Author: Anjali Roongta

While the business landscape is rapidly changing in 2025, startups remain the backbone of the Indian economy. Are you too an aspirin entrepreneur looking for the next scalable idea? Here is a list of five startups for your multi-national company. Up and coming Sectors in 2025 While sustainable development is rooted in local climate and knowledge, the SDGs themselves prioritise global corporation and the role of financial institutions in our move towards an eco-friendly and fair trade world. While there are solutions like a sustainable marketplace as seen with Our Better Planet, for an MNC centric approach, an aspiring founder…

The latest addition to the MCU is Thunderbolts, which follows Bob aka The Sentry, a storied character in the Marvel Comics, especially with his power of a billion suns and the dark alter-ego The Void. Yet, in Thunderbolts, we see the Sentry not as an Invincible superhero or the next Iron Man, but as an individual struggling with loneliness, substance abuse, and delusions of grandeur, among other things. And we see another perspective on the isolation, lack of family and purpose that can cause in the character that opens the story for us- Yelena Boleva. And then we see The…

India is developing at a rapid pace, which is a great thing. Development promises better jobs, fewer inequalities, and better lives for everyone. Why then are there people protesting against this? All the trees cut in Goa, Andaman and Nicobar, and Mumbai, well, a similar number will be planted elsewhere, right? Except that doesn’t work. And if we aren’t careful, the flood in Bangalore won’t be the last. Pavements won’t be burning in Delhi alone. After all, the disturbance of ecological balance here cannot be mitigated or solved by planting trees in another ecosystem. At least, most of the time…

One of the trends that took the internet and news by storm in 2024 was underconsumption core, a new form of the popular de-influencing trend where people tired of seeing the excess of hauls and PR products that influencers promoted, decided to show what they thought of as “normal” consumption and how it had become “under-consuming” in today’s age. While the trend was West-centric, and found criticism such as extreme under consumption often became borderline- if not outright-unhealthy or how some were using it to glamourise poverty while still looking down on those with less means or even how this…