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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, Strategic Foresight Group

The Best Stories of 2025
·Business & Strategy

The Best Stories of 2025

Ten of our best work through the year—on business, leadership, and geopolitical trends

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Founding Fuel

Founding Fuel

When Numbers Lie
·Economy, Policy & Society

When Numbers Lie

Why measurement is never neutral—and why AI forces us to rethink what we trust

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The Year the World Learned to Live Without America
·Economy, Policy & Society

The Year the World Learned to Live Without America

How Trump’s tariffs, Europe’s capitulation, China’s counter-moves and India’s narrowing room for manoeuvre reshaped the global order.

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Dinesh Narayanan

Dinesh Narayanan

Independent journalist, Author of The RSS and The Making of The Deep Nation

When A Leader Stumbles
·Leadership & Organisation

When A Leader Stumbles

How an airline’s crisis became an industry’s test. The concluding part of a two part special series

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Satish Pradhan

Satish Pradhan

Independent Consultant

The Paradox of Excellence
·Leadership & Organisation

The Paradox of Excellence

How IndiGo’s greatest strengths created the conditions for the December 2025 crisis — and what it reveals about the limits of high-performance systems. Part One of a two part special series

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Satish Pradhan

Satish Pradhan

Independent Consultant

The Best Business Books of 2025
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery

The Best Business Books of 2025

Ten essential reads on money, leadership, and navigating a changing world

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D Shivakumar

D Shivakumar

Operating Partner, Advent International

The New Perimeter of National Security
·Business & Strategy

The New Perimeter of National Security

Why India’s corporate leaders can no longer separate digital risk from strategic resilience

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G Venkat Raman

G Venkat Raman

Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Management, Indore

The Broken Windows of Our Moral Life
·Economy, Policy & Society

The Broken Windows of Our Moral Life

How small everyday choices shape cultures, organisations, and the societies we become

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Kavi Arasu

Kavi Arasu

Leadership and Talent Development Professional

2025 in Review | Episode 4: Europe’s Year of Hard Choices
·Economy, Policy & Society

2025 in Review | Episode 4: Europe’s Year of Hard Choices

Europe entered 2025 already strained by war, fractured politics, and economic anxiety. As Philippe Le Corre explains, this was the year when three pressures collided—an unending war in Ukraine, a drastically altered transatlantic dynamic under Trump 2.0, and a more openly competitive China

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India’s Labour Codes: The Shift from Protecting Jobs to Formalising Work
·Economy, Policy & Society

India’s Labour Codes: The Shift from Protecting Jobs to Formalising Work

The Codes rewrite the architecture of wages, flexibility, digital compliance, gig work and industrial relations. But the real transformation depends on how states implement them—and how leaders rebuild trust, dignity and fairness inside workplaces

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Vineet Kaul

Vineet Kaul

HR Advisor and Mentor

The One Leadership Skill We Forgot to Teach
·Leadership & Organisation

The One Leadership Skill We Forgot to Teach

In an age of noise, overload and drifting meetings, facilitation is no longer a “tool”, it’s a core leadership discipline

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Kavi Arasu

Kavi Arasu

Leadership and Talent Development Professional

2025 in Review | Episode 3: America’s Year of Disruption
·Economy, Policy & Society

2025 in Review | Episode 3: America’s Year of Disruption

Justin Logan of the Cato Institute on how Trump’s second term reshaped global trade, defense alignments, and America’s domestic equilibrium—and why the turbulence may be far from over

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