Naushad Forbes

Diversifying global leadership: India's opportunity in a US+1 strategy

As the world diversifies its geo-economic reliance on one country, we should also diversify our geopolitical reliance on a single nation

Ratan Tata and Christopher Benninger: Champions of Indian aesthetics

The aesthetics of Ratan Tata and Christopher Benninger made India a nicer physical place

Innovation, competition, ambition: Why Indian firms must invest more in R&D

The success story of a few dozen firms could fire Indian industry to build proprietary technology and deploy it worldwide

Jobs & growth: Good news and bad news

Our potential for decades of high growth demands the creation of millions of high-quality jobs in labour-intensive industries

There is another way

Strong, decisive rule is not the only way to effectiveness. Our experience since 1991 shows diffused economic and political power can deliver the goods even better

Higher education: Struggle or promise?

To realise the potential of our higher education system, policy must do less to achieve more, and reflect its diversity

Is Narayana Murthy right?

The founder of Infosys' comment about working 70-hour weeks says productivity should be at the heart of a national debate

NRF: What research should be funded?

An effective National Research Foundation would prioritise excellence over relevance, support a wide range of projects, and stress funding millions of individual researchers

NRF: A landmark initiative

National Research Foundation has the potential to transform both higher education & scientific research

A national innovation system for pharma

A world-beating pharmaceutical industry built on innovation is within reach if we make the changes needed in our firms, public research and regulation

Towards a National Innovation System

Indian industry must see R&D as its way of building a future based on proprietary technology

R&D: India's missing giants

India needs some giant investors in in-house R&D. Let's start with our most successful firms

R&D: An inside job

For innovation to power economic growth, Indian industry must raise its investment in in-house R&D five-fold

Where is the economy headed?

The economy has recovered from Covid, but incompletely, and old problems still persist

What should India's FTA agenda be?

No country is better placed than India to take advantage of the China+1 strategy. But first industry must believe in itself, then trade can drive the future

The value of dissent

Harnessing dissent can help us develop faster and better

Linking science and innovation

Innovation needs technology to lead science, and product development to lead research

Rethinking innovation in defence

Revitalising public R&D could transform innovation, and give meaning to our doctrine of strategic autonomy

A vision for US-India economic partnership

Both countries must play the central role in developing the economic framework for a free and open Indo-Pacific

Where have all the statesmen gone?

The national interest may not be popular. The international interest may be even less so. It's what the world needs now