Anuj Gupta

For three years, a software engineer from Pune on assignment in London watched two deductions leave her payslip every month: one into the UK's National Insurance scheme, the other into India's Employees' Provident Fund back home, because her employer kept her enrolled in India's system even while she worked abroad. She would never draw a UK pension. Yet every month, roughly 15 per cent of her salary was set aside twice, once for a benefit she would use, once for one she never would. From July 2026, she keeps only one deduction. The other simply disappears.

Long after the whisky tariffs are forgotten, this deal will be remembered as the moment India stopped treating labour, environment, gender and corruption as diplomatic afterthoughts, and started writing them, on its own terms, into the deals it actually controls

Explore India's challenges in building a self-sufficient rare-earths ecosystem to support clean energy and advanced manufacturing ambitions.

How do you find common ground when people disagree? Opportunity builder Anuj Gupta and Visit Philadelphia CMO Neil Frauenglass discuss why democracy needs debate and why we all have more political power than we think. They explore whether society is divided or just disconnected, how local action makes a difference and what it takes to rebuild trust when we can't even agree on truth itself.(This conversation is part of “Idea Knock Down,” a series where two people with different perspectives take on big questions — one block at a time.)

India has emerged as a major investment destination, but much of the value generated by foreign companies still flows overseas through dividends, royalties and intellectual property payments. The column argues that India must move beyond being a manufacturing and consumption base by building globally competitive brands, proprietary technology and Indian-owned intellectual property.

August 25, 2026 / 13:06 IST Story continues below Advertisement The new GDP series introduced double deflation for manufacturing.

As industry comes forward with feedback from the ground, the consultations underscore an important lesson.

Public charging stations get most of the attention. But for millions of urban Indians, the more consequential question is whether they can charge a car where it spends the night.

India has undertaken massive economic reforms over the last decade. GST, insolvency reform, digital public infrastructure, corporate-tax rationalisation, production-linked incentives, labour-law consolidation, infrastructure investment and the expansion of digital government have fundamentally changed the Indian economy.

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