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No, there is nothing called Angel Tax
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

No, there is nothing called Angel Tax

India needs more startups and entrepreneurs. Antiquated sections of the Income Tax Act must be reworked

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Haresh Chawla

Haresh Chawla

Investor | Entrepreneur

Why the worst may not be over for Chanda Kochhar
·Leadership & Organisation

Why the worst may not be over for Chanda Kochhar

The inside story of how Chanda Kochhar let hubris and greed implode her trail-blazing career at ICICI Bank

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Indrajit Gupta

Indrajit Gupta

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

Work smart, create white spaces
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery

Work smart, create white spaces

This Week: Busyness, investing time wisely, deep work, the world in 2019, and more

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Founding Fuel

Founding Fuel

The real world vs the idea of One Big Story
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery

The real world vs the idea of One Big Story

This Week: juggling contradictory principles, UDAN scheme, learnings from Michael Phelps, Airbnb vs hotel industry, the inevitability of Roger Federer and more

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Founding Fuel

Founding Fuel

The world as seen by Michael Phelps
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery

The world as seen by Michael Phelps

Listening to the greatest Olympian ever offers life lessons that can be extrapolated into multiple domains

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Charles Assisi

Charles Assisi

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

Why UDAN is flying into headwinds
·Economy, Policy & Society

Why UDAN is flying into headwinds

The Modi government’s ambitious scheme was a serious attempt to make air travel accessible to every Indian. But two years later, it is apparent that the challenges may have been somewhat underestimated.

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Indrajit Gupta

Indrajit Gupta

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

India’s Model T moment
·Economy, Policy & Society

India’s Model T moment

This Week: An informed debate on policy and Aadhaar, China goes to the dark side of the moon, what motivates gig workers, and how automation is remaking service work

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Founding Fuel

Founding Fuel

‘Exclusion does not come from Aadhaar, but from its uses’
·Economy, Policy & Society

‘Exclusion does not come from Aadhaar, but from its uses’

There are multiple India’s—with different levels of prosperity and access to services. And India lives simultaneously in multiple centuries. Ram Sewak Sharma, TN Ninan, Parth Shah and Shakti Sinha discuss how Aadhaar and the policy around it needs to evolve to bridge these differences

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Founding Fuel

Founding Fuel

Where may the True North lie?
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery

Where may the True North lie?

Time to reflect: Anne Lamott's 12 truths, David Foster Wallace on adjusting your natural default-setting, questioning scale, and the most important questions

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Founding Fuel

Founding Fuel

A step forward for e-KYC and digital payments
·Economy, Policy & Society

A step forward for e-KYC and digital payments

Aadhaar review petitions, e-KYC and financial inclusion, DigiLocker, how philosophy helps navigate the world, organisational culture, and more

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Founding Fuel

Founding Fuel

The Beatles, and mastery through deliberate practice
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery

The Beatles, and mastery through deliberate practice

This Week: Deliberate practice, the clash between capitalism and democracy, inside the mind of a digital native, the personal data ecosystem, and more

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Founding Fuel

Founding Fuel

Capitalism vs democracy: Consumers vs citizens
·Economy, Policy & Society

Capitalism vs democracy: Consumers vs citizens

Beneath the economic and political rumbles around the world lies a deeper conflict between these sets of ideas

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Arun Maira

Arun Maira

Former Chairman, BCG India | Member, Planning Commission

Top 10 Business Books of 2018
·Leadership & Organisation

Top 10 Business Books of 2018

Books about the evolution of India's billionaires, understanding data, shared values, the economy, organisational culture, the risks and rewards of technology, and the rise of strongmen

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D Shivakumar

D Shivakumar

Operating Partner | Advent International