India 2035 : Four scenarios for future

India 2035: Four Future Scenarios is Turian Labs’ strategic foresight exploration of the forces that could shape India’s next decade.

Moving beyond linear forecasts, the report presents four distinct yet plausible futures, ranging from India as the world’s cognitive workforce, to a climate-fragile food system, a hydrogen-powered green industrial nation, and a sovereign spacefaring power. It then unpacks the key shifts shaping uncertainty across social, technological, economic, environmental, political, and values domains, grounding each shift in data, policy signals, and lived realities.

Using a rigorous key-factor and morphological analysis, the study examines 14 critical systems - from energy and food resilience to compute sovereignty, labour models, public trust, and space capability and tests how different combinations of these forces could evolve. These combinations culminate in four richly written scenario narratives, each detailing the texture of daily life, catalyst chains, fault lines, and strategic implications for policy, industry, and society.The report concludes with an epilogue that reframes scenarios as navigational tools, helping leaders move beyond prediction toward capability-building, so India can remain resilient, relevant, and sovereign across multiple possible futures.

We are happy to share these here (highly compressed version - write to us for High Res version at connect@turianlabs.com) with the world as a labor of love for Futures Thinking from India. You are free to use these scenarios with due credit to Turian Labs :).