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Questions India Must Answer
India built a Right to Repair portal in 2022, but not a law. As the EU and US states pass binding repair obligations, India's framework stays voluntary. What is the country actually choosing?
Digital India
India's mobile app market posted a record $345 million in consumer spending last quarter, and Sensor Tower says the growth is real. But set that number against 6.3 billion quarterly downloads and against what a download is worth in the United States, and the story gets more complicated than "India is finally paying."
Governance
Indians are among the most vocal critics of their own public services and among the least willing to comply with the rules those services run on. That contradiction is not hypocrisy. It is a rational response to a state that does not reciprocate, and it can be broken from either end.
Governance
More than twenty Indian states have laws giving citizens a legal right to receive government services within a fixed time, with a penalty on the officer who misses it. Almost nobody uses them, and almost no penalty is ever paid.
Governance
Indian cities generate a large share of national output and run on budgets a mid-sized European town would find small. Municipal corporations raise about half their revenue themselves, smaller towns far less, and almost none of it is enough for what a city is legally required to provide.
Digital India
South Korea achieved near-universal 1 Gbps broadband coverage by treating internet connectivity as public infrastructure. India's national average sits at roughly 65 Mbps. This state-by-state audit examines the gap, what BharatNet Phase 3 promises, and what every citizen can do to close the distance.
Governance
On 13 April 1919, British Indian Army troops opened fire on thousands of unarmed civilians at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, killing hundreds. More than a century later, the event raises urgent questions about state accountability, colonial justice, and the citizen-led work of democratic maintenance.
Governance
Helsinki's HSL system lets a single ticket cover metro, tram, bus, and ferry - giving the city a 70% public transit modal share. Here is how Finland built that integrated network and why India's 50+ metro cities, backed by the National Common Mobility Card, can follow the same path.
India vs World
India committed $10 billion to build a semiconductor industry via PLI. Tata-PSMC Dholera fab at 28nm, Micron ATMP Sanand, and the Vedanta-Foxconn collapse: what India can realistically achieve by 2030.
Digital India
India's IndiaAI Mission is racing to build sovereign compute infrastructure with 10,000+ GPUs. Here is how that stacks up against China's massive AI build-out, where the gaps are real, and why the Global South has a different path to winning the AI era.
Digital India
In 1991, Estonia emerged from Soviet rule with no IT infrastructure and one million people. By 2024 it ran 99 percent of government services online, with a 3-minute tax filing and the world's only nation-wide digital identity. India Stack has the pieces. What Estonia did differently is connect them.
Digital India
Indian developers contribute to every major open source project. IndiaStack serves as a reference model for digital public infrastructure globally. BharatGPT and Sarvam AI are releasing open-weight AI models for Indian languages. Here is a full accounting of India's open source story - and the policy gap that is holding it back.
Digital India
Meta's AI crawler scraped one site 7.9 million times in 30 days. For Indian news and content publishers, this is the canary for a larger question: who pays when AI companies train on Indian journalism, and what legal and technical tools exist to push back?
Questions India Must Answer
By 2030 India will likely be the world's third-largest economy. Whether it is also a just, equitable, and environmentally viable country depends on five questions the country is avoiding answering clearly.
The Narmada is the most-studied river in India's development history. Its dams displaced hundreds of thousands, delivered water to millions, and turned a regional conflict into the country's longest-running argument about who development is for.
Poverty
Inside India’s gig economy, 8 million drivers and delivery workers, the Social Security Code that promised protection but has not delivered, the state-level experiments, and what a working safety net would actually look like.
Governance
Two decades of India’s RTI Act, Aruna Roy’s origin story, the landmark cases it enabled, the whistleblower deaths, the digital RTI portal, and the quiet dilutions that have weakened the law’s reach.
Health
India's Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission is building a national digital health ID system, the ABHA card, that aims to link every citizen's medical records across hospitals, labs, and pharmacies.
Digital India
Aadhaar covers 1.39 billion Indians with biometric identity, processes 100 million authentications daily, and has saved 3.48 lakh crore in welfare delivery. How India built the world's largest digital ID system, and the privacy debate it created.
Education
How Indian EdTech companies, government programs like NEP 2020 and NIPUN Bharat, and grassroots innovators are bringing quality education to rural and remote communities through adaptive learning, offline-first tools, and mother-tongue content.
