India’s AI Growth Needs More Than Just Metropolitan Hubs By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad Large urban centres are...
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By Amit Kapoor and Ananya Khurana While the Green Revolution made Indian farms more productive, the next revolution must...
By Amit Kapoor, Pradeep Puri and Ananya Khurana Re-architecting FCI to Raise Farm Incomes India created the Food Corporation...
By Amit Kapoor & Sheen Zutshi The Economic Survey 2025–26 marks a significant moment in how India understands its...
By Amit Kapoor and Anandita Doda AI as an economic story, not a tech story: where India is strong,...
By Amit Kapoor and Inputs by Meenakshi Ajith The Unfinished Promise of Agglomeration India’s Economic Survey this year makes...
By Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith The easiest way to misread a trade negotiation is to treat it as...
By Amit Kapoor and Ananya Khurana The Union Budget of 2026–27 deserves credit for recognising a simple truth that...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad Detailed, extensive, and honest – that is how the 2025-26 Economic Survey described...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad In the 21st century, sovereignty is not merely political. It is digital, and...
Sustaining multilateralism when the US steps back In recent times, global governance has become increasingly vulnerable to domestic political...
From Growth to Grit: Competitiveness as Kartavya The Union Budget 2026–27 does something unusual. It elevates competitiveness, rather than...
By Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith Extreme weather events in India are no longer deviations from the norm; they...
By Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith Sanitation reform in Indian cities has delivered visible gains, yet its deepest challenge...
By Amit Kapoor and Subashini Prakash Indian farmers stand at a curious crossroads, earning income from carbon credits not...
Missing Inflexion Point: India’s limited corporate R&D presence in the world As the global economy in uncertain times continues...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad Skilled labour, digital infrastructure, access to critical minerals, R&D investment, scalable capacity, and...
By Amit Kapoor and Amitabh Kant Innovation is the fundamental driver for economic prosperity, and the work of this...
Climate vulnerabilities, the lived realities on the ground: A Case of Bihar Floods The climate upheavals of 2025 were...
By Amit Kapoor and Richard Dasher India is now becoming an unusually crowded graveyard of airlines. From Kingfisher, Jet...
By Amit Kapoor and Richard Dasher with Inputs from Meenakshi Ajith India has become a graveyard of airlines. From...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad Ever since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, AI usage in India has...
By Amit Kapoor and Pradeep Puri and Inputs by Ananya Khurana India proudly delivers free rice and wheat to...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad AI has woven itself into the way we write, think, and work. Open...
By Amit Kapoor and Subashini Prakash For most of the digital age, the law treated identity as a security...
By Amit Kapoor and Pradeep Puri with Inputs from Ananya Khurana India’s fertiliser subsidy has long weighed heavily on...
By Amit Kapoor and Mukul Anand Lessons from the G20 Global Inequality Report Widening disparities in income and wealth...
By Amit Kapoor and Darshana Gauratra A decade after the Paris Agreement was adopted, climate ambition has reached its...
Amit Kapoor with Inputs from Meenakshi Ajith India’s cities are expanding upward, outward, and into new forms of daily...
Amit Kapoor and Pradeep Puri and inputs from Meenakshi Ajith India’s Aviation Crisis Is a Systemic Signal, Not an...
By Amit Kapoor and Sheen Zutshi A Mountain Range on Trial: The Aravalllis Story We’re Erasing The Aravalli range,...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad Privacy is increasingly becoming an illusion in today’s digital era. Breaches of privacy...
From Lab to Land: Rethinking GM Crop Adoption in India This year’s Nobel laureates in Economics affirm that innovation...
By Amit Kapoor and Pradeep Puri (with Inputs from Ananya Khurana) Seeds of Change: Tracing the Global Roots and...
India needs a new accounting system beyond GDP capturing AI’s impact to ensure fair growth AI is rewriting the...
by Amit Kapoor and Anandita Doda Moving Up the Value Chain: How Quality, Design, and Branding Can Transform India’s...
Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith For those of us who live in Delhi-NCR, every winter is now a déjà...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad Alchemy, a pseudo-science preceding chemistry attracted the attention of numerous people for quite...
by Amit Kapoor and Ananya Khurana As India stands at a pivotal juncture in agricultural trade to unlock the...
By Amit Kapoor The Promise and Precarity of India’s Gig Economy The gig economy is no longer a fringe,...
By Amit Kapoor is Honorary Chairman, Institute for Competitiveness and Saurabh Garg is Secretary, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation,...
“Crumbling Cities, Powerless Councils: India’s Urban Governance Crisis” Urban infrastructure nationwide is under increasing strain. Cities, once viewed as...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad One of Delhi’s most notable policy initiatives to address its pollution problem is...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad AI startups are growing rapidly and attracting a growing share of market investment....
By Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith The wheel wasn’t invented for decoration. Neither was the bridge, the book, or...
By Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith From Big Four to Big Ideas: India Must Rewrite the Consulting Rulebook A...
By Amit Kapoor Why FLN Matters Now More Than Ever As India charts its path towards a Viksit Bharat...
Hedging Climate Risks in India’s Agrifood System As the global population races toward 9.7 billion by 2050, the pressure...
By Amit Kapoor and Sheen Zutshi Addressing India’s cognitive time bomb: Learning deficit in the age of AI Global...
By Amit Kapoor and Nabha Joshi Agglomeration Without Planning: Lessons from Gurugram’s Urban Development Crisis In just three decades,...
By Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith The climate crisis in India no longer announces itself as isolated events; it...
