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This edition will be the biggest yet, and will also introduce the "Smart Investor Arena" - a segment of the summit where conversations will focus on matters concerning investors' personal finances

What makes these risks dangerous is not only their existence, but the ease with which institutions can ignore them when they are difficult to measure, explain or fit into established categories

The real test of a system is not whether it can prevent every disruption. It is whether it has enough buffers, flexibility and institutional capacity

Healthy systems do not just impose, regulate or command. They also listen, learn and adjust before feedback becomes breakdown

Opening the door creates opportunity, show these pieces. But what happens beyond it depends on the capability to walk through

These pieces show that intentions matter, but transmission decides what survives the journey from policy, price or principle to the real world

Liberalisation brought a flood of international brands into India, but failed to help create a global brand from within the country

It is a myth that a firm needs a corporate office in a high-rise in a major city like Chennai or Bengaluru, Kumar says. The Milky Mist corporate office sits directly above factory in a rural setting

Just about 38% of BSE 500 stocks have delivered positive returns in the past year

Today's Best of BS Opinion weighs GCC expansion, liquor prohibition, jobs and growth, corporate India, and India's economic roadmap

Even geopolitical orders survive in the habits of people long after the world around them has changed. The difficult part is recognising the shift early enough to manage it

Saran says that India must shore up relations in its neighbourhood before it can aim for global leadership and that it must not succumb to pressure from the United States

Raamdeo Agrawal, cofounder and chairman of Motilal Oswal Financial Services talks about how reforms changed the equity culture in India

Cumulative spending on R&D was just $7.2 bn in FY26, against $61 bn spent by Alphabet alone in 2025

Constraints force priorities, expose weak assumptions and reward systems that learn to work within limits rather than pretend those limits do not exist

Leverage is rarely absolute. Markets adjust, institutions push back, capabilities matter, and pressure can produce resistance instead of compliance

Just seven states accounted for nearly 82% of all FDI equity inflows to India from January 2000 to March 2026

The real test is not whether a system can reach the next milestone. It is whether it can manage what comes after

The BSE Sensex has fallen 6.8% since the end of September 2025, with its trailing P/E multiple down 10.8%

Power lasts only when the underlying institutions are credible