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The US-Iran talks in Switzerland may have reduced the immediate risk of war. But they did little to alter the Middle East's underlying balance of power. Iran remains central to the region's strategic calculations, Israel's concerns remain unresolved, and American leverage appears more limited than many assumed.
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
Why India’s next manufacturing push may require trusting entrepreneurs more than planners
Ajay Chacko
Director | Keya Foods International
From rail corridors and energy markets to missile inventories and military alliances, the world's major crises are becoming increasingly interconnected
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
India doesn’t need another reform agenda. It needs an economy that makes building, hiring, and growing easier.
Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
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.
Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
As the UAE exits OPEC, long-simmering economic and strategic divergences with Saudi Arabia begin to reshape Gulf politics and energy markets
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
From the Gulf to global markets, events appear to move toward rupture and then stop short. The reason lies not in restraint, but in the invisible architecture of the system itself.
Debajit Ghosh
Author
G Venkat Raman
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences | Indian Institute of Management, Indore
On how India built its education system faster than it built the economy to absorb it
Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
Why India’s systems keep interrupting its own momentum
Ajay Chacko
Director | Keya Foods International
One month in, the limits of conventional military power are being laid bare. As a “dual chokehold” on global energy flows emerges, the old security umbrella of the Gulf states is being dismantled. It is forcing a permanent re-pricing of both regional and global risk.
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
Why the Gulf crisis may be India’s moment for the next phase of reform
Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
As the conflict with the United States and Israel intensifies, Iran’s new leadership is signalling a prolonged confrontation—one that combines conventional warfare with pressure on global energy flows and supply chains.
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
Energy dependence, remittance flows and trade corridors reveal how deeply India’s economy is tied to stability in West Asia. Part II of a two-part series.
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
Energy chokepoints, proxy escalation and great-power recalibration are reshaping the Gulf and unsettling the global order. Part I of a two-part series.
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
Even if Trump’s tariffs disappear, the forces reshaping global trade—geopolitics, security concerns and reconfigured regional blocs—are here to stay
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
What India’s agreements with the US and EU reveal about power, policy space, and calibrated accommodation
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
Why India’s AI moment will be decided less by models—and more by how intelligence is applied, governed, and trusted
Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
Another 50 tech IPOs won’t build a middle class
Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
Why a civilisation that thinks in eternity still struggles to plan in decades
Ajay Chacko
Director | Keya Foods International
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
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
Why India’s future power will be shaped less by diplomacy and more by trade architecture
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
Economic collapse, political revolt and great-power rivalry converge in Iran’s most dangerous moment in decades.
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
What the Chola trail reveals about power, systems, memory, and coffee
Vijay Bhat
Founder-Director | Roots & Wings Consulting Services
From sacred groves to the Western Ghats, Gadgil’s work rebuilt the bridge between science and lived experience.
Founding Fuel
What prolonged global conflicts mean for Europe, China—and India’s narrowing strategic space.
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
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.
Shravan Bhat
Journalist | Power Finance & Risk
Why talking about death early may be the most humane act of care we offer our families—and ourselves
Founding Fuel
Why measurement is never neutral—and why AI forces us to rethink what we trust
Founding Fuel
How Trump’s tariffs, Europe’s capitulation, China’s counter-moves and India’s narrowing room for manoeuvre reshaped the global order.
Dinesh Narayanan
Independent journalist | Author of The RSS and The Making of The Deep Nation
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.
Founding Fuel
How small everyday choices shape cultures, organisations, and the societies we become
Kavi Arasu
Leadership and Talent Development Professional
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
Founding Fuel
When innovation icons turn into liability machines, it’s not chemistry that fails—it’s governance, incentives, and courage
Devangshu Dutta
Founder | Third Eyesight
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
Vineet Kaul, Vivek Patwardhan & Satish Pradhan
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
Founding Fuel
Three competing visions inside the MAGA movement—over AI, immigration and national sovereignty—may determine America’s technological doctrine for the next decade
Sundeep Waslekar
President | Strategic Foresight Group
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.
Founding Fuel
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
Founding Fuel
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
Founding Fuel
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
Founding Fuel
Tariffs were designed for a world of steel and sugar. They’re hopelessly out of sync with the quantum-entangled world of semiconductors
Shishir Prasad
Senior Business Journalist
Britain and India survive budget battles. The US turns them into a national pastime
Sachin Garg
Independent Public Policy Consultant
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?
Founding Fuel
Israel’s strike on Qatar has triggered a dangerous new phase in the Middle East — exposing Washington’s conflicting roles as ally and broker
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
What the rise of contract labour reveals about the health of India’s factories — and the future of India Inc.
Vineet Kaul
HR Advisor and Mentor
What India’s ban on real-money gaming reveals about design, addiction, and opinion
Shrinath V
Founder, The Salient Advisory | Product & AI Strategy Advisor
They tell the story of modern India’s evolution
Founding Fuel
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
Anmol Shrivastava & Indrajit Gupta
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
Anmol Shrivastava & Indrajit Gupta
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