#BTDavos2026: Bharat Kaushal On Why Japan Sees India As Its Biggest Long-Term Bet

At the India Showcase Roundtable at BT Davos 2026, themed “Building India: Infrastructure, Scale & the Next Global Opportunity,” Siddharth Zarabi, Group Editor, Business Today, is in an exclusive conversation with Dr Bharat Kaushal, Managing Director of Hitachi India. The discussion explores how global investors, particularly from Japan- view India’s long-term growth story and infrastructure push. Dr Kaushal highlights Japan’s role as a source of patient capital, decades of collaboration in heavy engineering, and recent large-scale investments in railways, power, and digital infrastructure. The conversation underscores India’s unique opportunity to build physical and digital infrastructure together, attract long-term foreign capital, and unlock next-generation growth across sectors such as energy, transport, data centres, and industrial AI. 

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