Sagari Gupta

Sagari Gupta

Sagari Gupta is a public policy researcher. 

India's ₹12 Trillion Question: Building Assets or Wealth?

India's record capex spending raises an uncomfortable question: is it building public wealth or merely accumulating debt? The government lacks the accounting to answer.

Sagari Gupta

July 21, 2026 at 7:10 AM IST

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India Has the Building Blocks but Not an Economic Security Strategy

India has assembled semiconductor, minerals and defence policies. What it still lacks is a single economic security strategy tying them together.

Sagari Gupta

July 15, 2026 at 7:21 AM IST

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India's Statistical Overhaul Is Quietly Rewriting Economic Policymaking

MoSPI's statistical reforms extend well beyond GDP rebasing. They are creating a data driven architecture that could fundamentally improve policymaking

Sagari Gupta

July 3, 2026 at 5:58 AM IST

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India’s Export Story Is Written by its States

India’s export map is not just a trade-policy outcome. It reflects where production capacity, industrial clusters and supplier ecosystems have actually accumulated.

Sagari Gupta

June 29, 2026 at 6:39 AM IST

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India’s Russian Oil Bet Faces a New Geopolitical Stress Test

India saved billions by buying discounted Russian crude. The G7's latest sanctions raise a harder question: has that bargain created a new vulnerability?

Sagari Gupta

June 22, 2026 at 4:14 AM IST

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India’s PLI Push Needs an Exit Test

India’s PLI schemes show strong output gains, but without exit criteria, temporary support risks becoming permanent industrial policy by default.

Sagari Gupta

June 15, 2026 at 5:59 AM IST

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India’s Fiscal Architecture Cannot Manage Two Demographic Futures

As southern India ages and the north remains demographically young, NFHS-6 shows up the limits of a fiscal architecture designed for convergence. 

Sagari Gupta

June 6, 2026 at 4:11 AM IST

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