Noticing: The Forgotten Skill of a Modern Life
The future changes when someone pauses long enough to ask a simple question: Why?
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Kavi Arasu
Works at the intersection of people, systems, and organisational change
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My 10 Best Business Books of Summer 2026
The best books of the year so far—on disagreeing constructively, culture, strategic subtraction, genius, China's advantage, an India you think you know, creativity, establishment paralysis, imposter syndrome, and reimagining your career
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
The 20-Watt Brain vs. The Megawatt LLM: Why AI's Information Avalanche Is Failing Human Decision-Making
We make thousands of decisions every day using remarkably little conscious thought. In a conversation around his new book ‘Micro Stimuli’, Biju Dominic explains what that means for AI, communication, and the way we persuade ourselves and others.
CA
Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
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
CA
Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
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.
NS
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?
KA
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
HC
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
NR
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
RR
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
VG
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.
TS
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
UN
Uma Narain
Former Founding Dean | School of Liberal Arts, NMIMS University
A War India Didn’t Choose—and a Market It Can’t Escape
From Hormuz to Dalal Street, a distant conflict is quietly reshaping risk for Indian investors—and exposing the limits of “India-only” portfolios
AD
Anindya Dutta
Founder | Two Roads and author
Oscar 2026: A Study in Extremes
Chaos, craft and the return of the auteur
RR
Ronaan Roy
Former Deputy General Manager | Mahindra
Oscar Predictions 2026: Who Will Win—and Why
My annual curtain-raiser: the likely winners, the dark horses, and the one film you should actually watch.
RR
Ronaan Roy
Former Deputy General Manager | Mahindra
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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
FF
Founding Fuel
·investing
Your Life Is Already Long India. Your Portfolio Shouldn’t Be
Why global diversification is less about chasing returns and more about protecting your financial future from a single-country risk
AR
Abhishek Raghunath
Head of Content | Neil Patel Digital India
·Happiness, Meaning & Purpose
The Happiness We Keep Postponing
A reflection on joy, and why the ordinary day may be enough
HC
Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
·Personal Reinvention
Embracing Life’s Second Arc
When success no longer answers “What now?”
FF
Founding Fuel
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