
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

Vanashree Ghate
Founder-Director | HEAL Foundation
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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

Vanashree Ghate
Founder-Director | HEAL Foundation

Books, films and cultural works that help us see the Middle East beyond the noise of geopolitics

Founding Fuel

A reflection on joy, and why the ordinary day may be enough

Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur

When success no longer answers “What now?”

Founding Fuel

What the return of the Piprahwa relics asks of us—about restraint, remembrance, and how we practice attention today

Jay Vikram Bakshi
Board Adviser and Entrepreneurial Mentor

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

Piya Bose
Founder | Girls On The Go & Cave of Plato

11 stories that asked us to slow down, look closer, and feel more deeply

Founding Fuel

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

Sveta Basraon
Editor and Head of Operations | Founding Fuel

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

N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel

How men learn—and unlearn—the language of emotion

Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

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

Kavi Arasu
Leadership and Talent Development Professional

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

Founding Fuel

They don’t work for Google. But they’re the brotherhood you’ll want when the road disappears

Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

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

D.N. ‘Bonny’ Mukerjea
Former CEO, Digital Business | RPSG Group

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

Ambica Naithani
Educator at international schools

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

Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

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

Founding Fuel

It’s a window to learning, making connections, and a form of personal riches

Krishna Jha
Independent investor

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

Ronaan Roy
Former Deputy General Manager | Mahindra

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

Upamanyu Bhattacharya
Professor of Retail | S P Jain Institute of Management & Research

Discovering the power of visual language

N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel

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

Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

An effective antidote to the cult of speed

N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel

Poetry that soothes the rollercoaster of an entrepreneur’s life

Krishna Jha
Independent investor

Travelling slow through Guatemala, I experienced a culture hidden from the typical tourist

Piya Bose
Founder | Girls On The Go & Cave of Plato

An initiation into limited-edition boutique wines

Aayush Soni
Independent Journalist

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?

Ambica Naithani
Educator at international schools

Five books to nurture your systems thinking skills

N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel

August 26, 2023: Five shows recommended by two teens that may offer a window into their world

Nayantara Assisi
Third year Student | St Xavier's College

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

Founding Fuel

Philosophy as an intimate, lived practice rather than a remote academic field

N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel

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

Founding Fuel

17 June 2023: Work and life are not separate, discrete compartments

Founding Fuel

1 April 2023: India’s temples are more than just about religion

Founding Fuel

4 March 2023: This year has been a fantastic year for movies. Predictions for which films, directors, actors will take the awards

Ronaan Roy
Former Deputy General Manager | Mahindra

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)

Piyul Mukherjee
Co-Founder | Quipper Research Private Limited

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

Founding Fuel

December 17, 2022: To cocktails! A time to unwind

Founding Fuel

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)

Krishna Jha
Independent investor

Friends, family, and the wildebeest migration in Kenya

Founding Fuel

August 1, 2022: The first step; Be sceptical; E-com anxieties

Founding Fuel

July 29, 2022: The last man standing; The evolution of time; Define familiar instruments

Founding Fuel

November 12, 2022: Italy, a land of gastronomical, architectural, and artistic delight

Aayush Soni
Independent Journalist

November 5, 2022: Timeless wisdom from enduring works of literature, philosophy, and spiritual texts

Founding Fuel

Doodling sharpens your visual thinking and communication skills. But the process is teaching me more than sketching

N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel

September 10, 2022: Notes on being intuitive, being consistent, and unlearning to learn

Founding Fuel

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

Founding Fuel

August 20, 2022: A laidback, do-nothing, soul-recharging holiday in tranquil Tranquebar

Piyul Mukherjee
Co-Founder | Quipper Research Private Limited

August 6, 2022: There is more to chess than following the game

N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel

Exploring a modern side of Prague, a city steeped in history

Malini Bhupta
Senior Journalist
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