·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
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
Independent journalist | Author of The RSS and The Making of The Deep Nation
·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
Independent Consultant
·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
Independent Consultant
·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
Operating Partner | Advent International
·Economy, Policy & Society
2025 in Review | Episode 5: India’s Strategic Tightrope in a Fragmenting World
Ambassador Shyam Saran on a post-American order, a slowing China, and how India must balance room for manoeuvre with hard-headed realism on Russia, the US and China.
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·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
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences | Indian Institute of Management, Indore
·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
Leadership and Talent Development Professional
·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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·Economy, Policy & Society
Toxic Greed: How a $12.5 Billion Crisis Exposed a Global Corporate Failure
When innovation icons turn into liability machines, it’s not chemistry that fails—it’s governance, incentives, and courage
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Devangshu Dutta
Founder | Third Eyesight
·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
HR Advisor and Mentor
·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
Leadership and Talent Development Professional
·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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·Economy, Policy & Society
Who Will Win the MAGA Crown?
Three competing visions inside the MAGA movement—over AI, immigration and national sovereignty—may determine America’s technological doctrine for the next decade
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Sundeep Waslekar
President | Strategic Foresight Group
·Economy, Policy & Society
2025 in Review | Episode 2: The Erosion of Global Norms & Accelerating AI
Sundeep Waslekar, president of Strategic Foresight Group, on a West in turmoil, an international order in free fall, and an AI race racing ahead of rules.
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