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Geography

Moving India: Roads, Rails, Waterways and the Corridor Economy

Roads carry the load, railways are being unchoked by freight corridors, and the cheapest kilometre of all, water, carries almost nothing: India's transport map and its fixes.

1 October 2026 · 16 min read

Economy

Building the Nation: Infrastructure, PPP Models and the Energy Transition

Roads, railways, ports, airports, power: how India finances, builds and runs its infrastructure, PPP models, Gati Shakti, UDAN, Sagarmala and the 51% non-fossil energy milestone.

28 September 2026 · 69 min read

Modern History

The sponge and the Thames: how colonialism drained India's wealth

Naoroji did the arithmetic of empire and named it: the drain of wealth. How British policy silenced India's looms, commercialized its fields, and turned railways into drainpipes.

27 September 2026 · 21 min read

Ancient History

The cities that planned their drains 4,000 years before modern plumbing

In 1921, a railway contractor's dig in Punjab unearthed a 4,500-year-old city with better drains than many modern towns. Inside the discovery, extent, and grid-planned genius of the Harappan world.

27 September 2026 · 23 min read