Sagari Gupta

Sagari Gupta is a public policy researcher.

India’s Credit Data Is Getting Faster. Its Economic Context Still Isn’t

India can now spot changes in borrowers’ repayment behaviour within days. But its economic data still struggles to explain why those changes are happening.

Sagari Gupta

September 3, 2026 at 6:41 AM IST

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Central KYC 2.0: Moving India's Banked Millions Into Insurance, Funds, and Pensions

A cheaper identity check may make financial products easier to sell, but turning India’s banked millions into investors will depend on trust, suitability and distribution.

Sagari Gupta

August 25, 2026 at 4:34 AM IST

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RBI’s Inflation Test Is Moving From Food and Fuel to the Wider Economy

As food prices push retail inflation above target, the RBI holds steady on rates, wagering that commodity shocks won't trigger wage-setting behaviour.

Sagari Gupta

August 14, 2026 at 7:20 AM IST

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India Needs Trade Stress Tests Before It Signs More Trade Deals

India’s trade is increasingly concentrated across a handful of markets, commodities and supply chains, leaving exports, jobs and industrial clusters exposed to external shocks.

Sagari Gupta

August 1, 2026 at 8:39 AM IST

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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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The Bureau

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Govt Defends GDP Data, Rejects Claims of Window Dressing

CCI Finds Debenture Trustees Enforced Fee Floor

RBI May Shift From VRRRs to Short-Term Tools as FX Swap Inflows Flood System

Total FCNR(B) Inflows Under RBI Swap Window $127 Bln, Nearly Half of It in Last 10 days

India’s GDP Data Puzzle: Pronab Sen on Deflators, Revisions and Trust

The Foster Mother of Lodhi Garden