Across the dusty stretches of Kutch, Saurashtra and north Gujarat, a quiet but determined rebellion has been building through the summer of 2026. Farmers who have spent generations tilling their land are now standing in front of bulldozers and construction crews, refusing to let power companies plant transmission towers on their fields and in the…
Ask most people what Surat is known for, and they will say diamonds, or silk, or perhaps the fact that it is one of India’s cleanest cities. Almost nobody will say the real answer: Surat is, more than anything else, a city built entirely by people who came from somewhere else. At various points over…
Situated in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, GIFT City, also known as Gujarat International Finance Tec-City, is the nation’s first FinTech City. The vision was to integrate financial services, urban infrastructure and technology innovation in a single ecosystem. It is also the nation’s first operational smart city and India’s first International Financial Services Centre (IFSC). The 1,000-acre project,…
