Discover what's capturing attention across the Founding Fuel network this week.
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
Works at the intersection of people, systems, and organisational change
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Strategy fails not from lack of information, but from outdated assumptions about what it implies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
Entrepreneur & business leader | Author
Disability inclusion, leadership imagination, and the limits of intent
Subhashis Sinha
Professor of Practice, HR & Behavioural Sciences | School of Business Management, NMIMS Mumbai
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
Works at the intersection of people, systems, and organisational change
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
On prompting, intent, and the discipline of asking well
Debleena Majumdar
Entrepreneur & business leader | Author
Another 50 tech IPOs won’t build a middle class
Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
