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
Economy Policy And Society
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·Global Trade and Geoeconomics
India’s Trade Deals and the New Meaning of Strategic Autonomy
What India’s agreements with the US and EU reveal about power, policy space, and calibrated accommodation
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Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
·Development & State Capacity
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
HC
Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
·Development & State Capacity
Trendspotting 2026: India Cannot App Its Way to Prosperity
Another 50 tech IPOs won’t build a middle class
HC
Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
·Development & State Capacity
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
·Global Trade and Geoeconomics
Trade Is the New Geopolitics—and India Must Learn to Play It
Why India’s future power will be shaped less by diplomacy and more by trade architecture
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Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
·Development & State Capacity
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
·Climate & Environmental Sustainability
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.
FF
Founding Fuel
·Strategic Affairs & Geopolitics
A World Without Endgames
What prolonged global conflicts mean for Europe, China—and India’s narrowing strategic space.
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Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
·Development & State Capacity
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
·Development & State Capacity
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
FF
Founding Fuel
·Development & State Capacity
When Numbers Lie
Why measurement is never neutral—and why AI forces us to rethink what we trust
FF
Founding Fuel
·Strategic Affairs & Geopolitics
The Year the World Learned to Live Without America
How Trump’s tariffs, Europe’s capitulation, China’s counter-moves and India’s narrowing room for manoeuvre reshaped the global order.
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Dinesh Narayanan
Independent journalist | Author of The RSS and The Making of The Deep Nation
·Strategic Affairs & Geopolitics
2025 in Review | Episode 5: India’s Strategic Tightrope in a Fragmenting World
Ambassador Shyam Saran on a post-American order, a slowing China, and how India must balance room for manoeuvre with hard-headed realism on Russia, the US and China.
FF
Founding Fuel
·Development & State Capacity
The Broken Windows of Our Moral Life
How small everyday choices shape cultures, organisations, and the societies we become
KA
Kavi Arasu
Leadership and Talent Development Professional
·Regulation & Institutions
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
·Development & State Capacity
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
VK
VP
SP
Vineet Kaul, Vivek Patwardhan & Satish Pradhan
·Strategic Affairs & Geopolitics
2025 in Review | Episode 3: America’s Year of Disruption
Justin Logan of the Cato Institute on how Trump’s second term reshaped global trade, defense alignments, and America’s domestic equilibrium—and why the turbulence may be far from over
FF
Founding Fuel
·Strategic Affairs & Geopolitics
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
SW
Sundeep Waslekar
President | Strategic Foresight Group
·Strategic Affairs & Geopolitics
2025 in Review | Episode 2: The Erosion of Global Norms & Accelerating AI
Sundeep Waslekar, president of Strategic Foresight Group, on a West in turmoil, an international order in free fall, and an AI race racing ahead of rules.
FF
Founding Fuel
·Development & State Capacity
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
FF
Founding Fuel
·Development & State Capacity
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
FF
Founding Fuel
·Development & State Capacity
US Shutdown Theater: Starring US Congress, Directed by US Constitution?
Britain and India survive budget battles. The US turns them into a national pastime
SG
Sachin Garg
Independent Public Policy Consultant
·Strategic Affairs & Geopolitics
From Gaza to Doha:How Israel’s Strike on Qatar Shook the Middle East
Israel’s strike on Qatar has triggered a dangerous new phase in the Middle East — exposing Washington’s conflicting roles as ally and broker
VK
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
·Regulation & Institutions
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.
VK
Vineet Kaul
HR Advisor and Mentor
·Regulation & Institutions
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
·Development & State Capacity
12 Places That Helped Shape Post-Independence India
They tell the story of modern India’s evolution
FF
Founding Fuel
·Regulation & Institutions
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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IG
Anmol Shrivastava & Indrajit Gupta
·Regulation & Institutions
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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IG
Anmol Shrivastava & Indrajit Gupta
·Regulation & Institutions
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
NR
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Development & State Capacity
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
NR
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Development & State Capacity
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
·Strategic Affairs & Geopolitics
Trump’s hardball tactics to extract minerals & peace in Ukraine
Ukraine’s critical minerals deal with the US hangs on the edge of a precipice. Will it be a harbinger of peace with Russia? Or a deal too complex for even Trump to swing?
VK
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
·Strategic Affairs & Geopolitics
Briefing #4 | The view from New Delhi: Choices and dilemmas
The defining challenges for India as it tries to balance demands from the US administration, and its own Asian backyard, which is increasingly coming under the dragon’s shadow
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Dinesh Narayanan
Independent journalist | Author of The RSS and The Making of The Deep Nation
·Development & State Capacity
We, the People of India
Stories of the making of our Constitution
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Vinita Gursahani Singh
Founder | We, The People Abhiyan
·Strategic Affairs & Geopolitics
Briefing #3 | The US-China tech rivalry: More than tech
Six industries to watch as the complicated relationship between the two countries in geopolitics extends to technology too
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Strategic Affairs & Geopolitics
Briefing #2: The risks from war still raise the spectre of uncertainty
The ghosts of the past will continue to haunt long into the future
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Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
·Strategic Affairs & Geopolitics
The Global Politics of AI
The big powers are escalating the AI race, but some scientists fear that the technology will spin out of human control
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Sundeep Waslekar
President | Strategic Foresight Group
·Development & State Capacity
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
·Regulation & Institutions
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
·Development & State Capacity
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
·Strategic Affairs & Geopolitics
Masterclass: Geopolitics and Global Trade - How It Impacts India
What are the implications of the US-China rivalry for companies, global trade and India in particular? The Masterclass is a culmination of a weeklong curated learning experience
FF
Founding Fuel
·Regulation & Institutions
Not the government’s cheerleader
An extract from former RBI governor Dr D Subbarao’s book, ‘Just a Mercenary?’
FF
Founding Fuel
·Development & State Capacity
13 Most Memorable Moments: Lok Sabha Elections 2024
The key turning points that defined a truly tumultuous general election
FF
Founding Fuel
·Development & State Capacity
The paradox of liquidity
What stock market investors can learn from private equity investors
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Krishna Jha
Independent investor
·Development & State Capacity
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
·Regulation & Institutions
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'
FF
Founding Fuel
·Strategic Affairs & Geopolitics
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
·Development & State Capacity
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
·Regulation & Institutions
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
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