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Built to Move, Designed to Stop

Why India’s systems keep interrupting its own momentum

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Ajay Chacko

Director | Keya Foods International

The War in Iran: The Illusion of Decisive Force

One month in, the limits of conventional military power are being laid bare. As a “dual chokehold” on global energy flows emerges, the old security umbrella of the Gulf states is being dismantled. It is forcing a permanent re-pricing of both regional and global risk.

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Vivek Y. Kelkar

Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability

The Economy We Have, Not the One We Imagined

Why the Gulf crisis may be India’s moment for the next phase of reform

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Haresh Chawla

Investor | Entrepreneur

The Knowledge Divide: How AI Will Reorganise Work, Margins, and Power

As AI agents embed intelligence into systems, the real shift is not automation—but how knowledge is owned, shared, and scaled across organisations

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Arjo Basu

Systems thinker & technologist | Entrepreneur

Designing for Signal

A conversation between Charles Assisi and Shrinath V on rebuilding Founding Fuel

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Charles Assisi

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

The Hallucination in the Room

When producing things is mistaken for thinking: AI hasn’t created this habit—it has simply made it faster and harder to spot. Revealing the gap between output and judgement inside organisations

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Kavi Arasu

Works at the intersection of people, systems, and organisational change

Editor’s Note | Sharpening the Signal

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Founding Fuel

How Iran Is Turning the Global Economy Into a Battlefield

As the conflict with the United States and Israel intensifies, Iran’s new leadership is signalling a prolonged confrontation—one that combines conventional warfare with pressure on global energy flows and supply chains.

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Vivek Y. Kelkar

Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability

The US–Israel War on Iran: The Risks to India’s Strategic Hedging

Energy dependence, remittance flows and trade corridors reveal how deeply India’s economy is tied to stability in West Asia. Part II of a two-part series.

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Vivek Y. Kelkar

Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability

The US–Israel War on Iran: Energy, Power and Regional Disruption

Energy chokepoints, proxy escalation and great-power recalibration are reshaping the Gulf and unsettling the global order. Part I of a two-part series.

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Vivek Y. Kelkar

Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability

Tariffs Are the Noise. Realignment Is the Signal

Even if Trump’s tariffs disappear, the forces reshaping global trade—geopolitics, security concerns and reconfigured regional blocs—are here to stay

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Vivek Y. Kelkar

Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability

When Data Is Right but Decisions Go Wrong

Strategy fails not from lack of information, but from outdated assumptions about what it implies

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Debleena Majumdar

Entrepreneur & business leader | Author

The Blind Spots of India Inc

Disability inclusion, leadership imagination, and the limits of intent

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Subhashis Sinha

Professor of Practice, HR & Behavioural Sciences | School of Business Management, NMIMS Mumbai

India’s AI Moment

As major powers turn artificial intelligence towards science and national security, India must widen its AI vision beyond inclusion and productivity

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Pankaj Saran

Convenor | NatStrat

Redesigning Work—or Retreating to Control

Why the real risk in the return-to-office debate isn’t resistance, but the quiet erosion of judgement and capability

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Kavi Arasu

Works at the intersection of people, systems, and organisational change