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Thinking Through India’s AI Moment

Essays and conversations on AI, institutions, and scale in India.

7 Articles
52 min read
Updated 15/3/2026

Editor's Note

Artificial intelligence is often discussed as a technological race or an investment cycle. In India, it is also something more complex: a test of institutions, state capacity, education systems, and the ability to adapt at scale without losing judgment.

This Collection brings together Founding Fuel’s most considered work on AI in the Indian context—across policy, classrooms, organisations, and public discourse. Rather than chasing novelty, these pieces focus on interpretation: what AI reveals about how India learns, governs, and decides.

Read together, they reflect an ongoing attempt to think clearly about a technology whose consequences are unfolding faster than our categories for understanding it.

(This Collection reflects our editorial judgment at a point in time. We revisit and refine it as our thinking evolves.)

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India Is Asking the Wrong Question About AI
·Economy, Policy & Society

India Is Asking the Wrong Question About AI

Why India’s AI moment will be decided less by models—and more by how intelligence is applied, governed, and trusted

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Haresh Chawla

Haresh Chawla

Investor

Revolution Inside AI
·Artificial Intelligence

Revolution Inside AI

As the world fixates on large language models, a quieter shift toward world models, scientific AI and safety is reshaping global power

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Sundeep Waslekar

Sundeep Waslekar

President

The Love of One’s Tongue in the Age of AI
·Artificial Intelligence

The Love of One’s Tongue in the Age of AI

AI can speak in dozens of tongues — but often thinks in just one. Why India must lead in building systems fluent in its own realities

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Kavi Arasu

Kavi Arasu

Leadership and Talent Development Professional

India’s AI Gambit
·Artificial Intelligence

India’s AI Gambit

What will it take for India to lead, not just react, in the age of AI? An exclusive Founding Fuel - NatStrat Live session

From Bazaar to Breakthrough
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

From Bazaar to Breakthrough

The next phase of global innovation may emerge not from invention, but from how India adapts and stretches existing tools.

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Shrinath V

Shrinath V

Founder, The Salient Advisory

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