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
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Beyond the Headlines: The Human Complexity of the Middle East
Books, films and cultural works that help us see the Middle East beyond the noise of geopolitics
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Founding Fuel
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The Happiness We Keep Postponing
A reflection on joy, and why the ordinary day may be enough
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Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
·Personal Reinvention
Embracing Life’s Second Arc
When success no longer answers “What now?”
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Founding Fuel
·Arts & Culture
The Light and the Lotus
What the return of the Piprahwa relics asks of us—about restraint, remembrance, and how we practice attention today
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Jay Vikram Bakshi
Board Adviser and Entrepreneurial Mentor
·Travel & Journeys
A Journey Back to Myself
Armed with a diary and pen, I set out on a solo two-and-a-half-month ‘journalling adventure’ through Malaysia and Indonesia. Every little self-musing helped me remember my old self and awaken a new one
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Piya Bose
Founder | Girls On The Go & Cave of Plato
·Travel & Journeys
The Best of FF Life 2025
11 stories that asked us to slow down, look closer, and feel more deeply
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Founding Fuel
·Health & Wellbeing
Who Gets to Decide What Happens at the End of Your Life?
Living wills remain on the fringes, but they are forcing India to confront family power, cultural taboo, and the realities of end-of-life care—signalling a profound shift in how the country thinks about dignity and medical decision-making
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Sveta Basraon
Editor and Head of Operations | Founding Fuel
·Nature & Wilderness
On the Edge: Urgent Stories Our Wild Places Tell—A Tribute to Ramki
In memory of a friend, mentor, and conservationist, we present the 2025 Ramki Sreenivasan Conservation Photography Award—images that reveal the startling, intimate, and often uncomfortable ways in which human lives now intersect with the wild
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Health & Wellbeing
What Quiet Men Teach Us About Love
How men learn—and unlearn—the language of emotion
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Travel & Journeys
Where the Warm North Meets the Cool South
At a quiet Australian headland, I discovered that the most meaningful journeys aren’t about how far we go—but how still we learn to be
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Kavi Arasu
Leadership and Talent Development Professional
·Arts & Culture
How to make cultural festivals independent, inclusive, and sustainable
Cultural festivals succeed when they put community before commerce and independence before sponsorship—while continuously experimenting to stay relevant and inclusive. Insights from the builders of the Bangalore Lit Fest and Mumbai’s MAMI film festival
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Founding Fuel
·Travel & Journeys
Where GPS Fails, the Brotherhood Begins
They don’t work for Google. But they’re the brotherhood you’ll want when the road disappears
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Travel & Journeys
In the Footsteps of the Good Fight
A group of childhood friends retrace the bloodied battlegrounds of WWII Europe—from Normandy to Berlin—finding meaning, memory, and a warning for the present
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D.N. ‘Bonny’ Mukerjea
Former CEO, Digital Business | RPSG Group
·Health & Wellbeing
Parenting’s attention problem
Parenting has become hugely isolating and stressful, especially in urban India. Busy parents struggle to keep up with the demands of parenting, and often rely entirely on nannies. But it's still important they be present in their child's life, writes a teacher and a mom
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Ambica Naithani
Educator at international schools
·Arts & Culture
FF Life: Beyond the Gate of Conquest
Ramzaan at the Saifee Masjid Complex, in South Mumbai's Bhendi Bazaar: In the heart of chaos, an ode to modernity that embraces the Dawoodi Bohra community's heritage and aspirations
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Arts & Culture
The best of FF Life in 2024
Nine stories that took us close to Frida Kahlo’s art; inside the best Durga Puja pandals; the most memorable moments from the Lok Sabha elections; into the world of graphic novels; a trek to Sandakphu near Darjeeling; and Ramzaan in South Mumbai’s Bhendi Bazaar
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Founding Fuel
·Personal Reinvention
FF Life: The rewards of writing
It’s a window to learning, making connections, and a form of personal riches
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Krishna Jha
Independent investor
·Arts & Culture
Art under the eye of the Mother Goddess
10 best Durga Puja pandals of Kolkata 2024 | Art in the shadow of trauma: Durga Puja art is, more often than not, the art of social cause. Many of the pandals this year were muted, yet displayed a burst of breathtaking creativity
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Ronaan Roy
Former Deputy General Manager | Mahindra
·Travel & Journeys
The Japanese way of life and business
Inside Kamata, Hiyoshiya, 7Eleven: In the land of the rising sun, there are many tell-tale signs of the unique culture across businesses, both big and small. Here’s what I discovered
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Upamanyu Bhattacharya
Professor of Retail | S P Jain Institute of Management & Research
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