Dialogue: Who said what, on the record?
Policy, positions and the terms of the bargain, read carefully. Every Vayam story is filed under one of four doors — Discovery, Community, Venture, Dialogue — so you can walk in through the question you already have.
The 2047 tax holiday, read carefully: the concrete must be Indian, but only on paper
India will not tax foreign cloud firms' global income from Indian data centres until 2047. An August amendment lowered the gates further. What the bargain asks for in return is thinner than it sounds.
India can write its own AI. It cannot yet make the thing that runs it
Sarvam and BharatGen trained Indian models on Indian soil. Underneath them sits imported silicon, and the terms of import are written in Washington. A floor-by-floor walk through India's AI stack.
IndiaAI rents its GPUs by the hour. The numbers show who pays for them
The IndiaAI Mission owns almost none of its 45,000-odd GPUs. It empanels private operators and pays part of the bill. Here is what that has bought, and what it has not.
A desk for the buildings with no windows
India's newest heavy industry has no chimney and no shift horn. It has land, power, water, subsidies and a cable landing. Why Vayam is opening a desk for it.