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Business News > Mint Authors > Srinath Sridharan

Srinath Sridharan

ARTICLES BY SRINATH SRIDHARAN

AI is not a payment system and cannot be governed through a compulsory licensing regime.

AI is not UPI: Applying the same model could doom progress on AI

3 min read . 26 Jan 2026

India's goods and services tax (GST) is a transformative reform.

Reform cue: Quarterly GST payments could free up cash for small businesses

3 min read . 20 Jan 2026

It does not take a tragedy to occur for citizens to recognize that their time, safety, health and dignity hold limited institutional value. (AFP)

India’s development paradox: Overvalued assets, undervalued lives

3 min read . 08 Jan 2026

Fiat currencies don’t bear as much wishful thinking as stablecoins. (istockphoto)

Are stablecoins really redundant? Not if we separate signals from the noise

3 min read . 18 Dec 2025

IndiGo's employees became the public face of decisions they did not take and failures they did not design. (PTI)

The IndiGo fiasco should be a wake-up call for Indian corporate boards

3 min read . 08 Dec 2025

Daily market movements being treated as a national indicator of economic health, let alone social development, is too exaggerated a narrative.

Is the bizarre boom in India’s share bazaar a reflection of our follies?

4 min read . 20 Nov 2025

The next stage of digital finance in India will demand collective defence mechanisms, not isolated institutional responses. (istockphoto)

Strengthen security: Empower people to safeguard their money against cybercrime

4 min read . 06 Nov 2025

The thumb has become the Swiss Army knife of digital communication. (istockphoto)

Thumbs-up: An emoji that’s both a digital crutch and an everlasting puzzle

4 min read . 02 Oct 2025

In its most extreme form a cyber attack can drive a solvent company into insolvency.

JLR shock: Indian boards must make cyber attacks a bigger priority than AI

4 min read . 29 Sept 2025

By channelling the global appetite for crypto into instruments of its own sovereign debt, the US seeks to prolong its dominance of the financial world. (Bloomberg)

Digital cloud cover: America’s crypto embrace may be a debt sustainability ploy

4 min read . 15 Sept 2025

India thrives on noise, and also suffers for it. (istockphoto)

Noisy urban life: Peace and quiet is a luxury few of us can afford

4 min read . 04 Sept 2025

Alaska seems to have been chosen as the summit venue to flatter US President Donald Trump’s peace ambitions while giving Russian President Vladimir Putin a platform to play the statesman. (REUTERS)

World in flux: The Alaska summit was high theatre but also highly revealing

4 min read . 19 Aug 2025

It is tempting to reach for the regulatory hammer. Yet, what we need first is the clarity of better lenses to see what these models truly are.

Outrage over AI is pointless if we’re clueless about AI models

4 min read . 24 Jul 2025

In a world obsessed with polishing flaws out of existence, humour gently insists it is alright to be human. (istockphoto)

Humour can’t save the world but deserves a chance anyway

4 min read . 17 Jul 2025

It's hard to imagine a promoter in Corporate India approving even a tenth of Meta’s figure for a single hire in AI. (REUTERS)

AI leadership costs money: Will Indian companies pay for talent?

4 min read . 11 Jul 2025

Somewhere between the rise of emotional vocabulary and the decline of language vocabulary, the inculcation of discipline is now confused with inducing stress. (istockphoto)

Parenting GenZ: An exercise in exasperation that can’t be given up

4 min read . 03 Jul 2025

The US has long used military force not only to pursue security objectives, but also to safeguard its access to resources such as oil, gas and rare minerals. (AFP)

Dual-use warfare: The military-industrial complex is out in the open now

4 min read . 23 Jun 2025

The US–Pakistan relationship has long been a case study in diplomatic cynicism.

The US is making a dangerous Pakistan bet by trading principles for expediency

4 min read . 20 Jun 2025

This is Iran’s gravest moment since the brutal eight-year war with Iraq in the 1980s. (AP)

Israel-Iran conflict: Echoes of history haunt West Asia

4 min read . 16 Jun 2025

In effect, RBI has declared that the liquidity bridge has been built. (REUTERS)

Has RBI unleashed its arsenal too soon for the economy?

4 min read . 08 Jun 2025