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‘The idea is to get credit to everybody’
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In conversation with Hrushikesh Mehta, co-founder of CredAll
Credit Democracy
Small businesses are finding it easier to afford working capital as the traditional practice of lending against assets is being replaced by loans based on information—cash flows digitally captured by tracking financial data. This is accelerating the formalisation of the Indian economy and a larger social transformation
Sustainable Fashion: Natural Cool
A new generation of designers is recycling waste fabric, making only what can be consumed, and reviving traditional skills. Sustainable fashion makes an indian statement
The Flag of Self-Respect
Changing the naval ensign is intrinsic to Narendra Modi’s larger project of removing the last traces of the colonial past
Sea Change
INS Vikrant is an important step towards a comprehensive naval policy that looks beyond deterring the Chinese threat in the Indian Ocean
Can Congress Be Saved?
The party has announced elections to its president’s post in a victory for the rebels whose ranks included Ghulam Nabi Azad till recently. All eyes are now on Rahul Gandhi in a test of his resolve not to contest
AAP: The Unravelling
Delhi’s liquor scam is the biggest but not the only crisis to have hit the AAP government. Across sectors, from education and health to largescale freebies, the Arvind Kejriwal regime faces charges of corruption, some of which even hark back to the early years of the party
Who Wants Salman Rushdie Killed?
Thirty-three years after the fatwa, the author of the Satanic Verses was grievously injured in an assassination attempt at a literary event in New York. The attack, by a 24-year-old man inspired by the forces unleashed by the late Ayatollah Khomeini, reminds the world how alive is the murderous fury of radical Islam against the freedom of ideas and imagination
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