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As AI agents embed intelligence into systems, the real shift is not automation—but how knowledge is owned, shared, and scaled across organisations
Arjo Basu & Debleena Majumdar
A conversation between Charles Assisi and Shrinath V on rebuilding Founding Fuel
Charles Assisi & Shrinath V
When producing things is mistaken for thinking: AI hasn’t created this habit—it has simply made it faster and harder to spot. Revealing the gap between output and judgement inside organisations
Kavi Arasu
Leadership and Talent Development Professional
Founding Fuel
As the conflict with the United States and Israel intensifies, Iran’s new leadership is signalling a prolonged confrontation—one that combines conventional warfare with pressure on global energy flows and supply chains.
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
Energy dependence, remittance flows and trade corridors reveal how deeply India’s economy is tied to stability in West Asia. Part II of a two-part series.
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
Energy chokepoints, proxy escalation and great-power recalibration are reshaping the Gulf and unsettling the global order. Part I of a two-part series.
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
Even if Trump’s tariffs disappear, the forces reshaping global trade—geopolitics, security concerns and reconfigured regional blocs—are here to stay
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
Strategy fails not from lack of information, but from outdated assumptions about what it implies
Debleena Majumdar & Arjo Basu
Disability inclusion, leadership imagination, and the limits of intent
Subhashis Sinha & Nikunj Kumar Jain
As major powers turn artificial intelligence towards science and national security, India must widen its AI vision beyond inclusion and productivity
Pankaj Saran
Convenor | NatStrat
Why the real risk in the return-to-office debate isn’t resistance, but the quiet erosion of judgement and capability
Kavi Arasu
Leadership and Talent Development Professional
Speed is not strategy. The real battle is over sovereignty, science and state capacity
Founding Fuel
What India’s agreements with the US and EU reveal about power, policy space, and calibrated accommodation
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
Why India’s AI moment will be decided less by models—and more by how intelligence is applied, governed, and trusted
Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
