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Trying to highlight the economic growth story of India, its infrastructure and government policies and actions. We will feature critical as well as positive content in non-partisan manner, focussed on business, economics and politics as it related to these topics.

Articles & Op-Eds

Promoting Make in India
5 min

Often when the topic of manufacturing comes up in India, we also hear the word “screwdriver”. Derisively dismissing India’s manufacturing renaissance as screwdriver-giri is fashionable in academic circles. This is very wrong.

Indian Railways need fresh approach
4 min

Indian Railways face enormous challenges. While a lot has been done over the last ten years, the problems are so huge, much remains to be done. More than anything else, it needs fresh thinking.

Outward migration of HNWI
11 min

Recent articles have highlighted the increasing numbers of Indians leaving India for good - even giving up citizenship. Is this something worrying, new, getting worse?

PAN 2.0
3 min

A new PAN 2.0 project has been announced with much fanfare. What exactly is this?

News links

News links with brief comments. These links won't be archived as they represent 3rd party content and our main focus is on Op-Eds.

Direct Indigo flight to Penang - Indigo airlines has announced a direct Chennai/Penang link from 24 Dec 2024. PDF link.

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