Vishal Gupta
Vishal Gupta is the Editorial Director of The VIA, where he leads coverage on climate, sustainability and global policy. He contributes to global conversations with analytics, insights, and informed opinions that make complex issues accessible to policymakers, business leaders, and wider audiences. He has worked closely with international organizations as a communication advisor and serves on the boards of several startups.
Articles
India’s High-Speed Road Network Is Not Infrastructure — It Is a Bold Declaration of Power
Global power is not decided in committee rooms or on paper it is built on asphalt and concrete it is built on access controlled...
Articles
Shipbuilding and the Geopolitics of Power: Why India’s Ambition is a Provocation to the World
The global shipping industry is the bloodstream of the world economy, yet its control remains concentrated in a handful of nations that dictate not...
News
Net Zero Cannot Wait: Renewable Delays Put India’s Economy and Climate Leadership at Risk
When India’s Minister for New and Renewable Energy, Pralhad Joshi, recently urged faster clearances for renewable projects, he was not merely addressing a backlog...
Opinions & Voices
Africa’s Climate Finance Is the World’s Survival Fund
When Mahamoud Ali Youssouf, Chair of the African Union Commission, declared at the Second Africa Climate Summit that climate finance must be fair, significant...
Infra
Floods & Collective Negligence: When Everyone’s Failure Becomes a Disaster
India’s floods are rarely just about the rain. To call them natural disasters is to absolve ourselves of responsibility, to pretend that swollen rivers...
News
The World Is Building Halfway: Why Our Infrastructure Fails the Environment
The world is building infrastructure at a furious pace, yet too often it is the wrong kind of infrastructure in the wrong places, chasing...
News
India-China Navigating New Diplomatic Ground: When Geopolitics Meets Economic Arithmetic
India’s relationship with foreign capital has always been shaped by two forces that often pull in opposite directions: caution and necessity. Today those forces...
