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Bain Capital bet Rs 4,000 crore on gold. The RBI just walked all over it

Bain Capital bet Rs 4,000 crore on gold. The RBI just walked all over it

The regulator’s new rules that come into effect on 1 April undercut the country’s largest private-equity bet on gold-lending to date

31.03.2026 10

The Ken

Mutasim Khan

What does Razorpay know about agentic AI that OpenAI, Amazon, Ebay don’t?

The same week OpenAI rolled back its in-chat shopping agent, Razorpay launched what it called the biggest disruption to payments since UPI. But is it...

20.03.2026 10

The Ken

Mutasim Khan

Bengaluru’s fix for the water-tanker “mafia”: yet more tankers. What could go wrong?

Even as summer rolls around and demand for water begins to peak, Bengaluru isn’t embracing the public utility’s cheaper alternative to the private...

14.03.2026 20

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Mutasim Khan

The private-equity handbook for turning non-profit schools into cash cows

12.01.2026 50

The Ken

Mutasim Khan