Reform 3.0: What Has to Change

India doesn’t need another reform agenda. It needs an economy that makes building, hiring, and growing easier.

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Haresh Chawla

Investor | Entrepreneur

Reform 3.0: Why India Keeps Missing the Mountain

India didn’t falter for lack of ideas or ambition. It faltered because too many parts of its economy were never aligned toward the outcome that mattered most—productive work at scale.

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Haresh Chawla

Investor | Entrepreneur

The System China Built, and India Has Yet to Understand

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G Venkat Raman

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

India Is Asking the Wrong Question About AI

Why India’s AI moment will be decided less by models—and more by how intelligence is applied, governed, and trusted

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Haresh Chawla

Investor | Entrepreneur

Trendspotting 2026: India Cannot App Its Way to Prosperity

Another 50 tech IPOs won’t build a middle class

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Haresh Chawla

Investor | Entrepreneur

Between Jugaad and Destiny: India’s Missing Medium Term

Why a civilisation that thinks in eternity still struggles to plan in decades

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Ajay Chacko

Director | Keya Foods International

America’s Iran Trap Is Closing

Carrier strike groups, nuclear deadlines and a brittle regime in Tehran are converging on a moment where Washington may discover that every move—strike, sabotage or restraint—ends in escalation

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Vivek Y. Kelkar

Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability

Iran at the Brink: Five Scenarios That Could Reshape the Region

Economic collapse, political revolt and great-power rivalry converge in Iran’s most dangerous moment in decades.

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Vivek Y. Kelkar

Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability

Rivers, Bronzes and the Architecture of Ambition

What the Chola trail reveals about power, systems, memory, and coffee

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Vijay Bhat

Founder-Director | Roots & Wings Consulting Services

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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Test cricket’s second innings

With the right positioning, Test cricket can become a premium cultural product — and a powerful tourism engine. The BCCI is uniquely placed to lead that shift.

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Shravan Bhat

Journalist | Power Finance & Risk

Understanding the Living Will—Clarity, Autonomy, and Care at the End of Life

Why talking about death early may be the most humane act of care we offer our families—and ourselves

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When Numbers Lie

Why measurement is never neutral—and why AI forces us to rethink what we trust

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The Broken Windows of Our Moral Life

How small everyday choices shape cultures, organisations, and the societies we become

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Kavi Arasu

Leadership and Talent Development Professional

2025 in Review | Episode 4: Europe’s Year of Hard Choices

Europe entered 2025 already strained by war, fractured politics, and economic anxiety. As Philippe Le Corre explains, this was the year when three pressures collided—an unending war in Ukraine, a drastically altered transatlantic dynamic under Trump 2.0, and a more openly competitive China

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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

India’s Labour Codes: The Shift from Protecting Jobs to Formalising Work

The Codes rewrite the architecture of wages, flexibility, digital compliance, gig work and industrial relations. But the real transformation depends on how states implement them—and how leaders rebuild trust, dignity and fairness inside workplaces

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Vineet Kaul, Vivek Patwardhan & Satish Pradhan

Who Will Win the MAGA Crown?

Three competing visions inside the MAGA movement—over AI, immigration and national sovereignty—may determine America’s technological doctrine for the next decade

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Sundeep Waslekar

President | Strategic Foresight Group

2025 in Review | Episode 1: China and the Trumpian Reset

How does China see the Trumpian reset of the global order? What's really happening inside its domestic economy? And are we seeing signs of a thaw with India? A conversation with Chinese economist Prof. Yao Yang

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The Age of Individualism—and Its Unseen Costs

John Kay—one of the world’s leading thinkers on economics, corporate purpose, and capitalism—explores why individualism remains so deeply entrenched, even as it fuels inequality, populism, and institutional decay. Part 1 of a two-part conversation

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