Amit Raj Author, Learner and Trader

  The Sensex is often reduced to a number flashing on screens—green on good days, red on bad ones. But beneath those digits lies a far deeper story. The Sensex is not just a stock market index; it is a mirror of India’s aspirations, anxieties, reforms, crises, and resilience . This is the story of how India grew up—told through the rise, fall, and rebirth of the Sensex. 1979–1989: A Quiet Beginning in a Closed Economy In 1979, the Sensex was born with a base value of 100 , anchored to the financial year 1978–79. India at the time was inward-looking, heavily regulated, and cautious. Markets existed, but optimism was restrained. Investing was not a mass idea; it was a niche activity. By the mid-1980s, the Sensex hovered around 250–400 . The Rajiv Gandhi era brought early whispers of reform—technology imports, PSU listings, and a gentle broadening of the market. These were not dramatic years, but they planted seeds. The economy was warming up, even if it didn’t yet know how ...

  The journey of the Nifty from 26,373 to 25,065 was not a mere correction on a chart—it was a loud signal from a world drifting into coordinated uncertainty. Beneath the surface of candles and moving averages, global capital was already on the move, recalibrating risk in response to wars, tariff threats, tightening financial conditions, and widening policy divergence among central banks. What appeared to be a domestic market adjustment was, in reality, a manifestation of a far larger system—one where liquidity, geopolitics, and institutional positioning collide, often violently, long before the retail eye can register the shift. Markets no longer move in isolation. A fall in one geography today often whispers a warning to another tomorrow. The Nifty’s sharp rise to 26,373 and its subsequent retreat to 25,065 must therefore be read not as a standalone Indian market event, but as a node within a tightly wound global financial web—where wars distort energy prices, tariffs redra...