As India’s aviation market expands, the real race is shifting beyond passenger numbers to the businesses, investments and economic ecosystems taking shape around its airports. India’s airport story has long been told through passenger numbers, which remain the clearest indicator of how quickly Indians are taking to air travel and have been reinforced by the…
Navi Mumbai’s first international flight isn’t the real story. The new economic geography taking shape around it is. Airports possess an odd talent for misleading people. They appear to exist so that aircraft can land, passengers can depart and duty-free shops can persuade travellers that another bottle of perfume is somehow an investment. In reality,…
Why the city that once defined India’s infrastructure industry is now the cornerstone of a much larger industrial story. Shrikant Rao There was a time when understanding India’s infrastructure business required little more than a boarding pass to Hyderabad and a diary with enough blank pages. Somewhere between Begumpet, Banjara Hills and the city’s expanding…
