By Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith Most of India’s conversation on circularity in clean energy has gathered around batteries...
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By Amit Kapoor and Sheen Zutshi It is heartening to see Indian workers helping generate the data that will...
By Amit Kapoor and Kriti Parasrampuria India’s Urban Transport Needs to Connect the Dots Economic development is often measured...
By Amit Kapoor and Alan Martin For generations, India’s coastal economy has treated the sea as a constant. It...
By Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith Clean Streets Need Capable Cities An Indian city’s cleanliness is decided afresh every...
By Amit Kapoor and Anandita Doda Indian prices have come under pressure on several fronts this year. Global energy...
By Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith For a tropical country whose nearest ice sheet lies thousands of kilometres to...
By Amit Kapoor and Mukul Anand Manufacturing is where India’s industrial policy has placed its largest bets. By March...
By Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith Socrates warned that writing would ruin memory, and we know he said so...
By Amit Kapoor and Mukul Anand The economic case for FDI is not that foreign money crosses the border, but the...
By Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith In an era marked by structural global transitions, cities have become critical arenas...
By Amit Kapoor and Nabha Joshi The promise of meeting every need, from restocking the kitchen to outsourcing household...
By Amit Kapoor and Darshana Gauratra India has become good at counting forests but the numbers conceal a very...
By Amit Kapoor and Mukul Anand The article was published with Financial Express on September 18, 2026.
By Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith Cities are powerful drivers of national economic growth, and in India the largest...
By Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith On 26 August a glacier came away above the Nepal-Tibet border, killing more...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad Apocalyptic predictions of mass AI-driven unemployment are yet to materialize, but that does not mean...
By Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith India’s battery ambition is usually discussed as a manufacturing problem. Forty gigawatt hours...
By Amit Kapoor and Kartik From 17 to 19 September 2026, the global semiconductor industry will have its eyes...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad Since independence, India has witnessed a wide range of housing initiatives aimed at reducing the...
By Amit Kapoor Today the tricolour flies over cities that did not exist in their present form when it...
By Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith India’s solar transition enters its second half A few days ago, the cabinet...
By Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith Growth, people and climate are one freedom Vande Mataram will be sung from the...
By Amit Kapoor and Anandita Doda Wind is measured in India the way most infrastructure is measured, by how...
By Amit Kapoor and Darshana Gauratra India measures clean energy transition in gigawatts and does this with precision. The...
By Amit Kapoor and Sai Sruti Panda The importance of cities in driving India’s growth is well established, with...
By Amit Kapoor and Sheen Zutshi Deluge patterns are changing but disaster response and mitigation funding follows yesterday’s data....
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad Ever since China’s Moonshot AI launched Kimi K3, an open-source AI model, experts have questioned whether American paid proprietary models...
By Amit Kapoor and Ananya Khurana Barely a month after announcing a farm loan waiver of more than ₹36,500 crore,...
Amit Kapoor and Atul Tiwari Every country reaches a moment when its development can no longer be defined solely...
In an Uncertain World, India’s Edge Is Electric The familiar case for electric mobility in India is built on...
By Amit Kapoor and inputs from Nandini Vats India needs adaptability, not reactive climate action India’s greatest climate challenge...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohamed Saad As AI innovation increasingly concentrates in the USA and China, the development of AI blocs...
By Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith In 1776, Adam Smith asked a question that seems almost quaint today: why are some nations wealthy...
Inside India’s Million-Plus Cities, the Gaps Run Deep Cities are central to economic prosperity. As hubs of talent, firms...
By Amit Kapoor and Sheen Zutshi India’s human capital challenge is no longer principally about expanding participation, but about...
By Amit Kapoor and inputs from Darshana Guaratra The rise of Indo-Pacific: India-Japan’s next chapter 2026 might feel like...
Millets Need More Than Just Celebration. They Need a Value Chain The International Year of Millets may have ended,...
What Actually Moves Farmer Income? India’s average foodgrain productivity increased by 27% over the last decade, from 2014–15 to...
By Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith By Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith India’s economic ambition comes in round dollar...
When ChatGPT launched in 2022, few anticipated that the race for AI leadership would eventually hinge on data centre...
By Amit Kapoor and Sheen Zutshi The world cannot base its AI strategy on the assumption that the world’s...
India Produces Enough Food. But Is It Nutritious Enough? When Prime Minister Modi urged farmers last week to halve...
By Amit Kapoor There is an eerie symmetry between Delhi’s two great fires of June. On June 13, 1997,...
By Amit Kapoor & Meenakshi Ajith A currency is, in the end, a mirror. It reflects not just trade...
By Amit Kapoor and inputs from Meenakshi Ajith The energy transition has produced two kinds of winners so far: countries...
By Amit Kapoor and Sheen Zutshi As artificial intelligence evolves, so do the anxieties around it. The discourse on...
The Hidden AI Story Behind SpaceX’s IPO By Amit Kapoor, Tanya puri and Mohammad Saad SpaceX’s much-anticipated IPO could be one...
By Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith Climate policy is rapidly becoming a question of economic strategy rather than environmental...
Beyond Welfare: The Economic Case for Affordable Urban Housing In most developing economies, the city is where productivity concentrates,...
By Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith There is a particular kind of insult that arrives not as a wound...
By Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith When the United Arab Emirates announced on April 28 that it was leaving...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad AI is widely used not only because of its remarkable capabilities, but also because it has remained relatively affordable. That...
By Amit Kapoor and Kartik “Our first Kartavya is to accelerate and sustain economic growth by enhancing productivity and...
By Amit Kapoor and Kartik The oldest constraint in economics is not capital or labor but the limits of...
By Amit Kapoor, Richard Dasher and Inputs from Meenakshi Ajith A month before a gunman fired shots on Saturday...
By Amit Kapoor and Sheen Zutshi Artificial intelligence is increasingly a focus of India’s technological ambitions, whether in AI summit forums...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad The ongoing Iran–USA–Israel conflict has revealed the evolving capabilities and risks of modern...
By Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith There is something quiet remarkable about the moment India finds itself in, urbanistically...
When a City Doesn’t’ Share Amit Kapoor India’s urban income story is, by many conventional measures, a notable one....
By Amit Kapoor and Nandini Vats Gurugram, which was once a satellite town of Delhi has now transformed into...
Untapped Potential of India’s Orange Economy In June 2025, Prada launched a high-end handcrafted leather sandal whose design closely...
By Amit Kapoor For India, the question of innovation has become one of structural urgency rather than latent potential....
By Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith India stands at a rare historical moment when global supply chains are fragmenting,...
By Amit Kapoor and Nabha Sandip Joshi India has now redrawn its economic baseline. With the shift to a...
Mind the Capital gap: Beyond India’s AI summit moment India’s AI ecosystem is at an inflexion point; the groundwork...
India’s invisible urban fault line Indian cities are learning to do very modern things in very old ways. You...
Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith In 1971, John Lennon asked the world to imagine something disarmingly simple: no countries, nothing...
By Amit Kapoor and Darshana Gauratra Artificial Intelligence is increasingly becoming a core economic infrastructure. From private industry to...
India’s AI Growth Needs More Than Just Metropolitan Hubs By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad Large urban centres are...
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,...
