Discover what's capturing attention across the Founding Fuel network this week.
Energy chokepoints, proxy escalation and great-power recalibration are reshaping the Gulf and unsettling the global order. Part I of a two-part series.
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
Even if Trump’s tariffs disappear, the forces reshaping global trade—geopolitics, security concerns and reconfigured regional blocs—are here to stay
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
Strategy fails not from lack of information, but from outdated assumptions about what it implies
Debleena Majumdar
Entrepreneur & business leader | Author
Disability inclusion, leadership imagination, and the limits of intent
Subhashis Sinha
Professor of Practice, HR & Behavioural Sciences | School of Business Management, NMIMS Mumbai
As major powers turn artificial intelligence towards science and national security, India must widen its AI vision beyond inclusion and productivity
Pankaj Saran
Convenor | NatStrat
Why the real risk in the return-to-office debate isn’t resistance, but the quiet erosion of judgement and capability
Kavi Arasu
Leadership and Talent Development Professional
Speed is not strategy. The real battle is over sovereignty, science and state capacity
Founding Fuel
What India’s agreements with the US and EU reveal about power, policy space, and calibrated accommodation
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
Why India’s AI moment will be decided less by models—and more by how intelligence is applied, governed, and trusted
Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
On prompting, intent, and the discipline of asking well
Debleena Majumdar
Entrepreneur & business leader | Author
Another 50 tech IPOs won’t build a middle class
Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
Why a civilisation that thinks in eternity still struggles to plan in decades
Ajay Chacko
Director | Keya Foods International
An eight-week teaching programme unsettles long-held assumptions about rigour, expertise, and what it truly means to help students learn
Uma Narain
Former Founding Dean | School of Liberal Arts, NMIMS University
Carrier strike groups, nuclear deadlines and a brittle regime in Tehran are converging on a moment where Washington may discover that every move—strike, sabotage or restraint—ends in escalation
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
Artificial intelligence is superb at optimisation. But transformation still comes from the deviations leaders choose to back.
Debleena Majumdar
Entrepreneur & business leader | Author
