Author name: Ananta Kar

Ananta is wrapping up her postgraduate studies in Comparative Literature whilst juggling a solid two-year writing career. She cut her teeth as a sports journalist before discovering her true passion: India's exploding gaming scene. These days, she's obsessed with how gaming culture is reshaping the country, and her academic research chops bring unexpected depth to every piece. Whether dissecting esports trends or exploring biologics in India, renewable energy, electric Vehicles & Smart Transportation topics, Ananta writes with the curiosity of a researcher and the energy of someone who genuinely loves what they do.

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From Cost Centre to Intelligence Engine: The Chatbot Revolution Reshaping Customer Support

What if every employee in your organisation wielded the computational power once reserved for elite data scientists, whilst customers never waited more than seconds for answers? This isn’t corporate fantasy—it’s measurable reality. Since 2015, AI chatbots have evolved from rudimentary query handlers into autonomous powerhouses that resolve up to 90% of routine enquiries without human […]

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The Invisible Concierge: How Agentic AI Is Rewriting Travel’s Post-Booking Playbook

Imagine booking a flight and never thinking about it again—no frantic web check-ins at midnight, no panicked hotel calls to confirm reservations, no desperate scrambles when cancellations strike. This isn’t aspirational futurism; it’s operational reality. Agentic artificial intelligence, capable of perceiving, reasoning, planning, and executing multi-step actions autonomously, is transforming travel’s historically friction-laden post-booking phase

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From Gatekeepers to Enablers: How AI Democratisation Is Unlocking India’s Financial Frontier

What if every employee in India’s financial sector wielded the same artificial intelligence tools once reserved for elite data scientists? This isn’t speculation—it’s reality. Non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) and banks are experiencing 34-40% productivity gains by making advanced AI accessible across entire organisations, mirroring ixigo‘s groundbreaking strategy of providing coding models, cutting-edge large language models,

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India’s Logistics Crossroads: Can Electric Economics Finally Dethrone Diesel’s Decades-Long Dominance?

The numbers tell a story diesel operators don’t want to hear: ₹2.5 per kilometre versus ₹3.5. Not close. Not competitive. Decisively cheaper. India’s electric three-wheelers have shattered the assumption that diesel’s infrastructure advantages and operational familiarity justify its costs. Across urban logistics networks—where predictable routes, frequent stops, and overnight downtime align perfectly with EV capabilities—the

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India’s Ev Dream vs Reality: Why State Policies Aren’t Delivering on Electric Mobility Promises

India’s electric vehicle revolution looks magnificent on paper. States proclaim bold targets, allocate crores in subsidies, and promise charging networks spanning highways and cities. Yet venture beyond glossy policy documents, and a different picture emerges—one where Maharashtra‘s ambitious 30% penetration target collides with a meagre 1.2% market share, where Delhi‘s charger density success remains confined

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India’s Grid Wasn’t Built for This: Why Ev Charging Is Breaking Distribution Networks Before They’re Ready

India’s electric vehicle revolution is racing ahead of the infrastructure meant to power it—and the cracks are starting to show in places most consumers never look. Buried in DISCOM annual reports, tariff petitions, and regulatory filings lies a sobering narrative: state electricity distribution companies are struggling to absorb EV charging load into networks designed decades

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India’s Ev Revolution Has a Hidden Achilles’ Heel: A Few Hundred Tonnes of Chinese Magnets

India’s electric vehicle dreams nearly ground to a halt in 2025 — not from battery shortages, charging infrastructure gaps, or even consumer hesitancy, but from something far smaller and more insidious: a few hundred tonnes of rare earth magnets. When China tightened export controls on neodymium-iron-boron materials that year, Indian automakers scrambled to revise production

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India’s Healthcare Cost Crisis: Why Insurers Are Betting Big on Prevention Over Cure

Every rupee Indian insurers spend today on preventive health screenings saves them three to four rupees in claims tomorrow—a mathematical reality transforming how the nation approaches healthcare economics. As medical inflation gallops ahead at 13% in 2025, amongst Asia’s steepest rates, insurers and corporate health planners face an existential choice: continue absorbing spiralling hospitalisation costs

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India’s Telehealth Boom: 340 Million Consultations, Yet Three-Quarters Vanish After 90 Days

India’s digital health revolution presents a curious paradox: platforms like eSanjeevani have delivered over 340 million consultations by early 2025, transforming healthcare access for millions who previously faced hours-long queues or inaccessible specialists. Urban adoption soars past 60%, whilst tier-2 and tier-3 cities accelerate at over 20% compound annual growth rates, painting a picture of

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India’s Ev Fleet Paradox: 29,000 Charging Stations That Can’t Talk to Each Other

Imagine arriving at a petrol station only to discover your vehicle’s fuel cap doesn’t fit their nozzle—absurd for conventional vehicles, yet precisely the predicament plaguing India’s electric fleet operators daily. Whilst the nation celebrates deploying 29,000+ charging stations towards its ambitious 30% EV adoption target by 2030, commercial operators face a frustrating reality: incompatible charging

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