The Shillong violence is a reminder that Northeast India cannot build a common tourism brand without protecting the trust and confidence of the people who travel through it. On 3 August 2026, The Quantiq published an article titled “Brand Northeast”, inspired by the vision articulated by Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia about giving Northeast India a…
From limestone reserves to new clinker and grinding capacity, Assam is emerging as an important cement manufacturing centre. But can the state turn this boom into a broader industrial ecosystem while preparing for the industry’s low-carbon future? Cement is rarely an industry that makes headlines. Artificial intelligence does. Startups do. Green energy does. Even tea,…
India’s handloom industry remains one of the country’s largest livelihood ecosystems. Yet its next phase of growth may depend less on launching another heritage brand and more on combining natural fibres, material science, world-class design and intellectual property to build globally competitive businesses. Walk through any premium handloom exhibition, browse a curated online marketplace or…
The Northeast Renaissance Series Ideas for a ₹10,000–12,000 Crore Indian Market and a Multi-Billion Dollar Global Future The future textile industry may not compete on colour alone. It may compete on how sustainably that colour is created. Every morning, billions of people wear colours without asking where they come from. For more than a century,…
Assam’s ₹1,164-crore A-SEMI initiative aims to build far more than a skilled workforce around Tata Electronics’ Jagiroad semiconductor facility. Can the state transform a landmark investment into a thriving semiconductor ecosystem owned and shaped by local enterprises? A Semiconductor Plant Can Create Jobs. An Ecosystem Can Create Prosperity. Economic history repeatedly shows that landmark industrial…
As global supply chains fracture and the world begins redesigning trade architecture, Northeast India may be standing before the biggest export opportunity it has seen since independence. When policymakers, economists, business leaders and technology executives gathered recently in Dalian, China, for the World Economic Forum’s 2026 Annual Meeting of the New Champions, more commonly known…
Why the message emerging from Summer Davos 2026 in China matters far more to a bamboo entrepreneur in Assam or a handloom producer in Nagaland than most people realise. When nearly 1,800 global leaders, policymakers, economists and technology executives gathered in the Chinese coastal city of Dalian last week for the 2026 Annual Meeting of…
The Northeast Renaissance Series Ideas for a ₹50,000 Crore Indian Market and a Multi-Billion Dollar Global Future The Most Valuable Product Bamboo May Create Is Something You Cannot See For decades, Northeast India has largely viewed bamboo through a remarkably narrow economic lens. The conversation around bamboo has traditionally revolved around furniture manufacturing, handicrafts, construction…
For decades, Northeast India has remained trapped in an economic contradiction that policymakers have repeatedly acknowledged but rarely solved. The region possesses one of Asia’s richest bamboo ecosystems, governments have launched multiple bamboo missions over the years, institutions have been created to support the sector and communities across the region have depended on bamboo-based livelihoods…
The Northeast Renaissance Series Ideas for a ₹40,000 Crore Indian Market and a Multi-Billion Dollar Global Future For decades, Northeast India has viewed bamboo through a remarkably narrow economic lens. Conversations around bamboo have traditionally revolved around furniture manufacturing, handicrafts, construction applications, paper production, and, at best, low-value biomass utilization. Even when bamboo enters industrial…
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