At a fintech conference in February, Razorpay showed a demo.

A user ordered food on Zomato by voice and paid — without opening a checkout page or a UPI app. No friction and no redirects. Just a job done end-from-end.

The same week, OpenAI quietly rolled back its own in-chat shopping agent.

Razorpay is calling this the biggest disruption to payments since UPI. But agentic commerce raises questions that a demo can't answer — around trust, fraud, consent, and who's liable when an AI spends your money.

Is India ready for that? Is anyone?

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A cartoon reposted. An account restricted. A takedown notice with no warning and no appeal.

India's new IT rules give platforms three hours to remove flagged content — the shortest window anywhere in the world. But a draft amendment published last month could go even further, potentially treating anyone who posts about current affairs as a publisher. Without the protections that come with it.

For millions of creators, anonymous users, and global tech platforms, the stakes just got harder to ignore.

The deadline to push back is April 14th.

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India's civil aviation ministry issued two directives this March that pulled in opposite directions. First, it mandated full refunds for cancelled flights. Three days later, it removed all caps on airfares. The trigger for the second move: the US-Israeli war against Iran has sent jet fuel prices soaring, up nearly 60% in the US, and India is bracing for the impact.

Airlines, already running on thin margins, are warning that fares will rise.

For Indian flyers, the net result is this: cancellations just got free but flights just got more expensive.

How did we get here?

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