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
Founding Dean | BITS Design School, Mumbai
Economy Policy And Society
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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
Founding Dean | BITS Design School, Mumbai
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
Founding Dean | BITS Design School, Mumbai
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
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
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
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 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
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