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India's Weekly Dose of Optimism #30

Weekly roundup of India's progress across science, energy, infrastructure, conservation, defense, and space.
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The Real Life Crime Lords of Dhurandhar
How a banned Bollywood film about Pakistani criminals became Pakistan's #1 hit, why the real criminals are darker than fiction and why Dhurandhar is…
 • Rohit Nalluri
India's Rocketing Missile Program
How India's arsenal of BrahMos, Astra, Agni, and Pralay became the most consequential weapons program in Asia.
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India's Weekly Dose of Optimism #29
The Week the Grid Tipped Clean, Chips Came Home, and BrahMos Flew South
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India Positive Weekly: Solar Goes Sovereign, $30 Billion Arrives, and a Railway Zone Is Born
India's ALMM solar mandate took effect, POWERGRID tendered 1.6 GWh of battery storage, and AirTrunk pledged $30B in AI data centres
 • Rohit Nalluri
India Positive Weekly: The $170B Energy Record, 700,000 GPUs, and the Pangolin of Kiphire
When the IEA’s World Energy Investment 2026 report landed on May 28, it carried a line tucked into the India chapter that would have seemed improbable…
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The 1,200-Second Week: India's Hypersonic Breakthrough and Six More Wins
May 9-15, 2026 | DRDO sets a scramjet endurance record, Gujarat commissions 870 MW of grid storage, and India hosts five nations for big cat…
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India Positive Weekly: Record Wind, India's first Space Unicorn, and Semiconductors
A record-breaking week in wind power, India's first space tech unicorn, fresh semiconductor approvals, and steady macroeconomic optimism
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India Positive: The Grid Holds, the Buffalo Comes Home, and Google Breaks Ground in Vizag
India Positive Weekly Roundup | April 25 - May 1, 2026
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When Highways Make Way for Elephants
India Positive | Week of April 12-18, 2026: a missile four decades in the making, a solar company crossing 10 gigawatts, India’s most honest accounting…
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