When Thinking Starts Making Noise
As speech-to-text tools become eerily good, they are changing not just how we write, but how we think, remember, and inhabit private space
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
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The Drift Towards Busyness
A management consultant reflects on how modern corporate life slowly rewards motion without intentionality—and why protecting space for life beyond work has become a conscious discipline.
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Nikhil Sethi
Advisor on strategy and transformation
The “Chill Maadi” Family that Made It Across the World’s Highest Hikeable Pass
A Bengaluru family with no mountaineering background spent eight months preparing for the Annapurna Circuit—and discovered that ordinary people may be capable of far more than they imagine.
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Sanjay Swamy
Co-Founder and Managing Partner | Prime
Forks in the Road
What happens when progress stops asking for permission?
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Kavi Arasu
Leadership and Talent Development Professional
The Journey We’ve Already Paid For
We spend a lifetime storing money, only to realise we were really storing time
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Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
Raghu Rai, Who Taught Us How to See India
A tribute to the veteran photojournalist whose work revealed the country’s beauty, contradictions, and defining moments
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
A Country That Reads in Pictures
In Japan, manga isn’t an industry—it’s culture at scale. A journey through the habits that made it so
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Ronaan Roy
Former Deputy General Manager | Mahindra
Leadership Is Inner Work
What if the real crisis in leadership is not strategic—but moral? It’s a question Prof Raj Sisodia explores in this Meet the Author conversation
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Vanashree Ghate
Founder-Director | HEAL Foundation
Where the Land Is Home
What happens when a centuries-old knowledge system—held in practice, not institutions—meets a world changing faster than it can adapt? The Changpas of Changthang are living that question.
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Tara Sharma
Founder | Jungwa Foundation
Attraversiamo: Crossing Over in Italy
A journey through Pompeii, Tuscany, Florence and Rome becomes a meditation on art, memory, and the fragile permanence of human endeavour
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Uma Narain
Former Founding Dean | School of Liberal Arts, NMIMS University
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