Long Reads

Shuttered factories, fewer workers and piling inventories are the fallout of the consumption slowdown in Coimbatore. The city, which supplies a bulk of the spare parts for automakers, has one of the highest densities of textile units in the world and meets more than 90% of the country’s wet grinder demand.

Fear and loathing in India’s small factories

9 min read . 09:23 AM IST

An isolation ward (left) at a hospital in Hyderabad to treat coronavirus cases; and (right) workers from the disease control department disinfect a residential area in Ruichang of Jiangxi province

How India must tackle China’s killer bug

9 min read . 27 Jan 2020

Between 2001 and 2011, Kerala added the highest number of census towns to its urban settlements (Photo: Shutterstock)

Why India has the fastest-growing cities

8 min read . 27 Jan 2020

Illustration: Jayachandran/Mint

Five life lessons from India’s Constitution

9 min read . 23 Jan 2020

A file photo of Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative Bank account holders protesting outside the Reserve Bank of India building in Mumbai. (Photo: Satyabrata Tripathy/Hindustan Times)

Just how safe is your bank deposit?

9 min read . 23 Jan 2020

Photo: Jayachandran/Mint

Why India faces a public funding crisis

7 min read . 22 Jan 2020

Retail food inflation climbed to 14% in December, the highest in six years. Given gross domestic product growth slowed down to just 5%, this has stoked fears of stagflation

Why food inflation may turn sticky

9 min read . 21 Jan 2020

The supermarket in the village sells staples at 20-60% markdown from the retail price (Photo: Melton John/Mint)

Inside India’s first corporate panchayat

10 min read . 20 Jan 2020

Samsung displayed its ‘artificial human’ called NEON (right), at the Consumer Electronics Show 2020 in Las Vegas. (Photo: Getty Images)

The age of artificial humans is here

10 min read . 16 Jan 2020

If equities reflect investor views about the economy, it seems the investing community is less hopeful about India than about the rest of the world. (Photo: Aniruddha Chowdhury/Mint)

What markets really seek from Budget 2020

10 min read . 16 Jan 2020

A model of the IBM Q System One quantum computer at the 2020 CES in Las Vegas, US. (Photo: Reuters)

Why India is falling behind in the Y2Q race

8 min read . 15 Jan 2020

Brent crude prices have risen by more than 30% in the past one year, while the rupee has slipped against the dollar.

Indian aviation flies into a perfect storm

10 min read . 14 Jan 2020

Technology is an opportunity, and in finance, it provides a direct link to profit as well. You can use it for good. But you can clearly use it for evil as well (Photo: Jayachandran/Mint)

Algos are changing India’s stock markets

10 min read . 13 Jan 2020

The unmaking of India’s fountain pens

9 min read . 09 Jan 2020

Paytm founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma is said to wield unrestrained power despite the presence of powerful investors such as Alipay, SoftBank and SAIF Partners (Photo: Bloomberg)

And now, Paytm faces its moment of truth

8 min read . 09 Jan 2020

Former Nissan Motor Co. and Renault SA chairman Carlos Ghosn—who has bushy eyebrows, elongated ears and prominent sideburns—would have a memorable face even as a regular citizen, but two decades of corporate celebrity meant that he was perhaps the most recognizable foreigner in Japan (Photo: Reuters)

Carlos Ghosn’s great escape from Japan

9 min read . 07 Jan 2020

The future appears bleak, given the lack of new investments, the rise of automation, the near stagnancy of manufacturing activity and a rising trend in hiring contract labour in the formal economy. (Photo: Bloomberg)

Why India’s labour is rejecting a new deal

9 min read . 06 Jan 2020

The conflict over a new capital for Andhra Pradesh is, after all, not merely a Naidu-Jagan tussle. It has much to do with the history of the region (Photo: Bloomberg)

Beyond Amaravati: Andhra’s capital games

10 min read . 05 Jan 2020

A terminal cancer patient with a caregiver at Shanti Avedna Sadan in New Delhi (Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint)

How India is failing those at the end of life

10 min read . 02 Jan 2020

The business of letting out rooms to unmarried couples by booking sites is a tectonic shift for Coimbatore where even star hotels would hesitate to admit unmarried couples (Photo: Bloomberg)

India’s hotel boom meets modern love

10 min read . 01 Jan 2020