From Notes to Nodes: How the Digital Rupee (e ₹) Could Redefine

Money India’s financial system has been quietly moving toward a digital future for years now. From mobile wallets to UPI transfers, cashless transactions have become second nature to most of us. But the Digital Rupee, India’s own Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), takes this transformation a step further. What exactly is the Digital Rupee? The…

India’s Growth Missing Ingredient: A Culture of Competition Among States

Lee Kuan Yew once warned, “What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work.” For Singapore, embracing hard-edged competition, rewarding performance, and building clean, durable institutions became the country’s central strategy at a moment when almost every indicator suggested the young nation might fail. That mixture…

Citizen’s manifestoFor 2026 local body elections

By Mitra Mission As the Pune Municipal Corporation elections approach, the think tank ‘MITRA MISSION’ hasundertaken a comprehensive and scientific study mission to understand the exact nature of civicproblems in various parts of the city. Instead of relying solely on paper plans, representatives ofthe organisation went directly on the ground to conduct in-depth inspections of…

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