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The energy transition is creating a brief opening in one of the hardest industrial sectors to crack. Can a new generation of Indian companies build lasting capabilities before the window closes?
Bharti Krishnan
Founder | Finetrain
A look at why standalone institutions continue to dominate postgraduate management in India, and what schools of management inside multidisciplinary universities must do if they hope to compete
S. Ramakrishna (Rama) Velamuri
Strategic Growth & Innovation Expert | Visiting Professor
From rail corridors and energy markets to missile inventories and military alliances, the world's major crises are becoming increasingly interconnected
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
Large language models can answer almost anything. The real challenge is figuring out what to ignore. An excerpt from Biju Dominic’s new book ‘MicroStimuli’
Biju Dominic
CEO and Co-Founder | Final Mile Consulting
A Vatican encyclical on artificial intelligence offers India an unexpected framework to think about sovereignty, autonomous warfare, algorithmic governance and the human costs of unchecked AI systems
Anindya Dutta
Founder | Two Roads and author
The final part in our series on the Future of Work and Agentic AI: why AI is changing the economics of intelligence itself
Arjo Basu & Debleena Majumdar
India doesn’t need another reform agenda. It needs an economy that makes building, hiring, and growing easier.
Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
India didn’t falter for lack of ideas or ambition. It faltered because too many parts of its economy were never aligned toward the outcome that mattered most—productive work at scale.
Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
Part 4 of The Future of Work and Agentic AI series: As agents begin working together, trust shifts from intelligence to standards, governance, and control.
Arjo Basu & Debleena Majumdar
Part 3 of The Future of Work and Agentic AI series: As intelligence becomes abundant, organisations stop hiring for capability and begin designing for behaviour.
Arjo Basu & Debleena Majumdar
As work becomes less visible, the systems used to measure it are starting to fail—and expose what they were really rewarding
Kavi Arasu
Leadership and Talent Development Professional
As the UAE exits OPEC, long-simmering economic and strategic divergences with Saudi Arabia begin to reshape Gulf politics and energy markets
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
India is investing billions in battery manufacturing. But without the capital to fund indigenous technology, the intelligence inside those factories may continue to be imported.
Bharti Krishnan & Mridu Jhangiani
What looks like motivation—war footage, heroic narratives, calls to crush the competition—is often something else entirely: a system of thinking that rewires how organisations see markets, customers, and themselves
Kavi Arasu
Leadership and Talent Development Professional
As human and machine learning begin to intersect, work is no longer shaped by a single reinforcement loop, but by the interaction of fundamentally different ones. Part 2 of an ongoing series on the Future of Work and Agentic AI.
Arjo Basu & Debleena Majumdar
