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What If We Could Manufacture Bamboo Without Growing Bamboo?
AI, biomimicry and materials science are beginning to ask an extraordinary question: can we learn from bamboo’s architecture and manufacture its advantages without continually harvesting the plant? Imagine walking into a furniture showroom sometime in the future. You pick up a beautifully finished panel. It is light, strong and slightly flexible. It feels remarkably natural,…
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The Quantiq Sunday Brief: 6 Signals Shaping AI, Technology & Innovation
AI is becoming ordinary. What happens next is much more interesting. For years, the technology conversation revolved around increasingly powerful AI models. Every week brought another launch, another benchmark and another promise that artificial intelligence was about to change everything. Something is shifting. AI is now moving quietly into cybersecurity, semiconductor manufacturing, scientific research, climate…
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How Kerala Tourism Became a Super Brand
Brand & Media Intelligence | The Quantiq Kerala did not become one of India’s most recognisable tourism brands simply because it had beaches, backwaters, mountains, Ayurveda and lush greenery. India has no shortage of beautiful places. What Kerala did differently was to spend decades turning a collection of attractions into a coherent promise in the…
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Dima Hasao Does Not Need to Become Another Meghalaya
The real opportunity is not to divert tourists from Meghalaya, but to build a destination brand that attracts people for its own reasons. For a brief period recently, a conversation began travelling through Assam’s tourism ecosystem faster than any official tourism campaign could have managed. Could Dima Hasao become an alternative to Meghalaya? The immediate…
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From Civil Services Dream to Nominated Director of a Central PSU: Life Crafted a Different Story for Santanu Sutradhar
Founder Series | The Quantiq Santanu Sutradhar left Assam for Delhi with a civil services dream. He returned to Silchar in 1999 with six or seven artisans and an idea to take the handicrafts of his hometown to markets beyond the region. Twenty-seven years later, his journey has taken him to international markets and the…
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The Quantiq Mid-Week Update:5 Signals You May Have Missed This Week
The news cycle is full of headlines. But some of the most interesting developments rarely make it to the front page. They are the quiet breakthroughs, unusual experiments and structural shifts that could tell us more about tomorrow than today’s biggest headlines. This week’s five signals take us from India’s changing inflation picture to quantum…
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Rice to Fabric: Can Northeast India Turn Paddy Straw into a New Textile Industry?
Northeast Renaissance Series Assam grows rice by the millions of tonnes. What if some of the value of that harvest lies not in the grain, but in what is left behind? Every harvest leaves something behind. In Assam’s paddy fields, one of the most abundant of those leftovers is paddy straw. For generations, the grain…
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What Matters This Week: 5 Signals to Watch Before They Become Headlines
Some Mondays begin with a long list of headlines. This one begins with something more interesting: several apparently unrelated developments that are pointing towards the same larger shift. The BRICS summit in New Delhi has put critical minerals, resilient supply chains, AI and cross-border payments firmly on the global agenda. India is moving closer to…
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AI’s Great Paradox: The Race Accelerates as Its Leaders Ask Us to Slow Down
The Quantiq | Sunday AI & Technology Update From Anthropic’s internal warnings and Sam Altman’s call to “pace the frontier” to AI solving a major mathematical problem, India putting agents into government and humanoid robots entering production—the AI story is rapidly moving from intelligence to agency and physical power. Artificial intelligence is entering a more…
