The Three Clocks: A Material Theory of Indian Endurance
The historical record suggests that civilisations rarely collapse from a single blow; they fail when ecological limits, institutional weaknesses and technological shifts converge faster than their capacity to adapt. India’s strategic challenge is to…
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The Sherpa’s Dilemma: Why India’s BRICS Moment May Also Be Its Reckoning
Against the backdrop of growing internal divisions within BRICS, India is unlikely to be expelled from the grouping; the real risk is agenda capture, leaving India with formal leadership but little substantive influence.
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India’s Hydrogen Pivot: Reallocating Energy, Not Just Decarbonising Transport
India’s hydrogen mobility push, pilot bus and truck corridors, a now-operating hydrogen train, and a national electrolyser build-out, is easiest to misread as a climate initiative. The more useful reading treats it as a response to two arithmetic…
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The Tax-Free Cage: How India Engineered Its Own Outsourcing
Economist Sanjeev Sanyal has recently advanced a provocative explanation for Bengaluru’s emergence as India’s technology capital: the city’s rise was partly enabled by the exodus of entrepreneurial and technical talent from Kolkata during Jyoti Basu’s…
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