In Blume Venture’s consumer stack, if India 1 is Mexico, India 2 is Indonesia, India 3 is Sub-Saharan Africa. Over 1 billion of the population remains excluded from India's digital economy, financial growth, and policy priorities.

Who creates real wealth and jobs in the country is a question that needs introspection after over 30 years of a liberalised economy.

The government is clear in its messaging – be ready to be a good slave of the new century.  

While corporates complain that labour laws cannot be applicable to ‘sunrise’ industries and would mess with their ease of doing business, it is crucial to ask, aren’t fair working conditions a fundamental right, hard fought for and achieved? 

The electoral bonds scam has opened up the complex nexus between business and politics, making it visible for all to see – how favours are earned and exchanged by the top 1% even as over 800 million have to be grateful for getting ‘free’ rations.

The last 10 years have seen a remarkable disinterest in running and maintaining transport for the poor. Even in all the cacophony around development, the sounds and sights of the poor trying to catch buses and trains are buried in the background.