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India's Education System Isn't Failing Students. It Was Never Built For Them.

One in two Indian graduates is unemployable the day they leave college. The coaching industry is worth fifty thousand crore rupees and climbing. Graduate unemployment is higher than illiterate unemployment. We built a mass education system optimised for a labour market that does not exist, and then acted surprised when the whole thing keeps breaking. This is what actually needs to change.

NAM editorial · 23 July 2026 · 10 min read

Policy & Governance

The Phantom City: Why India's Urban Engine is Running on Empty

India is positioning itself as a future thirty-trillion-dollar economy, but its metropolises are run like colonial outposts—subservient to state capitals, financially starved, and stripped of local democracy. An analysis of NITI Aayog’s latest blueprint exposes the systemic gridlock keeping Indian cities in a state of perpetual arrest.

NAM editorial · 16 June 2026 · 19 min read

Policy & Governance

The $39 Billion Ransom: Buying the Heart, Not the Airframe

Is the $39 billion (₹3.25 lakh crore) deal for 114 Rafale jets is not an "overpayment" for hardware, but a strategic trade-off to secure India’s future as a global aerospace power?

NAM editorial · 31 January 2026 · 13 min read

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India's Education System Isn't Failing Students. It Was Never Built For Them.

The Phantom City: Why India's Urban Engine is Running on Empty

The $39 Billion Ransom: Buying the Heart, Not the Airframe