India at Scale
How India works,
at scale.
Deep dives into the technology, markets, and public infrastructure reshaping how India pays, shops, travels, banks, and identifies itself.
These are not travel notes or trend pieces. Each field guide follows the institutions, incentives, failure modes, and trade-offs beneath a system people use every day.
Deep dives
Start with the rails.
Field Guide 01 · Payments infrastructure
UPI: The Price of Free
Follow one ₹500 payment through five institutions, then go deeper into identity, fraud, market power, public subsidy, and the choices India faces next.
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Field Guide 02 · Consumer infrastructure
The Ten-Minute Household
What changes when the things a household might need tomorrow are already waiting around the corner?
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