·Artificial Intelligence
India’s AI Gambit: The Choices That Will Define Power
Speed is not strategy. The real battle is over sovereignty, science and state capacity
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·Economy, Policy & Society
India’s Trade Deals and the New Meaning of Strategic Autonomy
What India’s agreements with the US and EU reveal about power, policy space, and calibrated accommodation
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Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
·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
Investor | Entrepreneur
·Artificial Intelligence
Anatomy of a Prompt
On prompting, intent, and the discipline of asking well
DM
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Debleena Majumdar & Arjo Basu
·Economy, Policy & Society
Trendspotting 2026: India Cannot App Its Way to Prosperity
Another 50 tech IPOs won’t build a middle class
HC
Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
·Economy, Policy & Society
Between Jugaad and Destiny: India’s Missing Medium Term
Why a civilisation that thinks in eternity still struggles to plan in decades
AC
Ajay Chacko
Director | Keya Foods International
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
Relearning the Craft of Teaching
An eight-week teaching programme unsettles long-held assumptions about rigour, expertise, and what it truly means to help students learn
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Uma Narain
Former Founding Dean | School of Liberal Arts, NMIMS University
·Economy, Policy & Society
America’s Iran Trap Is Closing
Carrier strike groups, nuclear deadlines and a brittle regime in Tehran are converging on a moment where Washington may discover that every move—strike, sabotage or restraint—ends in escalation
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Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
·Leadership & Organisation
When AI Raises the Average, Who Protects the Breakthrough?
Artificial intelligence is superb at optimisation. But transformation still comes from the deviations leaders choose to back.
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Debleena Majumdar & Arjo Basu
·Business & Strategy
A Merger Is Not an Idea
Why the Omnicom - Interpublic deal reveals a deeper failure of imagination in advertising
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Shekar Swamy
MD & Group CEO | R K SWAMY Ltd
·Economy, Policy & Society
Trade Is the New Geopolitics—and India Must Learn to Play It
Why India’s future power will be shaped less by diplomacy and more by trade architecture
VK
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
·Business & Strategy
Inside Chennai’s Enduring Enterprises
A field report on family ownership, continuity, and the craft of building for the long term
UB
Upamanyu Bhattacharya
Professor of Retail | S P Jain Institute of Management & Research
·Leadership & Organisation
The Quiet Work of Branding
Five shifts shaping how organisations build clarity, continuity and trust in 2025
IG
Indranil Gupta
Founder Director | BrandNEW Associates
·Economy, Policy & Society
Iran at the Brink: Five Scenarios That Could Reshape the Region
Economic collapse, political revolt and great-power rivalry converge in Iran’s most dangerous moment in decades.
VK
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
·Technology & the Future
When We Stopped Taking Things Apart
How abstraction, AI, and frictionless systems may be reshaping confidence, cognition, and first-principles thinking
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Ajay Chacko
Director | Keya Foods International