Economy

India's IPO wave has widened access to equity capital, but it has also made pricing noise harder to separate from business quality. This deep-dive explains how to read Indian listings through cash flows, governance, issue structure and valuation discipline.

India’s startup “slowdown” is not a simple winter story. Funding has become stricter, public-market discipline has returned, consolidation is accelerating, and a narrower new wave in AI, SaaS, fintech, climate and deeptech is taking shape.

India’s MSMEs are celebrated as the backbone of growth, but too many still spend more energy surviving slow payments, compliance friction and weak working capital than scaling production. The real fix is not one more slogan. It is better cash flow, smarter credit, lower friction and stronger clusters.

Mutual funds vs fixed deposits in India is no longer a lazy personal-finance comparison. Over 20 years, the data shows a clear return gap - but also a clear role for certainty, taxation, inflation protection, and investor behaviour.

India's green hydrogen push is finally moving from speeches to auctions. The real opportunity lies in refineries, fertilisers, steel and ports - not in a universal-fuel fantasy or instant export windfall