The Northeast Renaissance Series The global ready-to-drink tea market is evolving beyond conventional iced tea. For Assam, the question is not simply whether the category will grow, but whether the region can participate in the processing, product development, branding and intelligence that create value beyond the leaf. A bottle of tea in a supermarket tells…
The Northeast Renaissance Series A 20-tonne shipment from Assam’s Baksa district has opened a door to the international market. The bigger opportunity lies in building the quality systems, processing capabilities and market intelligence that could turn regional honey into a more valuable, trusted product. A Shipment That Points to a Bigger Possibility Honey has been…
Northeast Renaissance Series The future of tourism in Northeast India lies not in inventory alone, but in thoughtfully designed experiences, community ownership and digital discoverability—without diluting the natural and cultural assets that make each destination unique. The village that closed its gate on Sundays In January 2026, Mawlynnong in Meghalaya made a decision that offers…
Founder Series | The Quantiq How a generation of Northeast entrepreneurs helped build the connectivity on which an economy could grow There was a time when travelling across Assam after sunset was a very different experience. The highways were long stretches of road with very little for a traveller to expect after dark. There were…
Northeast Renaissance Series Assam is already one of the world’s great tea-producing regions. The next opportunity may lie in everything that happens after tea stops being just a beverage. In 2025, Assam produced 687.76 million kg of tea, accounting for 50.2% of India’s total tea production. That is an extraordinary scale of production. But perhaps…
Founder Series | The Quantiq Some opportunities do not arrive looking like opportunities. Sometimes they come disguised as problems. That is the story of Amitabh Sarma, whose entrepreneurial journey began not with a business plan or a desire to build a resort, but with a problem he was trying to solve more than a decade…
Northeast Renaissance Series In a plastic-conscious world, the Northeast has an unusual advantage: an abundant local material, a growing packaging market and an opportunity to develop the technology rather than simply import it. Every product has a journey before it reaches the consumer. For a packet of tea, a box of spices or a bottle…
Business & Technology · Startup & Innovation · Sustainability · Northeast India The week begins with an interesting contrast. In Jagiroad, a semiconductor project is moving from construction into trial production. Across India, startup capital is flowing again, but the distribution of that capital remains uneven. Meanwhile, Climate Week India is deliberately decentralising the climate…
Forty years ago, within three hours of landing in Aizawl, I bought a small book from a roadside stall called Learn Mizo from Hindi. It cost next to nothing, but it changed the way I experienced Mizoram. By evening, I was greeting shopkeepers in halting Mizo tawng. Within a few days, doors were opening for…
Northeast Renaissance | The Quantiq “A lot of people ask about experiential tourism, but we have not been able to do much.” A travel entrepreneur told me this recently during an interview. The sentence stayed with me because it captures a curious contradiction in Northeast India. Travellers are increasingly searching for meaningful experiences, yet many…
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