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July 16, 2025

Hiding in Plane Sight

Last week, the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) of India released its preliminary report on the Air India 171 plane crash, which occurred on June 12, 2025. The media quickly focused on a specific detail in the report that mentioned a ‘fuel cutoff switch’ and a paraphrased conversation between the…
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May 30, 2025

Delay, Deny, Deduct

India spends about 3% of its GDP, or around $120 billion, on healthcare. There are approximately 400 million households in India, which averages to a household spend of ₹2000 per month on healthcare. About 70% of India’s population is covered by government insurance, social health schemes, and private insurance. That…
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March 26, 2025

Bridging the DPI Divide

Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) is a transformational approach that has the potential to deliver population-scale economic and social progress, and ensure environmental equity. Using digital transformation, open data, and open APIs, DPI promises resilient communities, responsive governments, and an improved quality of life for all. The Digital India Stack has…
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March 7, 2025

Non-Alignment, Bokaro, and the Cold War

I grew up in Bokaro when it was a part of Bihar. My father was an engineer at the steel plant, which was being built with Soviet assistance. Growing up, I learned words like Spasiba and Dasvidanya before I knew the equivalents in my native language, Malayalam. Russian families shared…
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October 9, 2024

Enabling Population-Scale Services

By ensuring that APIs for authentication and authorization are provided as Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI). Digital Identity and Digital Registries are the foundational blocks for authentication and authorization.
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August 19, 2024

Accelerating Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

The UN estimates the annual financing gap for achieving SDGs at $4.2 trillion. Even if we were to address this gap, the bigger issue is a lack of quality data on where and what investments will have the maximum impact.The Metraa Framework provides a 'data for development' infrastructure that leverages…
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August 19, 2024

Hawkai Data CXP – From Data to Services

How do you use Generative AI to accelerate software development? Not by having machines write code for you, but by automating the DATA (Digitize, Analyze, Transform, Activate) process. Watch how Hawkai Data CXP uses Large Numerical Models (LNMs) to automatically detect data types and store and index data appropriately uses prompts…