Masthead

Qhaat is a daily desk on Indian commerce. We compile what moved in retail, ecommerce, supply chain, payments, web platforms, and SaaS — then we say what we think it means for the shop floor.

A haat is a market that happens whether or not a marketplace app exists. The Q is the modern clock: UPI, dark stores, GST invoices, a 10-minute promise. We write in that tension.

We do not pretend to be a wire. Stories are reported from the public record and filed with an opinion you can argue with. If you only want a headline, the briefing is six items. If you want a fight, open the desk's view.

The reader is a category manager at 8:12am, a D2C founder before a board call, a 3PL planner, a payments person watching festive authorisation. Not a general news browser. We write for people who can lose money if they miss a DMart capex note or a Blinkit inventory shift.

Publisher: Qhaat, New Delhi. First edition: 19 August 2026. Language: English (India). The morning book is filed around 6:00 IST. Corrections go through the masthead — we amend the story, we don't bury it.

The book

RetailShop floor
EcommerceThe cart
Supply ChainThe mile
PaymentsThe rail
PlatformsThe stack
SaaSThe tools

Who files

Ananya Rao
Editor
Runs the desk from Delhi. Previously covered consumer and marketplaces for a decade.
Kabir Menon
Payments correspondent
Writes the rail: UPI, credit, merchant acquiring, and the software that sits on top.
Meera Iyer
Retail correspondent
Kirana, DMart, Reliance, and whatever a ten-minute promise does to a shop floor.
Farhan Qureshi
Supply chain correspondent
Warehouses, line-haul, 3PLs, and the economics of the last mile.
Rhea Kapoor
Platforms & SaaS
The unglamorous stack: marketplaces, ONDC, billing, OMS, and mid-market software.
The Desk
Editorial
Unsigned notes from Qhaat's morning meeting.