Who Builds the Next Bhabha Movement?
Can India build a new compact between the state, science, industry and entrepreneurs?
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S. Raghotham
Journalist and strategic analyst
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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
Works at the intersection of people, systems, and organisational change
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
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences | Indian Institute of Management, Indore
India looks stable. But trust is becoming conditional
A generation of Indians appears to be shifting from inherited faith in institutions to a running audit of their performance. That change could outlast any government—and reshape the risks facing anyone making long-term bets on the country.
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Arjo Basu
Systems thinker & technologist | Entrepreneur
The Brief for a Country
Three basic needs. Sixty years of policy choices. A country still living with the trade-offs. How India designed for food, livelihoods and shelter—and who those choices left out.
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Nandita Abraham
Founding Dean | BITS Design School, Mumbai
Can you buy the future without learning from it?
When incumbents buy, partner or outsource the capabilities demanded by each new disruption, they may solve today’s problem. The harder question is whether the parent company itself is still learning.
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
The Case for Knowing Things You Don’t Need to Know
The things we learn outside our fields may sharpen how we see the world. But perhaps they matter most when we stop asking what they are useful for
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Kavi Arasu
Works at the intersection of people, systems, and organisational change
The Ramayana and The Many Languages of Truth
Myth, Legend, History, Fact. Exploring the truths the Ramayana reveals about history, faith and ourselves
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Vijay Bhat
Founder-Director | Roots & Wings Consulting Services
The Race to Reinvent Nuclear Power
A Danish startup wants to take a faster road to thorium and manufacture nuclear reactors by the thousands. Its audacious bet raises a question for India: what happens if the nuclear world changes before Homi Bhabha’s long-term vision is complete?
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S. Raghotham
Journalist and strategic analyst
The Healing Kitchen
Many try to fix health with separate diets or willpower. A better way is to design the kitchen itself, so the easiest choice is also the healthy one—for everyone in the family.
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Hiteshi Dhami Shah
Clinical Nutritionist
Why We Need Good Friction in the Age of AI
AI can make us better at knowing, deciding and executing. The leadership challenge is knowing which struggles to remove—and which ones we need to preserve.
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Varun Nagaraj
Dean and Professor of Information Management and Analytics | S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai
How Rogue AI Agents Could Blindside India
India is moving quickly to put autonomous AI systems to work. But is its capacity to govern them keeping pace?
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Anindya Dutta
Founder | Two Roads and author
Built to Last in an Age of Continuous Change
AI is making information and analysis abundant. The harder strategic question is knowing what must change—and what must endure
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Debleena Majumdar & Arjo Basu
Embracing the Mess
AI can master discrete tasks. But judgment, relationships and responsibility are messy—and that may be exactly where humans matter most
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
The Business of Wastewater Is Changing
The biggest competitive advantage in India's wastewater industry may no longer be better treatment technology. It may be the ability to finance, own and operate long-term water infrastructure.
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Bharti Krishnan
Founder | Finetrain
What Happened to Just Being Stupid?
The young professionals who don't want AI to think for them
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Ipsita Bandyopadhyay
Head of Research and Strategy | Quipper Research
The Story That Refuses to Die
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is more than another adaptation of Homer's epic. It is an invitation to rediscover why one ancient story continues to illuminate the human condition nearly three thousand years after it was first told.
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Uma Narain
Former Founding Dean | School of Liberal Arts, NMIMS University
The Institution in the Machine—AI’s Escape from its Sandbox
The OpenAI incident is less about rogue machines than about a deeper shift: AI is becoming part of the cognitive architecture of modern institutions
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Satish Pradhan
Independent Consultant
Why Garfield Sobers Still Defines Cricketing Greatness
The six sixes made Sir Garfield Sobers famous. They barely explain why those who watched, played with and knew him still speak of him with such awe.
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Anindya Dutta
Founder | Two Roads and author
What My Body Was Trying to Tell Me
A conversation with a sports medicine doctor—and an unexpected health scare—changed the way I think about exercise, ageing and what it means to stay strong
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
How the Iran War Is Reshaping the Global Economy
The conflict is no longer just a military confrontation. It is rapidly becoming a struggle over the global energy system, maritime trade and geoeconomic power—with the Gulf caught in the middle
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Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
When More Intelligence Makes Strategy Harder
AI has made intelligence abundant. Why, then, is strategy becoming harder?
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Debleena Majumdar & Arjo Basu
Why AI Needs a New Safety Architecture
Artificial intelligence is advancing faster than governments can govern it. A new report argues that extreme AI risks demand a fundamentally different approach to global governance.
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Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
The Courage to Be Tested Again
What an examination taught me that four decades of experience could not
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Indranil Gupta
Founder Director | BrandNEW Associates
Burgenstock and the New Reality of Power in the Middle East
The US-Iran talks in Switzerland may have reduced the immediate risk of war. But they did little to alter the Middle East's underlying balance of power. Iran remains central to the region's strategic calculations, Israel's concerns remain unresolved, and American leverage appears more limited than many assumed.
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Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
The Question AI Cannot Ask
The real advantage in an AI-driven world may not be answering questions better, but knowing which questions matter
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Anindya Dutta
Founder | Two Roads and author
Noticing: The Forgotten Skill of a Modern Life
The future changes when someone pauses long enough to ask a simple question: Why?
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Kavi Arasu
Works at the intersection of people, systems, and organisational change
Democratising Capacity Creation
Why India’s next manufacturing push may require trusting entrepreneurs more than planners
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Ajay Chacko
Director | Keya Foods International
The 33kV Wall
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?
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Bharti Krishnan
Founder | Finetrain
My 10 Best Business Books of Summer 2026
The best books of the year so far—on disagreeing constructively, culture, strategic subtraction, genius, China's advantage, an India you think you know, creativity, establishment paralysis, imposter syndrome, and reimagining your career
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
Why India’s Universities Struggle to Build Great Business Schools
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
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S. Ramakrishna (Rama) Velamuri
Strategic Growth & Innovation Expert | Visiting Professor
The Age of Connected Crises
From rail corridors and energy markets to missile inventories and military alliances, the world's major crises are becoming increasingly interconnected
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Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
Why More Information Won't Make Better Decisions
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’
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Biju Dominic
CEO and Co-Founder | Final Mile Consulting
The Machine That Must Not Kill
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
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Anindya Dutta
Founder | Two Roads and author
When Thinking Starts Making Noise
As speech-to-text tools become eerily good, they are changing not just how we write, but how we think, remember, and inhabit private space
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
The Price of Intelligence
The final part in our series on the Future of Work and Agentic AI: why AI is changing the economics of intelligence itself
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Arjo Basu & Debleena Majumdar
The Drift Towards Busyness
A management consultant reflects on how modern corporate life slowly rewards motion without intentionality—and why protecting space for life beyond work has become a conscious discipline.
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Nikhil Sethi
Advisor on strategy and transformation
The “Chill Maadi” Family that Made It Across the World’s Highest Hikeable Pass
A Bengaluru family with no mountaineering background spent eight months preparing for the Annapurna Circuit—and discovered that ordinary people may be capable of far more than they imagine.
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Sanjay Swamy
Co-Founder and Managing Partner | Prime