three stories you've already read.

now argue them. the case pack was the pre-read. one question per case. there are no neutral answers in this room.

the licence raj collapses

for four decades, producing almost anything in India needed a government licence: what to make, how much, where. in 1991 the country nearly ran out of dollars, and in one budget the permission system was dismantled. what rushed into that vacuum built the India you live in.

jio: predatory pricing at scale

september 2016: jio launches with data free for six months. the industry called it predatory. customers called it a miracle. by the time the dust settled, india's telecom map had three private survivors and the cheapest data on earth.

the onion price crisis

unseasonal rains destroy the onion crop. supply collapses. and demand, it turns out, barely moves: the indian kitchen does not negotiate on onions. prices multiply, governments panic, exports get banned, and an election-season vegetable becomes a national security item.