Prastara

Prastāra (प्रस्तार) means laying everything out in order. In Pingala’s Chandahshastra, written in India more than two thousand years ago, the prastāra is the method that writes out every pattern of a metre so that none is missed, and the Meru-prastāra — the staircase of Mount Meru — is the triangle that counts them, known in Europe centuries later as Pascal’s.

That is what Prastara does for a firm working abroad: it lays out every state of a region side by side — the risk read from the press, the measures others publish, the openings reported — so that none is missed and each can be seen against the rest.

The mark is the staircase in three rows: one choice at the top, which states to be in (strategic); two beneath it, which sectors and buyers to pursue (tactical); three at the base, the work of each day (operational).

Tenders and contract awards are the procurement notices published by the World Bank, read once a day and shown with their titles as published, in the language they were written in. Each links to the official notice, where every detail should be checked. Awards to individual consultants are left out, and no personal name is kept.

Prastara is built by RamanujTech. It shares its news-reading engine with Kautilya, RamanujTech’s geopolitical intelligence product: reporting is read in the language it was written in and scored for corroboration — not asserted as truth. Prastara lists what is reported and published; it does not advise whether to bid or invest.