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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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Toxic Greed: How a $12.5 Billion Crisis Exposed a Global Corporate Failure
When innovation icons turn into liability machines, it’s not chemistry that fails—it’s governance, incentives, and courage
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Devangshu Dutta
Founder | Third Eyesight
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Masterclass: The World in 2025 - Part 2
15 takeaways from Part 2 of the two-part Masterclass series with former foreign secretary Shyam Saran
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The Indian economy is in danger of suffering a heatstroke
As it rolls out the world’s biggest-ever election, there’s a bigger challenge confronting India’s governance systems: Heat
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Archana Chaudhary
Associate Director | Climate Trends
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Is the world increasingly becoming a dangerous place to live?
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
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Sundeep Waslekar
President | Strategic Foresight Group
·Climate & Environmental Sustainability
A river in spate, landslides and nature’s fury
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
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Sveta Basraon
Editor and Head of Operations | Founding Fuel
·Strategic Affairs & Geopolitics
Masterclass: The World in 2023
A top-class panel of experts decodes the world of opportunity and risk on multiple fronts
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The World in 2022: Events that shaped our world
Eight experts from various fields list the defining events of the year and their impact
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The best stories of 2022
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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FF Insights #660: The Big Tech hypocrisy
May 27, 2022: Pioneers and institution builders; An American dream gone sour; Getting things done
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FF Insights #648: ‘If India and China stood together…’
May 11, 2022: The resource crunch; Musical diplomacy; Creativity unleashed
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FF Insights #639: What’s in a name?
April 27, 2022: The flip side of going green; An eye on Pakistan; Going with the wind
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Making Sense of the Climate Crisis with Simon Mundy
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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FF Insights #627: A chance to be something specific
April 8, 2022: The fungi cleaning Delhi’s air; Most BRICs fall; How time flies
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The race for food security
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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FF Insights #623: The economic landscape
April 4, 2022: How to work?; The carbon gap; Personal communications
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FF Insights #616: Slow food
March 24, 2022: India’s Russia problem; Ventilate; What is it with Apple and history?
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FF Insights #611: An eye on renewable energy
March 16, 2022: A love letter; The colour of money; Management education
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·Development & State Capacity
FF Insights #610: What are your ambitions?
March 15, 2022: Managing the economy as if people mattered; Life beyond Mastercard and Visa; Defy convention
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Day of the starmakers
Unlimited energy from nuclear fusion is coming within humanity’s grasp
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Samuel Pepys
Strategic analyst and commentator
·Development & State Capacity
FF Insights #586: Us versus Them
February 9, 2022: The mystery of empty planes; Why Spotify wins; It’s elementary
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FF Insights #576: The human cost of fossil fuels
January 25, 2022: India is hurting; Social media’s driving force; Plain speak
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·Global Trade and Geoeconomics
Top Ten books of 2021
This year’s list reflects and helps us decode a lot that has changed since the pandemic
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
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FF Daily #555: The tell
December 22, 2021: Masterclass: The World in 2022; On paradoxes; Contemporary philosophy
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Masterclass: The World in 2022
What is the global impact of the US-China tussle? Is Asia rising? What about global economic recovery and sustainability? Kanti Bajpai, Viral Acharya, Nicholas Parker, and Sundeep Waslekar offer a multidisciplinary view on the key drivers of change
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·Climate & Environmental Sustainability
FF Daily #527: When opposites coexist
November 19, 2021: China’s big plans for nuclear; The rise of MetaKovan Sundaresan; Generation gap
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FF Daily #515: Faith and science
November 5, 2021: Greta’s Dilemma; Work-life relationships; Summits explained
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·Climate & Environmental Sustainability
The games we play with each other
Solutions for problems such as climate change are unlikely to come from experts who rely on numbers, and from economists who rely on self-interest and the invisible hand for progress. This is part of a zero sum, competitive, narrative. But nature is complex and insists on cooperation
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Arun Maira
Former Chairman, BCG India | Member, Planning Commission
·Climate & Environmental Sustainability
The climate crisis: We need cooperation, not competition
The world needs new explanations of how complex systems evolve to save itself from catastrophe. Theories of progress must put cooperation—at all levels—in the foreground, and look beyond national self-interest
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Arun Maira
Former Chairman, BCG India | Member, Planning Commission
·Development & State Capacity
FF Daily #501: The connection between beauty and function
October 18, 2021: Do MLAs matter?; Behind Xi Jinping’s throne; Life is unfair
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