South Asia
Nearly a quarter of humanity lives here, and its politics, economy, and climate risk are recalibrating in real time. From India’s technology ambitions to the fragile peace holding a nuclear-armed border, the scale alone makes this impossible to ignore.
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Aug- 2026 -12 AugustCapital
India’s cheapest phones are disappearing. Memory costs made them unbuildable.
The sub-$100 segment collapsed 74.3% in Q2 2026 as DRAM and NAND prices quadrupled, pushing average selling prices to a record $315 and locking out hundreds of millions of first-time…
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10 AugustTech & AI
India is redefining what makes a platform a publisher
The government argues Meta's algorithmic recommendations constitute active publishing, a legal theory that could strip safe-harbour immunity from every ranked service operating in the country.
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10 AugustCapital
India’s $41 billion currency trick is reshaping how Asia defends reserves
The Reserve Bank of India pulled in $41 billion through a subsidised deposit window by July 31, setting a benchmark for incentive-based defense that other central banks are now copying—but…
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10 AugustPower
Maldives and Bangladesh can’t fix SAARC’s India-Pakistan veto
On July 26, President Muizzu offered to mediate the bloc's revival, but the consensus rule that governs SAARC gives either rival state effective power to block any summit.
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8 AugustSociety
The young Indians who stopped trusting their institutions
After forcing the education minister to resign over exam leaks, India's youth movement has broadened into a sustained challenge to institutional credibility that the government is trying to suppress with…
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8 AugustSociety
The young Indians who forced a minister to resign aren’t stopping
India's Cockroach Janta Party has positioned itself as a permanent pressure group on Modi's government, with nearly three years until the next election to test whether digital mobilization can sustain…
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5 AugustEarth
A Super El Niño is arriving on a warmer planet. The worst is still months away.
The World Meteorological Organization projects sea-surface temperature anomalies will exceed 2.9°C above normal by October, amplified by a simultaneous positive Indian Ocean Dipole that reshapes drought and flood risk across…
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4 AugustSociety
The young Indians who made Modi’s government listen
A youth-led satire movement called the Cockroach Janta Party forced Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation in July, signalling that digital-native protests can now move India's government.
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4 AugustCapital
Qantas is quietly building two labor strategies at once
The airline is hiring 400 tech roles in Adelaide while exploring a deal to move 1,000 back-office jobs to India by year-end, signaling a restructuring play investors may reward but…
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4 AugustSociety
Indian job seekers trafficked to Southeast Asia face systematic torture in scam compounds
A multi-nation investigation found that young men lured from nine Indian states are enslaved in Myanmar and Cambodia, forced to run fraud operations generating up to $114 billion in annual…
