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The AI Shock May Make Indian IT’s Best Firms Harder to Replace

AI is killing the easy part of outsourcing. But the harder part of enterprise AI — integration, governance, regulated deployment and accountability — is exactly where TCS, Infosys, HCLTech and Wipro still have leverage.

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Blackstone’s Horizon IPO Is Really a Test of India’s Warehouse Valuation Boom

Horizon Industrial Parks has the right sector, the right sponsor and the right tenants. What it does not yet have is the clean, seasoned, yield-machine profile that public investors usually associate with Blackstone’s India real-estate listings.

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India’s Dollar Subsidy Machine

New Delhi is not merely defending the rupee. It is creating a state-sponsored trade in which banks, PSUs, NRIs and global bond funds are being paid — directly or indirectly — to import dollars into India.

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HCLTech’s Sarvam Bet Is Not About AI Hype. It Is About the End of Easy Labour Arbitrage.

India’s IT-services giants are still profitable, still global, and still indispensable. But AI is beginning to price the one risk they spent three decades avoiding: what happens when clients need fewer engineers to buy the same software outcome?

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The State Can Lend to MSMEs. It Still Can’t Capitalise Them.

ECLGS 5.0 proves India can move crisis credit at speed; the SRI Fund shows why patient growth capital still misses the ordinary MSME

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The Election Machine Business: India’s Political Consultants Now Have a P&L Problem

I-PAC’s Bengal and Tamil Nadu setbacks have not punctured demand for political consultants. They have exposed a more uncomfortable truth: India’s ₹1,500-crore-plus election-consulting market is selling enterprise-grade political infrastructure with the disclosures, controls and cash-flow discipline of an informal services bazaar.

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Private Equity’s New Lesson Plan: Turn India’s Schools Into Platform Assets

After edtech’s bust, investors have found a harder-to-cancel education product: the fee-paying school. Gurgaon shows how K12 Techno, Lighthouse Learning and global buyout capital are turning classrooms, teacher systems, parent trust and fee flows into India’s next private-market roll-up — and why the model’s weakest link may be the teacher.

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The Rupee’s Real Problem Is Not Oil. It Is That India Is Failing to Retain Patient Capital.

India is still attracting headline FDI. But too much of it is being offset by exits, repatriation and outward investment, leaving the rupee exposed when oil, US rates and geopolitics turn hostile.