Introducing Essential India, our latest newsletter

Our latest newsletter, Essential India, helps you understand a vast and complicated country that will increasingly shape the future. The weekly newsletter, which will be sent on Thursdays from November 9th, is free to receive.

India has become essential for globally curious readers to understand. It has the world’s biggest population and in recent years has had one of its fastest-growing economies, with a large and thriving business and tech scene. It is the world’s biggest democracy, an almost miraculous achievement for such a poor and diverse country—even if its politics has grown increasingly authoritarian under Narendra Modi.

Each week our correspondents will share their insights on the big Indian news and business developments, keeping you in the loop with everything from electoral politics to social trends, technology and cricket.

Next spring Indians will vote in the country’s general election, with Mr Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party on course to repeat its landslide victory of 2019. That outcome will, among much else, affect India’s rise to great-power status. In hock neither to China nor America, and a self-styled leader of the global south, India is a rising colossus unlike any other.

Let Essential India be your guide to these monumental developments. By signing up to this newsletter, you will get all of our India coverage in one place.

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