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A Conscience With a Ticker Symbol

A Conscience With a Ticker Symbol

Anthropic’s IPO filing lays bare a fundamental tension in the AI business: can a company committed to safety withstand the demands of investors, governments and an accelerating technological race?

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Anindya Dutta

Anindya Dutta

Founder | Two Roads and author

The 10-Minute State

The 10-Minute State

Why the next leap in digital governance is about certainty, not speed

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Ajay Chacko

Ajay Chacko

Director | Keya Foods International

Guarding the Grain

Guarding the Grain

Every new check on India’s ration system was meant to stop theft. None was designed to ask who gets turned away when it fails.

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Nandita Abraham

Nandita Abraham

Founding Dean | BITS Design School, Mumbai

What Gen Z is watching—and why

What Gen Z is watching—and why

Three Gen Z writers share the films and shows that made them laugh, cry, question power—and occasionally want to become better people.

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Nayantara Assisi

Nayantara Assisi

Third year Student | St Xavier's College

What a Lasting Tata Settlement Must Resolve

What a Lasting Tata Settlement Must Resolve

Ahead of Tata Sons’ pending AGM, the fight over leadership and listing is widening. A lasting settlement must resolve who decides, how capital is used and whose interests count.

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Satish Pradhan

Satish Pradhan

Independent Consultant

Who Was the School Day Built For?

Who Was the School Day Built For?

India’s school system was built to educate at scale. Its classrooms, exams and incentives reveal what that design rewards—and the individual child it struggles to see.

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Nandita Abraham

Nandita Abraham

Founding Dean | BITS Design School, Mumbai

Who Owns the Fire?

Who Owns the Fire?

A leader can light the spark. The harder question is what happens to the fire afterwards?

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Satish Pradhan

Satish Pradhan

Independent Consultant

Forget the Timers. Fix the Ground.

Forget the Timers. Fix the Ground.

Top-down restrictions often teach kids how to outsmart the rules rather than manage themselves. Here is why an indirect approach works when direct prohibition fails.

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N S Ramnath

N S Ramnath

Senior Editor | Founding Fuel

The Battle for the Tata Inheritance

The Battle for the Tata Inheritance

The struggle inside Tata Trusts is exposing a question that goes far beyond personalities: can an unusual compact between philanthropy, ownership and corporate power survive the loss of the steward who held it together?

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Indrajit Gupta

Indrajit Gupta

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

One state, several images

One state, several images

The Indian state does not feel the same to everyone. Those everyday encounters shape trust—and reveal what national averages can hide.

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Arjo Basu

Arjo Basu

Systems thinker & technologist | Entrepreneur

What Sits Upstream of the KPI

What Sits Upstream of the KPI

Every KPI carries a strategic hypothesis. The real work of governance is to preserve that reasoning and create a trusted path for evidence to travel back.

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Debleena Majumdar
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Arjo Basu

Debleena Majumdar & Arjo Basu

Be Unreasonable

Be Unreasonable

How photographer Amit Verma turned a series of unconventional and “unreasonable” bets into a distinctive body of work—and a reputation to match.

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Charles Assisi

Charles Assisi

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

Who Was India's Healthcare Built For?

Who Was India's Healthcare Built For?

India has spent eight decades bringing healthcare within reach. But roads, trust, gender and the freedom to be sick still determine who can actually use it.

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Nandita Abraham

Nandita Abraham

Founding Dean | BITS Design School, Mumbai

The Real Question Behind a Tata Sons Listing

The Real Question Behind a Tata Sons Listing

The debate is not simply about an IPO. It is about whether patient capital, stewardship and social purpose depend upon privacy, or can be protected through a different institutional architecture.

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Indrajit Gupta

Indrajit Gupta

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

Tools and the Shape of Us

Tools and the Shape of Us

How to stop wasting time on tools without going deaf to what is changing

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Kavi Arasu

Kavi Arasu

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

Making Geopolitics a Business Capability

Making Geopolitics a Business Capability

Indian companies are more alert to geopolitics. The task now is to turn that awareness into capability: map dependencies, protect what matters, adapt the enterprise, and find competitive advantage in fragmentation.

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G Venkat Raman

G Venkat Raman

Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences | Indian Institute of Management, Indore