§ Insights · Notes from our team

Notes from the field.

Op-eds, thought-pieces and field notes on what we're seeing as we build the deep-tech platform India needs.

Interactive artifact · Insights N° 014

Maps of futures, drawn for builders.

109 technologies. Four lines. Twenty years - from what's shipping today to what's pre-paradigm in 2045. Click any station for the bet, the open problems, and the India angle. Interchanges mark where two lines collapse into one company.

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Translation Endeavors · Volume I
thesis
Apr 2026·Translation Endeavors · Volume I

The Indian energy transition will be built, not bought.

Why the next decade of climate and energy founders will be Indian - and why Translation Endeavors is positioned to back them.

Translation Endeavors team
Translation Endeavors · Volume II
thesis
Apr 2026·Translation Endeavors · Volume II

Indian biology, global pipelines.

The next decade of therapeutics, diagnostics, and devices will be discovered, engineered, and manufactured in India.

Translation Endeavors team
Translation Endeavors · Volume III
thesis
Apr 2026·Translation Endeavors · Volume III

Sovereign tech, frontier science.

Why the Indian deep-tech founder wave of 2024 to 2030 will produce more category leaders than the previous fifteen years combined.

Translation Endeavors team
Translation Endeavors · Volume IV
thesis
Apr 2026·Translation Endeavors · Volume IV

India will not build OpenAI.

And that is the right strategy. The Indian AI opportunity is sovereign, vertical, and physical.

Translation Endeavors team
What lies beneath.
Shaastra · IITM
essay
Feb 2026·Shaastra · IITM

What lies beneath.

The roots of plants are subterranean architects - how they form and extract nutrients is a fascinating story of evolution.

K. VijayRaghavan · Founding Chair
Societies embrace gene therapy, but resist genetic change in crops.
The Hindu · Sci-Tech
op-ed
2026·The Hindu · Sci-Tech

Societies embrace gene therapy, but resist genetic change in crops.

Why a discipline tolerates one kind of genetic intervention but recoils from another - and what that means for India's bio-economy.

K. VijayRaghavan · Founding Chair
Aatmanirbhar Bharat: a science of patience, scale, and collaboration.
Economic Times · Opinion
op-ed
2026·Economic Times · Opinion

Aatmanirbhar Bharat: a science of patience, scale, and collaboration.

What it actually takes to translate Indian research into companies of consequence - written from inside the institution that is trying.

Prof. Bharat Bhasker · Director, IIMA
A whale of a puzzle.
Shaastra · IITM
essay
Nov 2025·Shaastra · IITM

A whale of a puzzle.

These gentle giants share their ancestry with hippos - and other species first discovered in a Himalayan sea.

K. VijayRaghavan · Founding Chair
A bridge (not) too far.
Shaastra · IITM
essay
Sep 2025·Shaastra · IITM

A bridge (not) too far.

Split-brain studies and brain-computer interfaces are re-establishing a fundamental connection that defines human function.

K. VijayRaghavan · Founding Chair
Mission insects.
Shaastra · IITM
essay
Nov 2024·Shaastra · IITM

Mission insects.

Insects keep our planet running. There is urgency to stem their decline - but it will take science and technology working in tandem.

K. VijayRaghavan · Founding Chair
Architect's plan and builder's craft.
Shaastra · IITM
essay
Jul 2024·Shaastra · IITM

Architect's plan and builder's craft.

Genetic influence is important, for sure - but cells, too, are critical to how we are made.

K. VijayRaghavan · Founding Chair
Long live the queen!
Shaastra · IITM
essay
Jun 2024·Shaastra · IITM

Long live the queen!

A queen ant manages a long lifespan despite overeating and being inactive. Researchers offer insights into her charmed life.

K. VijayRaghavan · Founding Chair
§ AcknowledgmentsEssays republished with thanks to Shaastra, IIT Madras. Op-eds courtesy The Hindu and The Economic Times. All rights remain with the original publishers.