A walk through the arguments for cities built around footpaths, not flyovers — and what it would take for one Indian city to actually try it by 2035.
A rotating shelf of the pieces our editors think define this publication right now.
Inside the one Indian transit project that budgeted for the last mile first — and what it changed about who actually rides it.
Read the idea →Three districts stopped losing their twenty-somethings to the city. Here's what they built instead.
Read the idea →An honest, occasionally uncomfortable account of what it takes for an old institution to admit it needs to change.
Read the idea →A conversation with six writers on what identity means to a generation that grew up online and offline at once.
Read the idea →Every idea on this platform sits under one umbrella — but here's where to start if you already know what you're curious about.
Essays, arguments and observations — not news. Every idea here is someone's honest attempt to picture what comes next.
A case for redesigning the half-kilometre around every Indian school — before we redesign the curriculum inside it.
Beyond visas — a passport as a promise a nation makes to its own people first.
Why India's craft economy needs designers, not just donors.
Gig platforms promised freedom. A ground report on what they actually delivered.
The quiet, unglamorous engineering that could save a dozen Indian cities from the next flood.
Writers, builders and dreamers — each with their own answer to one question: what is your India of My Dreams?
A country where curiosity survives the classroom, not just the exam.
View profile →Institutions that earn trust in the way they fail, not just in the way they succeed.
View profile →A weaver's grandchild who chooses the loom, and can still afford to.
View profile →Work that respects the person doing it as much as the app measuring it.
View profile →A press that a fifteen-year-old still wants to grow up and join.
View profile →What should an Indian city look like in 2047?
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↗What should work look like?
↗What should an Indian passport mean?
↗Should every city have a 15-minute neighbourhood?
↗What should it mean to be Indian?
↗We believe the future of India shouldn't be imagined by governments, corporations and institutions alone. It should be imagined by all of us. Tell us what India could — and should — become.
You don't have to be a writer. You just need an idea.
India of My Dreams is an open editorial initiative dedicated to constructive optimism. We move beyond everyday headlines to give space to long-term ideas, actionable civic visions, and voices shaping India's socio-cultural and economic future.
We feature forward-looking essays on public infrastructure, education, ecology, and technology that offer tangible paths forward.
From researchers in tier-3 cities to artisans and technologists, we bring together diverse viewpoints across generations and geography.
Believing that national imagination belongs to everyone, we maintain a low barrier for public submissions and community dialogue.