Infrastructure

The End of the Centralised Grid, the Dawn of a New Power Order

The Diagnosis: A one-way grid built for the industrial age can no longer power the digital one. The shift to a decentralised, adaptive network is already underway.

Sharmila Chavaly

October 24, 2025 at 5:44 AM IST

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India’s Growth Will Run on Commodities, But Are We Ready?

India’s next phase of growth will be fuelled by commodities like food, metals, energy, and fibre. But the question is whether we can scale up without exhausting resources.

G. Chandrashekhar

October 22, 2025 at 4:09 AM IST

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Beyond Grants: Rethinking How India Funds Infrastructure

India’s infrastructure push can no longer rely on one-time grants and optimism; it must shift from funding gaps to creating value — treating infrastructure not as a cost centre, but as an ecosystem that pays for itself.

Arvind Mayaram

October 20, 2025 at 8:40 AM IST

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Beyond the Green Mirage: A Blueprint for Global Infrastructure Finance

Climate finance is trapped in an ideological tug of war. Infrastructure must be judged not by its colour code but by its durability, resilience, and impact.

Sharmila Chavaly

October 4, 2025 at 5:36 AM IST

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How India’s Great Urban Decentralisation Experiment Has Stalled

India’s cities are trapped in a half-decentralised limbo. Powerless mayors, weak finances, and fragmented planning. Three decades after the 74th Amendment, the great urban reform experiment risks becoming a stillborn promise.

Sharmila Chavaly

August 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM IST

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India’s Cities are Not Broken. They’ve been Abandoned

India’s cities have been undone by the collapse of political accountability and the acceptance of dysfunction as ordinary. Without structural reform and genuine local democracy, urban India will remain trapped in a cycle of promises, paralysis and silent abandonment.

Srinath Sridharan

July 16, 2025 at 2:50 AM IST

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Banks Are No Longer The Backbone Of Infrastructure Credit

The RBI’s new project finance guidelines are not about inviting banks back into the sector. They quietly endorse a specialised model already taking shape.

Sujit Kumar

June 24, 2025 at 8:20 AM IST

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India Risks Becoming Data Rich But Cognition Poor In The AI Era

India must move beyond data sovereignty to build and own LLMs as critical infrastructure, ensuring true AI autonomy and cultural integrity.

Krishnadevan V

June 20, 2025 at 1:54 AM IST

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Why India’s Infrastructure Is Breaking Before It’s Even Finished

India’s crumbling bridges and tunnels reflect systemic neglect, weak enforcement, and vanishing accountability. A national crisis is building, before the infrastructure does.

Sharmila Chavaly

June 19, 2025 at 9:35 AM IST

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Why Infrastructure Is Facing Public Backlash Again

Poor planning, patchy communication, and weak execution are turning solid infrastructure policy into flashpoints of public anger.

Sharmila Chavaly

April 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM IST

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The Bureau

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India’s Processed Potato Exports Surge as Asia’s Snack Demand Booms

When Infrastructure Kills the Vibe, Ambition Turns Up the Volume

Green crackers, Sahara-SEBI, Digital Arrest, Asian Paints, and more

CoinDCX Raises Again — Is India’s Crypto Winter Finally Thawing?

India’s Exports to US Fall 20% in September as Trump Tariffs Bite: GTRI

MPC Keeps Powder Dry as Rate-Cut Debate Heats Up

Mission Pulses: Does It Pack The Protein Punch India Needs?

Jallikattu: Tamil Nadu’s Ancient Bull-Taming Tradition