Economics
What the Q1 GDP Print Actually Tells Us
Beyond the headline number — where growth actually came from.
5 minJul 24
Research Terminal · Vol. I
Mapping what a developed India actually requires — by 2055.
An evolving research platform on economics, manufacturing, technology, defense and national development — with real citations, live data, and a knowledge graph connecting every domain.
11Research Domains
102Essays Mapped
2055Target Horizon
Signature · Interactive
The knowledge graph
Every domain on this site is a node, and every node is a real page. Click to jump straight into that domain.
Node detail
Hover or click a node
Each node is a research domain page. Line weight shows how closely two domains cross-reference each other.
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Live Data · Ledger
India, by the numbers
A running ledger of the indicators this research tracks most closely. Placeholder figures today — will connect to live sources as the platform develops.
Nominal GDP$4.3T↑ 6.8% real growth
Manufacturing Share17.4%+0.4pp YoY
Urban Population37.2%of total population
Defense Indigenization65%of procurement value
FDI Inflow by SectorFY25 (₹ Cr)FY26 (₹ Cr)Change
Manufacturing71,20078,400+10.1%
Services88,90092,300+3.8%
Computer Software70,10065,200-7.0%
Telecom29,60034,100+15.2%
Automobile38,90041,000+5.4%
Featured Research
Long-form work on the systems that will shape India's next 30 years.
Essays and working papers on manufacturing competitiveness, capital formation, urban systems, and the institutions that separate developing economies from developed ones.
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Why India's Manufacturing Share Has Stayed Stuck Near 17%
A look at the structural bottlenecks — land, logistics cost, capital access, and skilling — that have kept manufacturing's share of GDP flat for two decades, and what actually moved it in South Korea and Vietnam.
14 min readRead essay
The Quiet Reordering of Global Supply Chains
China+1 was supposed to be India's decade. Here's what's actually landed, what hasn't, and why.
9 minRead
India's AI Compute Gap, In One Chart
Domestic compute capacity vs. demand — and what the national GPU mission needs to actually close it.
7 minRead
Tier-2 Cities Are Where the Next 200 Million Urban Indians Will Live
Why Surat, Coimbatore, and Indore matter more to 2055 than another Mumbai skyscraper.
11 minRead
Eleven Domains, One Question
What does a developed India require?
Every essay on this site sits inside one of eleven interlocking domains, each with its own page.
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Economics
Growth, capital, trade & macro policy
14 essays 02Manufacturing
Factories, supply chains & PLI
11 essays 03Industrialization
Energy, infra & industrial policy
9 essays 04Urbanization
Cities, housing & migration
7 essays 05Technology & AI
Compute, semiconductors & AI policy
13 essays 06History & Civilizations
What past rises actually looked like
6 essays 07Geopolitics
Trade blocs, alliances & strategy
10 essays 08Defense
Indigenous defense manufacturing
5 essays 09Education
Skilling, higher-ed & research capacity
8 essays 10National Development
Institutions, governance & state capacity
12 essays
Featured Projects
Research is only half the work. The rest gets built.
Enterprise tooling, dashboards, automations and applied AI — case studies from work spanning analytics, cloud infrastructure, and product engineering.
Power BI · Analytics
Enterprise Lab — Manufacturing KPI Suite
A real-time production dashboard tracking OEE, downtime, and yield across 6 plant lines.
Case study
Automation
Procurement Workflow Automation
Replaced a 9-step manual PO approval chain with an automated pipeline.
Case study
AI · Applied
Policy Document Q&A Engine
A retrieval-augmented assistant over 4,000+ pages of Indian industrial policy.
Case study
Cloud · Infrastructure
Cost-Optimized Data Pipeline
Migrated a batch ETL system to an event-driven cloud architecture.
Case study
Web Development
This Website
A research-first platform built for speed and clarity.
Case study
Data Visualization
India Industrial Atlas (WIP)
An interactive map of India's manufacturing clusters and infrastructure.
In progress
The Central Thesis
India 2055
A working roadmap of what has to be true, decade by decade, for India to reach developed-nation status within one generation.
Foundation Phase
Fix the base: infrastructure, logistics cost, ease of doing business, and the skilling pipeline.
Interactive · Industrial Atlas
India's manufacturing map
Major industrial corridors and clusters. Click a marker for a quick profile.
Cluster detail
Click a marker
Select any point on the map to see a quick profile of that industrial cluster.
Knowledge Hub
Books, papers, maps & datasets — curated, not dumped.
Datasets
Cleaned, source-linked datasets on manufacturing output, trade, and demographics.
Get datasetsVisual Explainers
Charts and diagrams that took longer to make than the essays they support.
View visuals
Latest Articles
Shorter takes, published more often.
Technology
Reading the Semiconductor Mission's Fine Print
What the latest fab approval commits India to.
6 minJul 20
Manufacturing
PLI 2.0: Early Signals from the Disbursement Data
Which sectors are converting incentives into capacity.
8 minJul 14
Defense
Indigenous Content in Defense Procurement, Charted
A decade of import-substitution data, visualized.
6 minJul 08
Economics
The Household Savings Puzzle
Why household financial savings have fallen even as the economy has grown.
7 minJun 30
Technology
India's Startup Funding Winter, In Context
A three-year comparison of funding flows against global VC trends.
5 minJun 22
Skills & Technologies
Tools I use to research, analyze, and build.
Analysis & Data
Engineering & Cloud
Power BIExcelPythonSQLPower AutomateAzureAWSJavaScriptFigmaTableauGitClaude / LLM APIs
Journey
Career, research & what's next.
2019 — 2022
Foundations
Started in enterprise analytics — Excel, Power BI, and process automation, working across manufacturing and operations data.
2022 — 2024
Systems Thinking
Moved into cloud infrastructure and automation at scale — while independently studying industrial policy and development economics.
2024 — Present
Research in Public
Started publishing long-form research on India's economy and manufacturing base. Building this platform as its permanent home.
Next
India 2055, Fully Mapped
Expanding the India 2055 roadmap into a fully interactive, data-backed model — decade by decade, sector by sector.
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