By Amit Kapoor and inputs from Nabha Joshi Agglomeration Without Planning: Why Gurugram and Kolkata Demand Climate-Smart Cities As...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad One of the most contentious policies of the Trump administration was just announced:...
Devolving for a Greener Future: A Landmark Opportunity for the XVI Finance Commission Amit Kapoor and Koyel Kumar Mandal...
Beyond Familiar Hazards: The Next Wave of Urban Climate Risks The story of cities and climate change is often...
Look within, not outside: Rethinking India’s Diaspora Obsession Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith Every Independence Day in India prompts...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad The advent of agentic AI, one of the latest innovations in artificial intelligence,...
What India Needs to Keep Its Infrastructure Momentum In an economy with infrastructure needs as vast and varied as...
By Amit Kapoor and Amitabh Kant The Supreme Court’s NTBCL Judgment and the PPP Landscape in India: A Moment...
Amit Kapoor & Praveen Senthil In its interim order dated July 4th, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)...
Here’s the Anti-Christ. / Presenting the Third Anti-Christ Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith History’s tyrants conquered the world through armies and empires....
The Illusion of Inclusion: The Silent Crisis in Foundational Learning in India The latest Economic Survey of India reported...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad In a move that could reshape how Indians engage with AI, OpenAI has...
By Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith Fear vs. Flow: Can Indian cities still be engines of migration? For decades,...
By Amit Kapoor and Inputs from Meenakshi Ajith Reforming Multilateralism: A Now-or-Never Moment Following the two world wars’, the...
India’s Clean-Tech Leap: Building a Future Ready Manufacturing Ecosystem As India charts its journey towards becoming Viksit Bharat by...
By Amit Kapoor and Anandita Doda As the global clean tech and digital industries surge forward, rare earth elements...
By Amit Kapoor and Ankita Nigham India’s service sector, hailed as the ‘Old War Horse’ in the Economic Survey...
Empowering India’s Youth Through Data-Driven Skill Development By Amit Kapoor and Atul Tiwari India is currently endowed with a...
The article / Visualisation was published with India Today in the issue dated July 28, 2025. Download the complete...
By Amit Kapoor and Mukul Anand India’s Biomanufacturing Ambition Hinges on Bridging Its Talent and Innovation Gaps The defining...
Between Agglomeration and Deglomeration In Urban Economics, ‘Agglomeration’ is the stuff of dreams. When firms, workers, and ideas cluster...
Can India’s ₹1 Lakh Crore R&D Credit Scheme Boost Global Competitiveness? By Amit Kapoor and Inputs by Anandita Doda...
Amit Kapoor, Atul Tiwari and Mukul Anand As India navigates the demands of the global knowledge economy, the integration...
By Amit Kapoor Meenakshi Ajith For decades, globalization drove Asia’s meteoric rise, transforming it into the manufacturing engine of...
Servicing Next-Gen Agriculture By Amit Kapoor and Ananya Khurana The Economic Survey of India 2024-25 boldly portrays agriculture as...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad AI is advancing at an unprecedented pace, and the fear of large-scale job...
India’s Tier-2 Cities: Will Growth be Planned or Panicked? The geography of opportunity in India is slowly shifting. Tier-2...
Why Competitiveness Must Drive India’s Next Decade In this era of the great structural rewiring, competitiveness is the real...
By Amit Kapoor and Mukul Anand Every tale of rapid economic growth carries within it a quiet and yet...
Urbanising the Blue Way For too long, cities have treated water as either scenery or sewage but never as...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad Humans crave comfort and often more than we admit. Since the earliest days...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad Long-run economic growth hinges on technological progress, a core insight of Robert Solow’s...
Amit Kapoor and Praveen Senthil The criteria used to measure economic development are never static. As global discourse continues the...
By Amit Kapoor, Pradeep Puri and Ananya Khurana As the world is shifting its attention to sustainable agriculture, millets are gaining...
By Amit Kapoor, Pradeep Puri and Ananya Khurana Intensive paddy cultivation in India has long supported millions of livelihoods,...
By Amit Kapoor, Pradeep Puri and Ananya Khurana India is ambitiously treading on the path to sustainability with an...
North‑Eastern Region’s Transformation: A Strategic Key for India’s Vision for a Developed Country Northeastern Region (NER) accounts for 7.97...
Amit Kapoor, Pradeep Puri and Ananya Khurana India is ambitiously treading on the path to sustainability with an aim...
By Amit Kapoor, Pradeep Puri and Ananya Khurana The Indian agriculture sector is at a crucial juncture. Intensive paddy...
By Amit Kapoor, Pradeep Puri and Ananya Khurana Indias Millet Moment: A Holistic Shift from Paddy to Sustainability As...
by Amit Kapoor and Inputs from Mukul Anand Over the past seven years, income inequality in India’s labour market...
By Amit Kapoor Every city dweller has witnessed it: the small mounds of waste collected in corners, plastic bags...
By Amit Kapoor and Inputs by Meenakshi Ajith “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”...
By Amit Kapoor and Sheen Zutshi India’s economic landscape is characterized by heterogeneity across states, districts, and sectors. A...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become the defining buzzword of the 21st century. It’s...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad As India moves toward stricter fuel economy standards under the third and fourth...
By Amit Kapoor and Kartik If geopolitics were like a poker game, AI chips would be the aces up...
By Amit Kapoor and Sheen Zutshi EU-India Potential FTA: For Shared Prosperity and Strategic Resilience India and the European...
Beyond Green Buildings: Indian cities need a sustainability reset As urban planners in many parts of the world are...
