The Hidden AI Story Behind SpaceX’s IPO By Amit Kapoor, Tanya puri and Mohammad Saad SpaceX’s much-anticipated IPO could be one...
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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,...
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 and Meenakshi Ajith The real test of a nation is not how it grows in fair...
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...
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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...
