Brand & Media Intelligence Vi has a refreshed identity, Shah Rukh Khan as its new brand face and a new campaign built around the idea that every customer is a VIP. But can a brand reset turn the telecom operator’s early business recovery into something much harder to build: consumer belief? There is something almost…
India is ageing rapidly, families are changing and millions of women already carry an invisible care economy on their shoulders. The next opportunity may be to turn that hidden work into skilled, dignified employment—and the Northeast could have an unexpected role. India is preparing for a demographic reality that will change much more than the…
Founder Series | The Quantiq Respirit Healthcare is a Guwahati-based MedTech startup. Its founder, Dr. Nihar R. Deka, is preparing to launch what he describes as one of India’s first indigenous, IP-led respiratory-care devices. Last Monday, I spent an hour with him trying to understand the journey so far. What emerged was a story that…
FADA’s August 2026 retail data shows India buying more vehicles than ever in an August. But beneath the 24.23 lakh headline are deeper shifts in consumer behaviour, fuel choices and rural demand—and the Northeast may have to find a very different road into India’s changing automobile economy. India bought more vehicles in August than it…
Northeast Renaissance Series BIO-NIVESH, BioE3 and the ₹1 lakh crore RDI push are opening a new investment window. I have travelled to some of the remotest parts of the Northeast over three decades. I have seen places with barely any roads, where a 140-kilometre journey could take 14 hours. Even so, I have always believed…
The Northeast has forests, bamboo, tea landscapes and enormous biological productivity. What it lacks is a clear balance sheet of its carbon. That may be the first thing it needs before trying to turn natural wealth into economic value. There is an uncomfortable question behind the growing interest in the Northeast India carbon economy. How…
Sovereign Geography Desk What if the world’s food crisis is not only about how much food we produce, but also about how we think about food, nature and the people who grow it? That is the deceptively simple question being asked in Bhutan this week. More than 60 countries have gathered in Paro for the…
Five developments worth watching this week The week ahead is already giving us a few clues about where India’s technology, entrepreneurship and regional economies could be heading. Some of these signals are easy to miss because they do not arrive as major headlines. A government innovation programme may look like another call for applications. A…
Total read time: 4 minutes Nvidia has just sent a powerful signal about the AI economy Nvidia has delivered another blowout quarter, reporting $96.2 billion in revenue, more than double the same period a year earlier. More strikingly, the company expects revenue to grow by about 70% in fiscal 2028, suggesting that demand for AI…
Founder Series | The Quantiq From childhood evenings listening to her grandmother’s stories in Lakhtokia to taking Assamese jewellery to international audiences, Waheeda Rahman’s journey is a story of curiosity, resistance, reinvention and an unwavering belief in the power of creativity. There was no electricity that evening. For young Waheeda Rahman, however, Guwahati’s familiar power…
Connect With The Quantiq
