Design & Build · Series Partner
The Collective Infra ↗
Knowledge Partner
ANAROCK ↗
Between now and 2035, India will build four billion square feet of academic infrastructure — the largest such build-out in human history. The city-by-city record of how it gets built, and who builds it.
The Thesis · The Evidence
The Thesis
India is entering an academic build-out without precedent — four billion square feet of campuses, across thirty thousand acres, requiring a hundred billion dollars of capital across the decade.
Anarock has called it the largest single demand wave in Indian real estate. It will outweigh everything India has built for education in the last seventy years combined.
The EduInfra Circle exists to document this transformation as it happens — one city at a time. Bengaluru. Hyderabad. Mumbai. NCR. Each city, a season; each season, a permanent record.
The Evidence
4B+
New academic built-up area required
Square feet · 2026–2035
30K
Land aggregation across the decade
Acres · Pan-India
$100B
Capital deployment opportunity
USD · Education decade · 2026–2035
Chapter 01 · The Instruments
Podcast · Boardroom · Blueprint · Documentary
Instrument 01 · Podcast and Film Series
Six pieces. One flagship film, five themed roundtables.
Vol. I is recorded in Bengaluru across August 2026 and unveiled to the room on 22 September at the Taj West End. The flagship, The Hundred-Year Bet, follows the making of a landmark international branch campus — filmed mid-construction. Five themed roundtables follow: The Ground, The Build (anchored by EDI), The Alliance, The Handoff, The Verdict.
Instrument 02 · Closed-Door Dinner
Where the podcast is launched.
A vetted, off-the-record dinner that anchors each city's season — the room where the recording is unveiled and the conversation continues without microphones. Founders, allocators and architects of record, by invitation and reservation.
Instrument 03 · Annual Coffee-Table Book
The reference text of the decade.
A hardbound annual compiling the season's work. 384 folios, 24 ranked operators, 12 architecture practices, 8 capital allocators, the EduInfra Index, city profiles and the pipeline of futuristic campuses. Ratified by the Editorial Council. Published Q4 2026.
Instrument 04 · Documentary Series
The build-out, on film.
A cinematic chronicle of the people physically taking Indian education infrastructure to its next level — the architects, the promoters, the crews, the sites. Project by project, episode by episode, city by city.
Chapter 02 · The Cities
Each city is a season. Each season rolls into the national edition.
Plate · Confirmed venue · Taj West End · Bengaluru
Chapter 03 · Partners
Three confirmed founding partners for Vol. I. Knowledge, Design, and Series. Further partners are announced only on confirmation.
Confirmed · Vol. I · MMXXVI
Further partners announced on confirmation.
Open the prospectusThe Circle · Manifesto
"India will build more academic square footage in the next ten years than in the last seventy. Someone has to keep the record."
Four instruments. One canon. The Big Build · The Boardroom · The Blueprint · Building Bharat. Convened by AGMV.
