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India's Semiconductor Mission: Two Years In, Here Is the Honest Progress Report

The Tata-PSMC Dholera fab timeline, Micron's Sanand assembly and test reality versus announcement, the design ecosystem gap that fabs alone cannot close, and the talent pipeline question that no press release has answered.

Site Admin · May 16 · 2m

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India's Demographic Dividend Has a Deadline. The 2047 Calculations That Should Alarm Planners.

Working-age population peak projections, skill gap analysis from the NSSO, and the education and employment infrastructure investment required to convert the next fifteen years of demographic tailwind into durable GDP growth.

Site Admin · May 14 · 2m

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The Urban Heat Island Effect Is Now a Public Health Emergency in Indian Cities

Wet-bulb temperature data from Delhi, Hyderabad, and Ahmedabad, mortality correlation studies, the specific infrastructure interventions (cool roofs, urban forests, reflective pavements) with the strongest evidence base, and which cities are actually implementing them.

Site Admin · May 8 · 2m

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India's Startup Funding Winter: Which Sectors Are Actually Recovering and Which Are Not

Q1-Q3 2025 deal count and ticket size data across fintech, SaaS, D2C, and deep tech — separated from the aggregate numbers that obscure the sectoral divergence. The specific metrics VCs are using to filter in 2025 versus 2021.

Site Admin · May 1 · 2m

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India's UPI Goes Global: The Geopolitics of Real-Time Payment Infrastructure Exports

The twelve countries now connected to UPI, the SWIFT displacement narrative and its limits, RBI's regulatory diplomacy, and what the internationalisation of Indian payment rails means for dollar-denominated transaction system dominance.

Site Admin · May 1 · 2m

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The Caste Data Gap: Why India's Last Socioeconomic Census Was in 1931 and Why That Matters

The political economy of caste enumeration, what the 2021 census delay means for welfare targeting, the Bihar and Karnataka state-level data that has leaked into public debate, and the Supreme Court cases forcing the Union's hand.

Site Admin · Apr 18 · 2m

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The Supreme Court's AI Docket: The Five Cases That Will Define Technology Law in India

From personality rights and deepfake liability to algorithmic discrimination and automated government decision-making — the cases before the Indian courts that will establish precedent across the entire AI regulatory landscape.

Site Admin · Apr 18 · 2m

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India's AI Regulatory Framework: What the Draft Bill Actually Means

Line-by-line analysis of India's proposed AI governance legislation — which clauses mirror the EU AI Act and which diverge critically.

Site Admin · Apr 4 · 2m

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India's PLI Scheme: Two Years of Manufacturing Data and What the Numbers Actually Show

Sectoral production output, employment generation versus targets, and the subsidy efficiency ratios that tell a more complicated story than the government's headline figures suggest.

Site Admin · Apr 1 · 2m

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RBI's Digital Rupee Expansion: Early Adoption Data and What It Reveals

Transaction volume analytics, merchant adoption barriers, and the monetary policy implications of India's CBDC at scale.

Site Admin · Mar 29 · 2m

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India's Gig Economy Regulation: What the Supreme Court Case Could Change for 15 Million Workers

The constitutional questions at stake, comparator legislation from the EU and California, and the platform economics that will determine whether regulatory compliance is viable without price increases.

Site Admin · Mar 20 · 2m

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India's Startup Winter Is Over. Here's What the Data Shows.

Series A velocity, unicorn pipeline health, and the sectoral shifts in venture capital allocation that signal renewed momentum.

Site Admin · Mar 13 · 2m

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The Satellite Internet Race: Starlink, OneWeb, and India's GSAT-N2 Compared

Latency benchmarks, rural penetration data, regulatory licensing timelines, and the geopolitical implications of who controls low-orbit broadband infrastructure across the Global South.

Site Admin · Mar 8 · 2m

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