Niket Gupta

MBA candidate at IIM Shillong and former Deloitte consultant. Essays on business and geopolitics, and poetry.

Essays

• The World’s Narrowest Economic Throat: The Strait of Hormuz in 2026 - If the global economy has a jugular vein, it is the Strait of Hormuz: 33 km of water that carries a fifth of the world's oil.
• Pieter Elbers Resigns as IndiGo CEO - Months after the late-2025 operational meltdown, IndiGo's CEO steps down and co-founder Rahul Bhatia returns to the controls.
• Business Impact of PSLV Failure on India - The PSLV-C62 loss rippled from national security to startups to small machine shops. A look at who pays for a failed launch.
• A Review: Children of Men - Cuarón's dystopia of a world without births, read as a film about refugees, the state, and the limits of force.
• The Chess Game: American Beauty, and the Sacrifice - Mikhail Tal, Frank Marshall, and two very different philosophies of giving up the queen.

Poetry

• Downhill
• Harbinger
• The Demise
• The Ghost