Author: Swayam Sahu
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What makes an Emergency-Response System work better in Some Countries?
Emergency numbers that are said to be “working” in one country, but not another, are typically comparing two apples and two oranges. It’s not always the technology that is key. What is important is what occurs during the seconds following the dial up: Does the phone ring? Does anyone know where it is? Has the…
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Learn How Medellín’s Green Corridors Turned Existing Urban Space into Environmental Infrastructure
This article examines how Medellín used existing roads, waterways and movement corridors to create green infrastructure without requiring large new parcels of urban land. It analyses the environmental and mobility outcomes of the Green Corridors programme and identifies practical lessons for city authorities seeking to address heat, air quality, biodiversity, sustainable mobility and public-space needs…
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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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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 ROI of Employee Upskilling: Does Training Improve Business Performance?
For years, employee training has been in the same budget category as office candy and partying: discretionary, and a first cut when times get tough. Now, that is being challenged with actual data and it’s not working out. Organisations successfully building talent, not just attracting it, are the ones which are being reshaped by automation,…
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Role of Defence Industrial Corridors in Bridging National Security and Economic Growth
India’s defence sector has, over the past decade, moved from being viewed primarily through a strategic or security lens to becoming an increasingly visible component of the country’s industrial and regional economic policy. The two dedicated Defence Industrial Corridors (DICs) one in Uttar Pradesh with six nodes and the other in Tamil Nadu with five…
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The War That Accelerated Finland’s Energy Transition
The Russia–Ukraine War has been a paradigm shift in the global energy market for a country that had to rethink its long-held beliefs about energy security and geopolitical risk. The impact of the conflict has been felt throughout Europe, but Finland is one of the most interesting cases of how a great geopolitical issue was…