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The Phantom City: Why India's Urban Engine is Running on Empty
India is positioning itself as a future thirty-trillion-dollar economy, but its metropolises are run like colonial outposts—subservient to state capitals, financially starved, and stripped of local democracy. An analysis of NITI Aayog’s latest blueprint exposes the systemic gridlock keeping Indian cities in a state of perpetual arrest.
NAM editorial·16 June 2026·19 min read
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The Acceleration of Digital Public Infrastructure
Over the last decade, India's deployments of unified, open API protocols (payments, identity verification, and logistical exchange) have scaled at logarithmic rates, outstripping traditional physical capital deployments in high-income OECD nations.
Unified Public Protocols (India UPI/Stack)
OECD Traditional Digital Capital Index
Source: Morcha Public Policy Research Index (2026 projections)
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