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.

Aviation Is Not About Airports — It Is About Who Truly Owns the Sky

The story of aviation is too often reduced to glossy statistics. Passenger traffic is counted, terminals are inaugurated, and airlines announce new routes as...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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