history progresses, and not entirely in the moment of their occurrence.
Outlook Business Team - November 29, 2022
Doing Good Is Good Business
When a corporation pushes its energies and helps resolve social sector challenges through its engagement, it indirectly stimulates its own business development
Rajashree Birla - November 01, 2022
