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 half a trillion 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
Cities · Vol. I
04
Episodes / city
05
Founders on record
60+
Public seats / city
12
Chapter 02 · The Instruments
Podcast · Boardroom · Blueprint · Documentary
Instrument 01 · Roundtable Podcast Series
Not interviews. A roundtable.
Multi-episode arcs per city — Bengaluru first, then Hyderabad, Mumbai, NCR. Each season convenes the full value chain of that market: K-12 and higher-ed promoters, university founders, standalone institutions, non-formal operators, architects, designers, infrastructure partners, EPC firms, and capital — around one table, on the record.
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 only.
Instrument 03 · Annual Coffee-Table Book
The reference text of the decade.
A hardbound annual compiling the season's work — twelve founders, twelve stories; the EduInfra Index; the research findings; the city profiles; the pipeline of futuristic campuses. One volume per year, shelved as the canonical record.
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 03 · The Spine
Twelve to fifteen leaders across the full arc of how a campus gets decided, designed, financed, governed and judged. Chosen on merit — never for sale.
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Chapter 04 · The Rollout
Four cities · One launch year · Vol. I in production · II, III, IV to follow
Bengaluru
August 2026
Karnataka
The first sitting of the Circle — five episodes, twelve public seats. Filmed as the documentary centrepiece, recorded for The Big Build, photographed for Blueprint Vol. I.
Hyderabad
September 2026
Telangana
Five episodes · twelve public seats. HITEC City and ORR corridor principals on the record.
Mumbai
October 2026
Maharashtra
Five episodes · twelve public seats. MMR on the record — Navi Mumbai, Thane and the western suburbs.
NCR
November–December 2026
Delhi · Gurugram · Noida
Five episodes · twelve public seats. Delhi, Gurugram, Noida and the Jewar corridor convened as one volume.
Chapter 05 · The Cities
Each city is a season. Each season rolls into the national edition.
Plate · Confirmed venue · Vol. I · Bengaluru · Bengaluru
Chapter 07 · Partners
60+ curated decision-makers. Five named partners. One tiered prospectus — Title, Knowledge, Design, Capital, Foreign Universities.
Confirmed · Vol. I · MMXXVI
In conversation with the desk
Five tiers · ₹15L–₹1Cr · Title sponsorship still open for Vol. I
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.
