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From Hidden Valleys to Hospitality Capital: The Dirang Signal That Redraws Northeast India’s Tourism Map
A quiet Himalayan town is suddenly on India’s hospitality radar There was a time when places like Dirang existed only in travel whispers—passed between backpackers, photographers, and those who preferred maps without markers. Today, that silence has been broken. With the entry of Indian Hotels Company Limited into Dirang, through a new greenfield hospitality project,…
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The Trans-Himalayan Surge: How the North East–Bhutan Corridor Is Rewriting Asia’s Tourism Map (2022–2025)
A Quiet Shift in the Global Travel Map For decades, India’s tourism story followed a familiar script. The circuits were predictable, the destinations well-rehearsed, and the narrative firmly anchored in the north and west. But between 2022 and 2025, something began to shift. Not abruptly, but unmistakably. From the floodplains of Assam to the monasteries…
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THE QUANTIQ | MID-WEEK BRIEF
India’s AI Stack Moves Beyond Hype — Into Real Utility and Control There’s a visible maturity setting into India’s AI ecosystem. The early noise—chatbot clones, generic copilots, and surface-level wrappers—is giving way to something more grounded: tools that solve operational problems, build infrastructure, and enable builders. This week’s selection reflects that shift. No repetition. No…
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The Green Goldmine: Monetizing North East India’s Medicinal Bio-Wealth
The North East of India has long been described as a biodiversity hotspot. That phrase, repeated often enough, has begun to lose its meaning. But strip away the cliché, and what remains is something far more consequential—an economic frontier waiting to be understood, structured, and scaled. At a time when India’s growth narrative is increasingly…
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The Sovereign Spine: How Assam’s NDC-NER Is Rewiring India’s Digital Future from the Edge
There are moments in a region’s history that arrive quietly—without spectacle, without noise—but with the power to redraw its future. The inauguration of the National Data Centre for the North East Region (NDC-NER) in Assam is one such moment. At first glance, it is a structure of steel, cables, and cooling systems—a G+5 building with…
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What Is the Investment Gap? And Why the World Can No Longer Ignore It
A Gap You Cannot See, But Can Feel There are gaps that can be measured, and there are those that are experienced long before they are understood. The investment gap belongs to the latter. It does not announce itself with headlines or market crashes. It reveals itself more quietly—in unfinished roads, delayed projects, underfunded systems,…
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The $5 Trillion Question: Why the World Needs an Investment Reset
When Numbers Start Sending Signals There are moments in history when numbers stop behaving like statistics and begin to feel like signals. This is one of those moments. In its latest report, Accelerating Investment: Challenges and Policies, the World Bank Group lays out a striking proposition: to stay on course with development goals and climate…
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The Great Curriculum Purge: When a Nation Deletes Its Past to Write the AI Future
There is something unsettling about the idea of knowledge being erased. Not debated. Not revised. Not slowly phased out through academic committees and cautious reforms. But deleted. In recent months, multiple credible reports have pointed to a sweeping move in China — the discontinuation of nearly 1,400 university courses deemed misaligned with the demands of…
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Sunday Brief: 5 Lesser-Known AI Tools Quietly Redefining Knowledge and Creation
While much of the AI conversation revolves around productivity and automation, a deeper shift is underway. AI is beginning to reshape how we think, remember, create, and publish. This week, we explore five tools that reflect this transition—from managing information to structuring intelligence itself. Lesser-known AI tools like Tana, Rewind AI, Durable, Tome, and Perplexity…
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