Dr. (Prof.) T.S. Somashekar is the Director, Centre for Competition and Regulation, NLSIU I. Background An inescapable part of our lives is the way AI influences daily activities, directly or indirectly, in incredibly diverse ways, with enormous implications for productivity across sectors and for direct consumer benefit. The pace of technological evolution is rapid in this segment, and tech firms are quickly adjusting their strategies to retain or enhance their

Prof. Alberto Heimler is a Retired Professor of Economic Regulation, National School of Government, Rome Over the past decade, a handful of digital platforms have come to play an extraordinary role in our economic and social lives. Google shapes how we search for information, Apple controls major mobile ecosystems, Amazon has transformed retail, and Meta’s platforms have become essential tools of communication for billions of people. Their success has brought enormous benefit

Manas Kumar Chaudhuri is a Senior Partner at Khaitan & Co LLP. The evolution of competition law in India (the Competition Act, or the Act) has been slow, and at times surprising, even now — despite the Act having come into being in early 2003. The reasons for the slower development of the jurisprudence are briefly summarised below. As soon as the Act received the assent of the President of India, a writ petition was filed by a private litigant against the composition and stru