Dipak Gupta

Six weeks into India's first rainfall derivative, the numbers have more to say than the launch-day press release did

The strongest El Niño signal appears in the rural economy; market outcomes are often shaped by more powerful forces

Every major industrial power has relied on long-duration strategic capital. If India insists on pure market competition, the playing field will remain inherently asymmetric

Job losses, reduced asset values, increased inflation can have many long term impacts on the morale and the social fabric that will be hard to predict