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Analysis: Tamil Nadu Heads For Dravidian Shakeout After Assembly Poll Verdict
The only word that might connect all these forces competing today but shifting loyalties tomorrow in an uneasy coalition is the adjective"Dravidian".
- Sunday May 3, 2026
- India News
- Written by Madhavan Narayanan
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Opinion | Nearly 10,000 Layoffs In 2025: Why Are Indian Startups On A Firing Spree?
In an age where trendy co-working office spaces have replaced humble garages as startup symbols, the current slump is best seen as a mirror to show some deeper realities.
- Friday February 27, 2026
- Opinion
- Madhavan Narayanan
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Opinion | The Great Claude Shakeout: What You, A 'Techie', Must Do To Stay Relevant
As the AI genie arrives to do big tasks on the fly, the cyber coolie gets hurt.
- Monday February 9, 2026
- Opinion
- Madhavan Narayanan
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Opinion | Amazon Layoffs, And Lessons From A Late Bihar Treasurer
No boom is useful if your skills do not match up, and any boom is good if you can reinvent yourself, building on what you can do and adapting to a new environment.
- Saturday November 1, 2025
- Opinion
- Madhavan Narayanan
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Opinion | Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Is Right About Bengaluru. But The Solution Is Elsewhere
In the language of IT, Bengaluru's traffic issues began with a bandwidth problem, and were compounded by the fact that infrastructure did not drive growth but had to catch up for it.
- Friday October 24, 2025
- Opinion
- Madhavan Narayanan
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Opinion | India-Pak Asia Cup Row: War, Minus The Shooting
George Orwell called sport "War Minus The Shooting" in an essay on sporting spirit, where he said that competitive sports trigger intense nationalistic rivalries and aggression. I am just wondering if that could be called "War PLUS the shooting" now.
- Wednesday October 1, 2025
- Opinion
- Madhavan Narayanan
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Opinion | In Musk vs Altman, The Winner Might Just Be A Third Guy - Of Indian Roots
Is the tail trying to wag the dog to build Aravind Srinivas's Perplexity? Or is it because the "other giants" in this tech race like to lift a David on their shoulders to fight a Goliath like ChatGPT?
- Monday August 18, 2025
- Opinion
- Madhavan Narayanan
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Blog | Sky-High Rent, Choked Roads: How Bengaluru, Mumbai, Delhi Became India's Chaos Capitals
Your office may be cool and your home furnishings plush, but there is little you can do about the confusion outside.
- Thursday July 24, 2025
- Opinion
- Madhavan Narayanan
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Opinion | Gurugram And Its 'Manhattan' Dreams: Fake It Till You Flood It
While news pages are moaning about waterlogged roads in the city, there is a builder boldly advertising, in a newspaper jacket, "luxe suites" in an imaginatively titled "South of Gurugram".
- Friday July 11, 2025
- Opinion
- Madhavan Narayanan
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Opinion | To Understand Musk-Trump Splitsville, You Must Look At Mamdani
To understand the peculiar three-way conflict involving Trump, Musk, and Mamdani, you have to understand what makes America prosperous and yet the Average Joe or Jane unhappy.
- Thursday July 3, 2025
- Opinion
- Madhavan Narayanan