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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Founding Fuel

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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Founding Fuel

When Numbers Lie

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

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Founding Fuel

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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Founding Fuel

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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Founding Fuel

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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Founding Fuel

The Government Works—Just Not How You Think

The government is not as a machine to fix, but a living system to serve: a conversation with Subroto Bagchi, entrepreneur, author, and public servant

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Founding Fuel

US Shutdown Theater: Starring US Congress, Directed by US Constitution?

Britain and India survive budget battles. The US turns them into a national pastime

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Sachin Garg

Independent Public Policy Consultant

The $100K H-1B Shock & India’s Innovation Moment

The visa fee has sent shockwaves through the global talent ecosystem. What does this mean for U.S. startups, Indian engineers, and the future of innovation?

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Founding Fuel

The Quiet Drift Toward Precarity

What the rise of contract labour reveals about the health of India’s factories — and the future of India Inc.

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Vineet Kaul

HR Advisor and Mentor

Inside India’s Real-Money Gaming Ban: Design, Addiction, & the Business of Play

What India’s ban on real-money gaming reveals about design, addiction, and opinion

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Shrinath V

Founder, The Salient Advisory | Product & AI Strategy Advisor

12 Places That Helped Shape Post-Independence India

They tell the story of modern India’s evolution

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Founding Fuel

Part 2: How Experts Are Reconstructing the AI 171 Tragedy

Why the media frenzy around the air crash is starting to look like six blind men and the elephant. The second in a three part series

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Anmol Shrivastava & Indrajit Gupta

AI 171: The Investigation That Could Redefine Aviation Safety: Part 1

A modern Boeing Dreamliner fell from the sky seconds after takeoff—now, the race is on to uncover whether this was a tragic outlier or a signal that something deeper is broken. The first in a three part series

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Anmol Shrivastava & Indrajit Gupta

Who owns your data—you, the creator, or the platform?

The Kunal Kamra-BookMyShow face-off is more than a dust-up between a performer and a ticketing platform. It is a snapshot of a larger issue that will only become more pressing. And it impacts all of us

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N S Ramnath

Senior Editor | Founding Fuel

The Billion-User Bet

Nandan Nilekani’s key to unlock the Indian market opportunity and galvanise growth: reforms in the four key areas of technology, capital, entrepreneurship and formalization

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N S Ramnath

Senior Editor | Founding Fuel

The mental model every investor should learn (but most don't)

Why understanding market fluctuations is your best defense against costly mistakes

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Krishna Jha

Independent investor

We, the People of India

Stories of the making of our Constitution

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Vinita Gursahani Singh

Founder | We, The People Abhiyan

The global trends to watch in 2025

Insights from The Economist’s report ‘The World Ahead 2025’

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D Shivakumar

Operating Partner | Advent International

The existential dilemmas facing cultural festivals

Can a festival survive and thrive without corporate sponsorship? Yes — and here’s how Bangalore literature festival found freedom through community funding

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N S Ramnath

Senior Editor | Founding Fuel

What happens to our data after we die?

What part of our digital history is worth preserving? And who should have access and control over our social media accounts, passwords and other data?

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Charles Assisi

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

The new business theme: Love the product, hate the producer

Insights from economist John Kay’s new book ‘The Corporation in the 21st Century’

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D Shivakumar

Operating Partner | Advent International

Fire in the ’hood

With Bangladesh wobbly, India is now surrounded by unstable states with restive populations and fidgety militaries

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Dinesh Narayanan

Independent journalist | Author of The RSS and The Making of The Deep Nation

Not the government’s cheerleader

An extract from former RBI governor Dr D Subbarao’s book, ‘Just a Mercenary?’

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Founding Fuel

13 Most Memorable Moments: Lok Sabha Elections 2024

The key turning points that defined a truly tumultuous general election

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Founding Fuel

The paradox of liquidity

What stock market investors can learn from private equity investors

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Krishna Jha

Independent investor

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

NPAs: A problem that refuses to go away

An extract from Rajrishi Singhal’s book, 'Slip, Stitch and Stumble: The Untold Story of India's Financial Sector Reforms'

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Founding Fuel

Is India too late to the Global South party?

China may have already stolen a march with its massive financing, infra investments and deals to access natural resources and stranglehold on markets across the developing world. Yet India may still have some aces up its sleeve. The sixth and final column in our Year End Special series on making sense of the biggest economic and geopolitical shifts and what they signal

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Pramit Pal Chaudhuri

South Asia head | Eurasia Group

Is Africa swapping out Europe for China?

The political economy calculus in Africa is changing. Any China-EU rivalry in Africa will only benefit the continent. The fifth column in our Year End Special series on making sense of the biggest economic and geopolitical shifts and what they signal

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Vivek Y. Kelkar

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

Caught in existential dilemmas, how is Europe’s political thinking shaping up?

Europe is caught between the left and right, antisemitism and Islamophobia, accepting asylum seekers and pushing back boats. The time for a delicate balancing act may be over. This is the second column in our Year End Special series on making sense of the biggest economic and geopolitical shifts and what they signal

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Sir Graham Watson

Distinguished Visiting Fellow | University of Toronto - Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy

Masterclass: Making Sense of the Hamas-Israel War

What does the war mean for the world? A discussion with Sundeep Waslekar

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Founding Fuel

China's economic shift: Politics trumps growth

Despite the slowdown in its economy, Xi Jinping has not intervened with a stimulus package. The reason is a big shift in his policy, which is focused on building self-reliance. And this China Dream calls for patience and collective sacrifice by the Chinese nation

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G Venkat Raman

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

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

Fintech Special Report Part 4: A fine balance

Fintech must contend with inherent conflicts with what the regulators want. Fintech’s push for rapid scaling needs to balance with the regulators’ push for financial stability and consumer protection. Part 4 in this 4-part series

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N S Ramnath

Senior Editor | Founding Fuel

Modern Times redux

Is the government’s Make in India programme creating a system where a large section of workers in manufacturing could find themselves trapped in low wage jobs with no future?

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Indrajit Gupta

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel