Sagari Gupta is a public policy researcher.
A cheaper identity check may make financial products easier to sell, but turning India’s banked millions into investors will depend on trust, suitability and distribution.
Sagari Gupta
August 25, 2026 at 4:34 AM IST
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As food prices push retail inflation above target, the RBI holds steady on rates, wagering that commodity shocks won't trigger wage-setting behaviour.
August 14, 2026 at 7:20 AM IST
India’s trade is increasingly concentrated across a handful of markets, commodities and supply chains, leaving exports, jobs and industrial clusters exposed to external shocks.
August 1, 2026 at 8:39 AM IST
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India's record capex spending raises an uncomfortable question: is it building public wealth or merely accumulating debt? The government lacks the accounting to answer.
July 21, 2026 at 7:10 AM IST
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India has assembled semiconductor, minerals and defence policies. What it still lacks is a single economic security strategy tying them together.
July 15, 2026 at 7:21 AM IST
MoSPI's statistical reforms extend well beyond GDP rebasing. They are creating a data driven architecture that could fundamentally improve policymaking
July 3, 2026 at 5:58 AM IST
India’s export map is not just a trade-policy outcome. It reflects where production capacity, industrial clusters and supplier ecosystems have actually accumulated.
June 29, 2026 at 6:39 AM IST
India saved billions by buying discounted Russian crude. The G7's latest sanctions raise a harder question: has that bargain created a new vulnerability?
June 22, 2026 at 4:14 AM IST
India’s PLI schemes show strong output gains, but without exit criteria, temporary support risks becoming permanent industrial policy by default.
June 15, 2026 at 5:59 AM IST
As southern India ages and the north remains demographically young, NFHS-6 shows up the limits of a fiscal architecture designed for convergence.
June 6, 2026 at 4:11 AM IST