https://vamsiudayagiri.com/vuspeaks.html Field notes, essays and ideas on formalizing Bharat, distribution, trust and building for the last mile. en Sat, 04 Jul 2026 19:19:18 +0000 https://vamsiudayagiri.com/vuspeaks.html#formalizing-bharat https://vamsiudayagiri.com/vuspeaks.html#formalizing-bharat Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Thesis For decades we've described rural India in the language of deficit. I've come to believe the opposite — the last mile is where the largest untapped economy in the world is waiting to be switched on. https://vamsiudayagiri.com/vuspeaks.html#last-mile-is-first https://vamsiudayagiri.com/vuspeaks.html#last-mile-is-first Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 VU Speaks Build for the village first, and everything upstream gets stronger. Treat it as an afterthought, and no amount of capital will get you the last hundred metres. https://vamsiudayagiri.com/vuspeaks.html#trust-across-villages https://vamsiudayagiri.com/vuspeaks.html#trust-across-villages Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 ROHA Capital can buy you a launch. It cannot buy you a second transaction. In rural markets, trust behaves less like a marketing spend and more like an interest-bearing asset.