Guarding the Grain
Every new check on India’s ration system was meant to stop theft. None was designed to ask who gets turned away when it fails.
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Nandita Abraham
Founding Dean | BITS Design School, Mumbai
Economy Policy And Society
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Who Was the School Day Built For?
India’s school system was built to educate at scale. Its classrooms, exams and incentives reveal what that design rewards—and the individual child it struggles to see.
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Nandita Abraham
Founding Dean | BITS Design School, Mumbai
Who Was India's Healthcare Built For?
India has spent eight decades bringing healthcare within reach. But roads, trust, gender and the freedom to be sick still determine who can actually use it.
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Nandita Abraham
Founding Dean | BITS Design School, Mumbai
India looks stable. But trust is becoming conditional
A generation of Indians appears to be shifting from inherited faith in institutions to a running audit of their performance. That change could outlast any government—and reshape the risks facing anyone making long-term bets on the country.
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Arjo Basu
Systems thinker & technologist | Entrepreneur
Reform 3.0: What Has to Change
India doesn’t need another reform agenda. It needs an economy that makes building, hiring, and growing easier.
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Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
Reform 3.0: Why India Keeps Missing the Mountain
India didn’t falter for lack of ideas or ambition. It faltered because too many parts of its economy were never aligned toward the outcome that mattered most—productive work at scale.
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Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
The System China Built, and India Has Yet to Understand
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G Venkat Raman
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences | Indian Institute of Management, Indore
·Development & State Capacity
India Is Asking the Wrong Question About AI
Why India’s AI moment will be decided less by models—and more by how intelligence is applied, governed, and trusted
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Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
·Development & State Capacity
Trendspotting 2026: India Cannot App Its Way to Prosperity
Another 50 tech IPOs won’t build a middle class
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Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
·Development & State Capacity
Between Jugaad and Destiny: India’s Missing Medium Term
Why a civilisation that thinks in eternity still struggles to plan in decades
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Ajay Chacko
Director | Keya Foods International
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