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The Foresight

Independent analysis for India's decision-makers

Avdhut Desai

Avdhut Desai

Avdhut Desai is a brand strategist and business growth consultant with a track record of building startups across tech and education. He is the founder of Tech Foresigh, Foresight Foundation and Foresight Education and the Founder & Chief Editor of The Foresight, where he writes on India's institutions, governance, and public policy.

Contributions by Avdhut Desai

The Corridor After the Confrontation: India’s Quiet Return to the Maldives
South Asia

The Corridor After the Confrontation: India’s Quiet Return to the Maldives

Avdhut Desai18 August 202618 August 2026

The Maldives voted India’s troops out in November 2023. Three years later, India is back almost everywhere else: as a creditor, a builder, a coast guard’s quartermaster, and now a payments network. The Favara-UPI corridor is the newest chapter. It was never the whole story.

Who Is India’s Edtech Industry Actually Building For?
Education

Who Is India’s Edtech Industry Actually Building For?

Avdhut Desai8 August 20268 August 2026

Venture capital is racing to build AI tutors for Indian classrooms. Government data shows a third of India’s schools still don’t have a working computer or internet connection — and the one number in Indian education that actually improved this year had nothing to do with artificial intelligence.

The Umpire in the Team’s Jersey: India’s Anti-Defection Law
Law & Judiciary

The Umpire in the Team’s Jersey: India’s Anti-Defection Law

Avdhut Desai6 August 20266 August 2026

Four years, three party implosions, one pattern: Shiv Sena, the NCP and West Bengal’s Mukul Roy have each tested India’s Tenth Schedule and come out ahead. A look at why the anti-defection law’s designated umpire — the Speaker — keeps ruling in favour of whoever appointed him.

India Is Still Teaching For A Century That’s Over
Education

India Is Still Teaching For A Century That’s Over

Avdhut Desai1 August 20261 August 2026

A minister resigned after the NEET paper leak protests. It isn’t enough. This piece traces India’s education system from Macaulay’s clerks to Kota’s coaching factories, compares it against global benchmarks, and asks what a genuine overhaul would actually require.

From Insult to Institution: Why CJP Must Rename Itself Now
Opinion

From Insult to Institution: Why CJP Must Rename Itself Now

Avdhut Desai26 July 20261 August 2026

The Name That Started a Movement Should Not Be the Name That Limits It – A branding note on the Cockroach Janta Party, from one strategist to a movement at its biggest turning point.

The Silence Tax: What India Loses Every Time a Question Gets Called Treason
Politics

The Silence Tax: What India Loses Every Time a Question Gets Called Treason

Avdhut Desai21 July 20261 August 2026

A minister called protesters “disruptive elements.” A grieving father asked him to look at his dead son instead. What India’s NEET crisis reveals about the real cost of treating every hard question as treason — and what it costs the government’s own loyal supporters too.

The State That Only Listens to Empty Stomachs
Governance & Policy

The State That Only Listens to Empty Stomachs

Avdhut Desai16 July 20261 August 2026

Sonam Wangchuk, the engineer who once froze water into ice to save a Himalayan village, is eighteen days into his sixth hunger strike in three years. This isn’t just a story about Ladakh’s statehood demand or an exam scandal — it’s about a government that has learned to talk only after a court, or a crisis, forces its hand.

Why you need a good image CDN provider for your e-commerce store?
Technology

Why you need a good image CDN provider for your e-commerce store?

Avdhut Desai4 June 20205 August 2026

A good image CDN provider for e-commerce stores delivers impressive and reliable web experience to users and helps e-commerce store to grow in the market.

How to drive innovation at your workplace?
Business

How to drive innovation at your workplace?

Avdhut Desai21 January 20205 August 2026

Innovation and creativity aren’t the forbidden islands for us. Most of the time we play with the ideas that could be novel in originality while taking a shower or in the early morning when we are half-awake!

What Builds A Great Team? Two Pointers!
Business

What Builds A Great Team? Two Pointers!

Avdhut Desai20 January 20205 August 2026

For leadership to thrive, the teams are much more than complimentary thing and on the flipside, a team grows productive on the foundation of an able leadership.

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For the first time in India's history, private medical colleges now hold more MBBS seats…

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India’s SIR Voter Purge: 91 Lakh Deleted, Court Upholds It

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Since mid-2025, India's Election Commission has been running the most sweeping revision of its voter…

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