I am delighted to bring you the June 2026 edition of India’s World, on Indian business going global. If you are wondering what business has to do with foreign policy, turn the pages.
Indian business is abroad now in a way it has never quite been before, buying steel mills and luxury car brands, refining other nations’ crude, parking its capital in Singapore, Mauritius, and the Netherlands.
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I grew up in the High Range of Kerala, in Idukki, the same district as Munnar, where tea covers the hills in neat green rows for as far as you can see. As a child, I was amazed by its breathtaking green beauty. Yet I was never really a tea person in my early years. Our drink at home was steaming hot black coffee with cardamom pods, both grown at home, and a piece of palm jaggery.
The past reputation of the Indian tea industry cannot protect it from structural changes