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The 21st-century dream: making India a rich global powerhouse, an entrepreneurial superpower that reshapes the country and global standards.

  • Which megatrends are making India a rich global powerhouse, an entrepreneurial superpower reshaping global standards?
  • What international trends can inspire India to become greener and greater?
  • Could India replace China as workshop of the world?
  • How could the Indian government expand Indian industry?
  • How does Indian bureaucracy affect the country’s growth?
  • Why is an ageing population in Europe creating plenty of job opportunities for young Indians?
  • How did India finance Britain’s Industrial Revolution?
  • How is social unrest in India’s neighbours adding to the region’s volatility?
  • How is India facing the huge challenge of becoming a modern and prosperous industrial nation?
  • In which sectors do India and Israel share a strong partnership?
  • Why is Europe’s inability to function without Russian energy a big win for India?
  • Surrounded by ocean, what technology can India utilize to mass-produce water, distributing it everywhere to make the countryside greener?
  • Why must India stick with coal-fired power stations for the coming years?
  • Why does AI superpower India have the advantage of operating independently in both Eastern and Western tech. markets?
  • Why do we advise India to introduce gay marriage legislation?

From the 15th century onwards, geopolitical and economic power shifted from East to West — the former declining while the latter transformed into a global powerhouse. But now, in the 21st century, the pendulum is swinging back.

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  • What is the impact of a political awakening of the masses in India?
  • How is pragmatic India less interested in the world view and more in its global role?
  • Why can India increase stability and happiness by treating minorities better?
  • How can India benefit from its demographic dividend?
  • What made India one of the world’s top five economies and much wealthier than its neighbours?
  • Why can India afford to resolve regional tensions peacefully?
  • How can India prevent homegrown social unrest and violent uprisings by offering alternative opportunities to its surplus boys?
  • Why are preventing new regional tensions and stopping social unrest in neighbouring countries spilling across its borders India’s top geopolitical priorities?
  • Why is India more of a meritocracy than it was in the past, even though too many people without any opportunity to nurture their talents still live in poverty-stricken slums?
  • Why must India invest more in mental health to avoid falling into the same trap as other countries?
  • Could India, the country of the Kama Sutra, also become the superpower of love?
  • What technology could help India turn human excrement into energy for rural communities?
  • If India truly aspires to become a superpower, why must it stand on equal footing with China and the USA?

India boasts so many ambitious young people that it could truly become the second workshop of the world.

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  • Why must many old legends from the Mahabharata and other ancient scriptures be retold if India wants to increase and diversify its tourism?
  • How will India be as spotless as Singapore by 2050, without any waste whatsoever?
  • With tourism on the rise and growing national pride growing, should India invest in its craftsmen to renovate forgotten, derelict treasures?
  • Unlike those in other countries, how do Indian businesses understand how to deliver what poorer people need?
  • How will India surpass Japan and move into third place in the rankings of economic superpowers by 2032?
  • Why does India need two Taj Mahals?
  • How can today’s small electric VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) aircraft increase India’s appeal to both domestic and foreign tourists?
  • Why does red tape in India exemplify bullshit jobs?
  • Why does India have the technology and know-how to develop its own Supersonic and Hypersonic Aircraft?
  • Could airships be part of the solution to India’s infrastructure woes?
  • How is air cleanliness essential for health, happiness and development of tourism in India?
  • How can India become a food superpower in the future, easily securing third place among the world’s top food exporters?
  • How will nuclear power help India on its prosperous journey to the future?

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