Economy and development
Growth, trade, poverty, business and development.
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🌇 Dispatch from Dubai: The City-State That Arrived
Reflecting on a work trip, Zachary L. Zavidé argues that Dubai has become a city in command, a clean, optimised, culturally rooted prototype city-state, and suggests such cities will attract…
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How precision farming in Rajasthan’s desert is turning farmers into millionaires
An opening excerpt from a reported feature on polyhouse farming near Jaipur, where protected farming yields far more with less water. The text does not name the publication, and the…
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Capitalism’s New Skin: Navigating Identity in a Post-Racial, Hyper-Global World
Picking up Razib’s remark on the 2020 BIPOC era, X.T.M argues that capitalism is now the only cohesive force in a fractured, hyper-globalised world, with social media, UK immigration and…
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Crafty Designs
Starting from the Eameses’ 1958 India Report, which led to the National Institute of Design, the author profiles designer Poonam Bir Kasturi and Industree, and her later critique that Indian…
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From Udaipur to Okinawa riding on orange peel
A teaser for a ThePlate.in story on Narayan Lal Gurjar, a young Rajasthan innovator whose Okinawa-based startup makes superabsorbent polymers from orange and banana peel to help farmers in arid…
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The young entrepreneur from Jharkhand who wants to simplify spiky jackfruit for India
A teaser for a ThePlate.in profile of Aman Chhabra, a Jharkhand entrepreneur whose startup Kathalfy sells ready-to-eat vegan jackfruit products, with a link to the full story.
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How a small, sleepy town in Karnataka turned into the vegetable nursery of India
A ThePlate.in story on Ranebennur in Karnataka, which became India’s centre for hybrid vegetable seed production from the late 1970s and now supports about Rs 500 crore of seed output…
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MS Swaminathan: architect of Green Revolution; the greatest Indian since Gandhi
The author argues that M. S. Swaminathan, architect of the Green Revolution, is the greatest Indian since Independence, having built institutions and helped 800 million people escape hunger, and says…
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West Africa’s bitter chocolate harvest is a sweet deal for farmers in south India
A teaser for a ThePlate.in story on cocoa farmers in Tamil Nadu asking whether they can benefit as global cocoa prices more than triple because of West African crop failures,…
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Modi 3 and the fruits of fiscal Tapasya
Guest writer Saiarav argues that Modi’s election-year budget broke from freebies, citing the 2019 farmer cash transfer and Congress’s welfare promises in Karnataka, and reads this as the government’s confidence…
