Anjali Rose Abraham

India built so many ethanol plants that it now makes more ethanol fuel than its cars can drink. Flex-fuel vehicles are the answer, and they are arriving faster than anyone expected. Here is something surprising: India spent a decade racing to make more ethanol, the alcohol-based fuel squeezed out of sugarcane and grain. It succeeded so well that the country now has a problem most nations would envy: more ethanol than the existing fleet of cars and bikes can actually burn. That one fact...

In May, two numbers crossed on a Bloomberg screen and changed the global ranking. Taiwan's stock market rose to about $4.95 trillion in total value, and passed India's $4.92 trillion. That made Taiwan the fifth-largest stock market in the world, behind only the United States, mainland China, Japan and Hong Kong. India, which used to hold fifth place, dropped to sixth. Here is the odd part. India's economy is worth about $4.15 trillion, more than four times the size of Taiwan's $977 billion...

A close look at Parag Parikh Flexi Cap Fund, what it owns, how it thinks, and why it has built lasting wealth for patient investors. Here is something most investors do not realise. When you put money into Parag Parikh Flexi Cap Fund, you are not just buying Indian stocks. You are also quietly becoming part owner of Google, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft. It is one of the very few Indian mutual funds that lets a regular investor invest in the world's biggest technology giants alongside Indian...