India is already known as the Pharmacy of the World, supplying affordable medicines to over 200 countries and producing one in every five generic drugs consumed globally. But the future of healthcare is moving rapidly toward biologics, AI-driven drug discovery, precision medicine, and next-generation therapeutics. https://youtu.be/W3OF9IRIg2I?si=ObSIpZOQ9sXQhxa1 In this episode hosted by StratNewsGlobal.Tech, Anil Padmanabhan speaks with Dr. Pravarkar Sahoo, Programme Director at NITI Aayog and lead author of the latest Trade Watch Quarterly, which put the spotlight on how India could transition from a global pharma manufacturing powerhouse to a global pharmaceutical innovation hub. Key topics covered: Why India has…
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India has quietly unveiled one of its most consequential financial reforms in years. By exempting Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS)—often called the banker to the world’s central banks—from taxes on investments in Indian government securities, Delhi is signalling a new strategy. It is not simply about supporting the rupee. Instead, it is about India deliberately attracting long-term, patient capital to finance its 2047 ambitions while strengthening its strategic autonomy. https://youtu.be/Sj7ZiEpgTFE In this episode of Capital Calculus, StratNewsGlobal.Tech spoke with development finance expert and former Asian Development Bank official Ajay Sagar about India’s evolving capital…
India’s electric vehicle (EV) market has grown 14-fold since 2020. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: the EV story is often reduced to batteries. That is only half the picture. The real industrial battle lies deeper—in motors, semiconductors, power electronics, chargers, and rare earth magnets. https://youtu.be/1Ky24gbcvYg This is where the value sits. This is where technological sovereignty is decided. And this is where India still depends heavily on imports, especially from China. So the big question is: can India move from assembling EVs to owning the industrial operating system behind them? To answer this and more StratNewsGlobal.Tech spoke to Rahul Maity,…
India has spent the last decade building one of the world’s most ambitious public health and welfare delivery systems. But has access translated into better outcomes? In this episode of Capital Calculus, StratNewsGlobal.Tech speaks with public health expert Nikita Hira to unpack the findings of NFHS-6 (National Family Health Survey) and what they reveal about India’s health paradox. https://youtu.be/w7fVE-vDRMc From stubborn child malnutrition to rising obesity, diabetes, and lifestyle diseases, the conversation explores why India’s next big public policy challenge is no longer just welfare—but human capital. Can India achieve its Viksit Bharat 2047 dream without fixing its health foundations?…
In the 200th episode of Capital Calculus, StratNewsGlobal.Tech, speaks with S. Krishnan, Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), on India’s semiconductor strategy and launch of the India Semiconductor Mission (ISM) 2.0. As chip wars reshape geopolitics and semiconductors become critical to AI, defence, telecom and the digital economy, India is making a strategic push to build its own semiconductor ecosystem. https://youtu.be/uLiEgarRtH8 Watch this episode for a deep dive into one of the most consequential strategic bets India is making for its future. In this conversation, the MeitY Secretary explains: • Why semiconductors have become central to India’s economic…
Indore didn’t become India’s cleanest city because of technology or money. The makeover happened because a public institution learned how to execute. What can the rest of India learn from that transformation? https://youtu.be/uhYgJtoM96g In this episode of Capital Calculus, StratNewsGlobal.Tech speaks with Arkaja Singh, Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research and co-author of a landmark study on Indore’s transformation to explore the deeper governance story behind the city’s success. The conversation goes beyond waste management to examine one of the most important questions facing India today: how do we build capable institutions that can consistently deliver outcomes? Key themes:…
For decades, India’s economic story was powered by a simple but powerful idea: aspiration. As incomes rose, Indians travelled more, upgraded faster, bought homes, changed smartphones more frequently and embraced the belief that tomorrow would be better than today. But what happens when the world becomes persistently uncertain and subject to annual shocks of dramatic magnitude? Conventional wisdom would suggest that repeated shocks eventually weaken consumer confidence and dampen demand. Yet a new Ipsos Consumer Pulse Survey reveals a far more nuanced picture. https://youtu.be/VPPv0r3Tnmw Indian consumers have not stopped spending. They have not abandoned aspiration. Instead, they appear to be…
Undoubtedly, India’s Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) transformed the country over the last decade. Aadhaar gave over a billion Indians a digital identity; UPI revolutionised payments; more than 50 crore citizens entered the formal banking system in under a decade—a process that would normally have taken nearly five decades. But inclusion is not prosperity. India now faces a much bigger challenge: how to create livelihoods, improve productivity, and raise incomes at population scale. This is the promise of DPI 2.0. https://youtu.be/brMh8PFKiCg In this episode of Capital Calculus, hosted on StratNewsGlobal.Tech, Anil Padmanabhan speaks with Debjani Ghosh, Distinguished Fellow at NITI Aayog,…
India has undertaken one of the most significant upgrades to its economic measurement system in decades. The rebasing of GDP and CPI may appear technical on the surface—but beneath it lies a much bigger story: India’s economy has structurally transformed. The weight of food in the inflation basket has fallen sharply. Services and discretionary consumption are playing a much larger role. Digital data systems, GST integration, real-time labour surveys, and improved tracking of the informal economy are reshaping how India measures growth and inflation. https://youtu.be/l5pvvgZCGyk But this raises deeper questions: In this episode of Capital Calculus, StratNews Global.Tech speaks with…
Has the biggest bet by the Gulf countries come under threat? For years, countries like the UAE, Qatar and Saudi Arabia have worked hard to transform themselves into global hubs for trade, capital, and technology. https://youtu.be/r19CzCLKQIg But this conflict between the US, Israel, and Iran is different. It’s not just about territory, it is about targeting the economic backbone of the region: energy, shipping, infrastructure. So are we looking at a cyclical phase of instability or is this a structural break that could redefine the Gulf’s future? To answer all this and more, StratNewsGlobal.Tech spoke to Dr Clemens Chay, Senior…