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Elon Musk is trying to bully his way into the Indian market. Now, as he accuses powerful Indian business interests of obstructing Starlink’s entry, he has found an immediate ally in Rahul Gandhi. Musk has publicly insinuated that Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries, wields undue influence over the Indian government. Gandhi, who has long accused the Modi government of favouring powerful industrialists, was quick to join the conversation. But before accepting Musk’s narrative of a billionaire fighting a monopoly, perhaps we should ask a more fundamental question: what exactly is Musk trying to achieve in India, and why is…

India missed the Industrial Revolution. That sentence is almost too simple for the history it tries to contain. Britain industrialised first, followed by parts of…

When we think of film piracy, we usually picture a victim with a very fat wallet. A Bollywood blockbuster drops on a Friday. By midnight,…

For years, India was described as a balancing power—important but cautious, large but reactive, managing the world rather than shaping it. That description is now…

The recently released TVF series Space Gen: Chandrayaan should have been a landmark moment for Indian prestige television.It had the budget.It had the backing of…