
The Ecology of Engagement: What Madhav Gadgil Taught Us to See
From sacred groves to the Western Ghats, Gadgil’s work rebuilt the bridge between science and lived experience.

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From sacred groves to the Western Ghats, Gadgil’s work rebuilt the bridge between science and lived experience.

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When innovation icons turn into liability machines, it’s not chemistry that fails—it’s governance, incentives, and courage

Devangshu Dutta
Founder | Third Eyesight

15 takeaways from Part 2 of the two-part Masterclass series with former foreign secretary Shyam Saran

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As it rolls out the world’s biggest-ever election, there’s a bigger challenge confronting India’s governance systems: Heat

Archana Chaudhary
Associate Director | Climate Trends

The existential threat to human civilization is not from wars, but from nuclear disaster and climate change. This is the first in our Year End Special series on making sense of the biggest economic and geopolitical shifts and what they signal

Sundeep Waslekar
President | Strategic Foresight Group

Climate change and growing urbanisation is slowly but surely changing a way of life in Himachal Pradesh. A tale of two ordinary villages and one town that are not on the tourist map

Sveta Basraon
Editor and Head of Operations | Founding Fuel

A top-class panel of experts decodes the world of opportunity and risk on multiple fronts

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Eight experts from various fields list the defining events of the year and their impact

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December 24, 2022: On the US-China rivalry, Russia-Ukraine war, concerns about climate change, but also hope, India and China, contrarian leaders, and more

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May 27, 2022: Pioneers and institution builders; An American dream gone sour; Getting things done

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May 11, 2022: The resource crunch; Musical diplomacy; Creativity unleashed

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April 27, 2022: The flip side of going green; An eye on Pakistan; Going with the wind

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A conversation with the author of ‘Race for Tomorrow’ on how the crisis and the experiments to avert it are reshaping our world

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April 8, 2022: The fungi cleaning Delhi’s air; Most BRICs fall; How time flies

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Climate change is undoing the gains India made from the green revolution. In this extract from his book, Race for Tomorrow, Simon Mundy talks about how, in the struggle to respond, companies like Mahyco are experimenting with genetic engineering to create new super-crops

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April 4, 2022: How to work?; The carbon gap; Personal communications

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March 24, 2022: India’s Russia problem; Ventilate; What is it with Apple and history?

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March 16, 2022: A love letter; The colour of money; Management education

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March 15, 2022: Managing the economy as if people mattered; Life beyond Mastercard and Visa; Defy convention

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Unlimited energy from nuclear fusion is coming within humanity’s grasp
Samuel Pepys
Strategic analyst and commentator
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