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N S Ramnath

N S Ramnath

Senior Editor at Founding Fuel

NS Ramnath is a member of the founding team & Lead - Newsroom Innovation at Founding Fuel, and co-author of the book, The Aadhaar Effect. His main interests lie in technology, business, society, and how they interact and influence each other. He writes a regular column on disruptive technologies, and takes regular stock of key news and perspectives from across the world.

Ram, as everybody calls him, experiments with newer story-telling formats, tailored for the smartphone and social media as well, the outcomes of which he shares with everybody on the team. It then becomes part of a knowledge repository at Founding Fuel and is continuously used to implement and experiment with content formats across all platforms.

He is also involved with data analysis and visualisation at a startup, How India Lives.

Prior to Founding Fuel, Ramnath was with Forbes India and Economic Times as a business journalist. He has also written for The Hindu, Quartz and Scroll. He has degrees in economics and financial management from Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning.

He tweets at @rmnth and spends his spare time reading on philosophy.

My Work

On the Edge: Urgent Stories Our Wild Places Tell—A Tribute to Ramki
·FF Life

On the Edge: Urgent Stories Our Wild Places Tell—A Tribute to Ramki

In memory of a friend, mentor, and conservationist, we present the 2025 Ramki Sreenivasan Conservation Photography Award—images that reveal the startling, intimate, and often uncomfortable ways in which human lives now intersect with the wild

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N S Ramnath

N S Ramnath

Senior Editor, Founding Fuel

Zoho’s New CEO, Same Grounded Playbook
·Leadership & Organisation

Zoho’s New CEO, Same Grounded Playbook

As Sridhar Vembu steps back to focus on AI, Shailesh Davey takes the lead, steering Zoho into the future, on its own terms

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N S Ramnath

N S Ramnath

Senior Editor, Founding Fuel

Our extended minds and AI notetakers
·Artificial Intelligence

Our extended minds and AI notetakers

Transcription tools enhance our intelligence, allow us to revisit conversations and glean insights we might have missed, and share knowledge with extended teams. Here's what you need to know to select the right one for you

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N S Ramnath

N S Ramnath

Senior Editor, Founding Fuel

Who owns your data—you, the creator, or the platform?
·Economy, Policy & Society

Who owns your data—you, the creator, or the platform?

The Kunal Kamra-BookMyShow face-off is more than a dust-up between a performer and a ticketing platform. It is a snapshot of a larger issue that will only become more pressing. And it impacts all of us

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N S Ramnath

N S Ramnath

Senior Editor, Founding Fuel

The Billion-User Bet
·Economy, Policy & Society

The Billion-User Bet

Nandan Nilekani’s key to unlock the Indian market opportunity and galvanise growth: reforms in the four key areas of technology, capital, entrepreneurship and formalization

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N S Ramnath

N S Ramnath

Senior Editor, Founding Fuel

The existential dilemmas facing cultural festivals
·Economy, Policy & Society

The existential dilemmas facing cultural festivals

Can a festival survive and thrive without corporate sponsorship? Yes — and here’s how Bangalore literature festival found freedom through community funding

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N S Ramnath

N S Ramnath

Senior Editor, Founding Fuel