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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
·Happiness, Meaning & Purpose
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
FF
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
FF
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
·Arts & Culture
FF Life: A beginner's guide to graphic novels
Discovering the power of visual language
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Arts & Culture
FF Life: Ramzaan in the Bohri Mohalla
The Mohalla is a magnet for foodies during the holy month. Now as an ambitious redevelopment project slowly changes the landscape, the traditional food businesses are morphing too
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Health & Wellbeing
FF Life: The art of slowing down
An effective antidote to the cult of speed
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Happiness, Meaning & Purpose
FF Life: On poetry and risk-taking
Poetry that soothes the rollercoaster of an entrepreneur’s life
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Krishna Jha
Independent investor
·Travel & Journeys
FF Life: Guate Maya
Travelling slow through Guatemala, I experienced a culture hidden from the typical tourist
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Piya Bose
Founder | Girls On The Go & Cave of Plato
·Travel & Journeys
FF Life: One sip at a time
An initiation into limited-edition boutique wines
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Aayush Soni
Independent Journalist
·Health & Wellbeing
FF Life: The international school conundrum
A new, growing set of international schools in India offer the allure of a contemporary and modern educational experience and well-rounded development of your child. But are they really able to live up to that promise?
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Ambica Naithani
Educator at international schools
·Books, Music & Film
FF Life: Systems thinking — Seeing the whole
Five books to nurture your systems thinking skills
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Arts & Culture
FF Life: Teens are fascinating. This is what they like to watch
August 26, 2023: Five shows recommended by two teens that may offer a window into their world
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Nayantara Assisi
Third year Student | St Xavier's College
·Books, Music & Film
FF Life: 7 favourite books
In our daily newsletter FF Insights, we cull a book extract that we believe will add value to our subscribers’ day. Here are our favourite books from that long list
FF
Founding Fuel
·Happiness, Meaning & Purpose
FF Life: Engaging with philosophy
Philosophy as an intimate, lived practice rather than a remote academic field
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Books, Music & Film
FF Life: Oppenheimer & the scientific phenomena of the Nuclear Age
The biopic Oppenheimer, on ‘the father of the atomic bomb’, just released in India. Here’s a curated list of books and movies that explore the people behind the Nuclear Age and the conflicts that shaped it
FF
Founding Fuel
·Travel & Journeys
The best of FF Life so far in 2023
17 June 2023: Work and life are not separate, discrete compartments
FF
Founding Fuel
·Arts & Culture
FF Life: A parikrama… of history, architecture, culture, and spirituality
1 April 2023: India’s temples are more than just about religion
FF
Founding Fuel
·Books, Music & Film
FF Life: The Oscar Rosters 2023
4 March 2023: This year has been a fantastic year for movies. Predictions for which films, directors, actors will take the awards
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Ronaan Roy
Former Deputy General Manager | Mahindra
·Personal Reinvention
Educated, aspiring, but struggling for opportunities
FF Life: The story of four women who are among the many who fall into the gap between ‘Ladki Padhao’ (educate girls) and ‘Naukri Karvao’ (allow them to work)
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Piyul Mukherjee
Co-Founder | Quipper Research Private Limited
·Books, Music & Film
FF Life: 8 Stories of Financial Fraud & Hubris that You Must Know About
February 4, 2023: History provides many examples of how the mix of business, politics, markets and finance can end up serving up a deadly cocktail
FF
Founding Fuel
·Happiness, Meaning & Purpose
FF Life: Hakuna Ma'vodka!
December 17, 2022: To cocktails! A time to unwind
FF
Founding Fuel
·investing
FF Life: Investing lessons from evolutionary biology
Rate hikes, inflation, market movements… Here’s what investors can learn from evolutionary biology on what matters. (Plus book recommendations: Like psychology, an understanding of evolutionary biology can help us become better investors)
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Krishna Jha
Independent investor
·Travel & Journeys
FF Life: Nature’s greatest spectacle
Friends, family, and the wildebeest migration in Kenya
FF
Founding Fuel
·Arts & Culture
FF Insights #706: Chennai’s chess pioneers
August 1, 2022: The first step; Be sceptical; E-com anxieties
FF
Founding Fuel
·Happiness, Meaning & Purpose
FF Insights #705: Wisdom
July 29, 2022: The last man standing; The evolution of time; Define familiar instruments
FF
Founding Fuel
·Travel & Journeys
FF Life: Food for the soul
November 12, 2022: Italy, a land of gastronomical, architectural, and artistic delight
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Aayush Soni
Independent Journalist
·Happiness, Meaning & Purpose
FF Life: Finding a purpose in a pandemic of sadness
November 5, 2022: Timeless wisdom from enduring works of literature, philosophy, and spiritual texts
FF
Founding Fuel
·Health & Wellbeing
FF Life: Notes from a rookie doodler—five lessons
Doodling sharpens your visual thinking and communication skills. But the process is teaching me more than sketching
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Health & Wellbeing
FF Life: What I’ve learnt from training to be a triathlete
September 10, 2022: Notes on being intuitive, being consistent, and unlearning to learn
FF
Founding Fuel
·Personal Reinvention
FF Life: 10 interviews that define India
September 4, 2022: Great conversations that weave together a fuller picture of the times we live in, in its multiple dimensions—politics, economy, business, sports, music, and the spiritual mind
FF
Founding Fuel
·Travel & Journeys
FF Life: Have you heard of Tranquebar?
August 20, 2022: A laidback, do-nothing, soul-recharging holiday in tranquil Tranquebar
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Piyul Mukherjee
Co-Founder | Quipper Research Private Limited
·Arts & Culture
FF Life: Five ways to indulge in the spirit of chess
August 6, 2022: There is more to chess than following the game
NR
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
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The Future of Work and Agentic AI Series
Much of the conversation around AI focuses on tools and productivity. This series looks deeper: at how AI is reshaping organisational architecture—how decisions are made, how knowledge flows, and how work itself is organised.
5 articles28
War in the Middle East: Global Faultlines
Stories that place the Middle East’s conflicts in a wider global, historical and cultural context.
7 articles55
Journeys, Not Itineraries
Reflective travelogues on attention, place, and inner change.
8 articles112
Thinking Through India’s AI Moment
Essays and conversations on AI, institutions, and scale in India.
7 articles52
Leadership When Judgment Matters
A curated selection on leadership under uncertainty.
7 articles75
Best of FF Life 2025
Personal essays on work, learning, and the inner life.
11 articles161