The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to India’s global opportunity

“India is on the move, from the incredible traffic pouring through its cities and interconnecting highways, to the new policy formulations emerging and taking shape out of Delhi, to the technology advances flooding out of the southern tech strongholds of Pune and Mumbai,” wrote Digest editor Jim Lane in a recent column, “You can see it in the swathes of sugar cane in the northeastern reaches of Uttar Pradesh, in the oceans of oilseeds in Maharashtra and Rajasthan, in each brickworks combusting biomass waste to generate heat, in the early stages of a biogas revolution based in press-mud, India is lifting itself out of centuries of relative poverty and vaulting into the leadership of the global bioeconomy.” What is the world situation and India’s leadership opportunity and role? Jim Lane presented these slides at a lecture at India’s National Chemical Laboratory in Pune, Maharashtra.