August 2026
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Is Your Salary Actually Building Your Financial Independence?
Earning a salary does not automatically create financial independence. This article examines how working women can move from income and savings to investing, wealth creation, financial security and greater control over financial decisions. You Have a Salary. Is That Financial Independence? Imagine a professionally successful woman. She receives a salary every month. She pays household…
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The Services Leapfrog and Missing Manufacturing Multiplier: India’s Structural Transformation, 1951–2025
Most economies that grow richer follow a fairly well-worn script. Workers leave low-paying farms, move into factories that make the country’s exports, and only once wages and skills have risen far enough does the workforce shift again, this time into offices, shops and hospitals. Britain took this route over a century. Japan did it faster.…
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What Young Indian Entrepreneurs Need to Grow for Startup-to-Scale-Up Gap?
India now has over 2.4 lakh DPIIT-recognised startups, a number that keeps climbing every year. By the government’s own count, about 3.2 percent of recognised startups, roughly 6,789 of 2,12,283, were categorised as closed (dissolved or struck off) as of January 31, 2026. Independent trackers had, until recently, described a far more turbulent sector. Tracxn…
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How India’s Young Space Pioneers Are Building a New Space Economy
For decades, an Indian student fascinated by rockets had one obvious destination: ISRO. Today, the same student can imagine building the rocket, owning the company and selling space services to the world. India’s private space revolution shows what can happen when young technical talent meets regulatory freedom, public infrastructure and patient capital. On 18 July…
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Viksit Bharat 2047: How India’s $30 Trillion Economy Built from Contribution of Primary, Secondary & Tertiary Sectors
Viksit Bharat 2047 has emerged as India’s defining long-term development objective. The ambition is not simply to make India one of the world’s largest economies, but to transform it into a developed, high-income economy by the centenary of Independence. Much of the discussion around Viksit Bharat has understandably focused on what India must improve: manufacturing,…
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Green Startups by Young Founders: Turning Climate Concern into Viable Business
Climate change is no longer a distant environmental issue. Rising temperatures, extreme weather events, water stress, waste accumulation and energy insecurity are increasingly affecting households, businesses and governments. For a growing generation of young entrepreneurs, this reality is creating not only a sense of urgency but also an opportunity to build businesses around solving environmental…
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What is stopping Young Indians from fulfilling Entrepreneurship Ambition & Economic Opportunity?
Youth entrepreneurship has gain importance over a period of time in economic growth, innovation, employment and social change. Having access to technology, digital platforms, financial services and online education where the youth get more opportunities to easily transform their idea into businesses than the previous generations. However, entrepreneurship is not just starting a business but…
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Industry Research Report: Critical Minerals for India’s Next Industrial Revolution
Can India become a global manufacturing power without securing the minerals that power its future industries? India is scaling electric mobility, renewable energy, semiconductor manufacturing, defence production and modern power infrastructure. But behind each of these ambitions lies a less visible strategic dependency: critical minerals. Lithium and graphite power batteries. Rare earth elements support advanced…
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Beyond ISRO Mapping India’s Space Value Chain for Private Capital
The phrase “India’s space programme” and ISRO were synonymous for almost three decades. The nation’s success in satellite development, launch, planetary exploration, and scientific research was virtually single-handedly accomplished by a single public institution. But that equation has been completely altered. India has started moving from a state-led space programme to a wider commercial space…
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The Evolution of the Indian Banking System: A 75-Year Rollercoaster
When India woke up to independence in 1947, the banking system was never this vast, digitally efficient, financially inclusive network like it is today. It was small, urbanized, and built for a purpose which was never our own. It was built for the colonials, not for a country which was trying to industrialise, feed farmers,…