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5,417 Items You Cannot Import — and the Ministry's Own Two Numbers for What Replaced Them
August 23, 2026
India has banned the import of 5,417 defence items across six DPSU lists, funded a ₹750 crore innovation scheme to invent replacements,...
Read the piece →The Water Bill Nobody Mentions: What Taiwan's Chip Crisis Says About India's Fab Plans
August 18, 2026
In 2021, Taiwan's worst drought since 1964 forced TSMC to run 8,000 water-tanker trucks a day just to keep its fabs running, while ...
Read the piece →The Cluster the Automotive Piece Left Out: Pitching Madhya Pradesh as India's Sixth Hub
August 15, 2026
A companion piece on this site mapped India's automotive clusters — Chennai, NCR, Pune, Sanand, AURIC — and left one out: Pithampur...
Read the piece →How India's Automotive Clusters Rewired Themselves Around Just-in-Time Delivery
August 15, 2026
Maruti Suzuki gets over 76% of its 246 suppliers within 100km of its assembly lines, and its "e-Nagare" system cut the order-...
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Umashankar Triplicane Dwarakanathan
Investment Promotion & Energy-Sector Leader · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India