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.
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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Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
As Sridhar Vembu steps back to focus on AI, Shailesh Davey takes the lead, steering Zoho into the future, on its own terms
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
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Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
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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Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
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
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
Six industries to watch as the complicated relationship between the two countries in geopolitics extends to technology too
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
Can a festival survive and thrive without corporate sponsorship? Yes — and here’s how Bangalore literature festival found freedom through community funding
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
Discovering the power of visual language
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
An effective antidote to the cult of speed
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Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
Five books to nurture your systems thinking skills
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
The outlook for fintech companies has shifted from unchecked optimism to uncertainty. The rose-tinted glasses are off and some of the well-funded companies are pivoting. Their future will depend on their ability to look beyond technology as the panacea. Part 1 of a 4-part series
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Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
The ground reality has changed. Fintechs are realising that partnerships and ecosystem thinking are key to winning the market, not competing with the incumbents. Part 2 of a 4-part series
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
Fintechs bet on data and algos to know the credit-worthiness of the underserved. However, there's a gap in what the data can reveal because of consumer behaviour. Part 3 of a 4-part series
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
Fintech must contend with inherent conflicts with what the regulators want. Fintech’s push for rapid scaling needs to balance with the regulators’ push for financial stability and consumer protection. Part 4 in this 4-part series
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
Philosophy as an intimate, lived practice rather than a remote academic field
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Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
July 15, 2023: How to filter out distractions
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Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
Beyond the movie, there are a number of reasons why the Cholas matter. Here’s how one can follow the Chola trail and get a deeper experience of what you saw in the movie
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Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
How Obsidian is helping me save ideas and tonnes of information, and also retrieve it and see connections and patterns
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
Doodling sharpens your visual thinking and communication skills. But the process is teaching me more than sketching
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
August 6, 2022: There is more to chess than following the game
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
Sridhar Vembu built Zoho by questioning the conventional wisdom. For the longest time, no one took much notice. But now people are curious about what makes him—and Zoho—tick
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
May 21, 2022: Four books and two films that help us decode what is causing a crisis this harsh in the island nation
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Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
Five apps and ideas to create decks that are both beautiful and functional
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
Renaming Facebook as Meta indicates a big bet on the metaverse, as well as an “escape hatch” from the issues and scrutiny Facebook has been facing. The entire industry is at the beginning of a big wave and Mark Zuckerberg has been building capacity for some years now. However, the key to Meta’s success will depend on whether and how fast customers adopt it to work, learn, play, build and live.
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
The Account Aggregator framework is aimed at giving control of data back to users; but the road will be rough and full of resistance
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
October 16, 2021 | FF Daily #500: FF Recommends handheld gimbals
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Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
Why did the IT major mess up the high-profile government project? No one quite knows the answer. The clues, however, lie in the inherent difficulties in executing tech projects for the government
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Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
How to make meaning from data and the deluge of information
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
This Week in Disruptive Tech | January 27, 2021: The media business; Sangeet Paul Choudary on empowering workers; Will Clubhouse click in India
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Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
January 14, 2021: Richard Feynman on leaving room for doubt; How Mumbai Traffic Police became a brand; How to thrive in a vuca world; Privacy vs People
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
This Week in Disruptive Tech | December 3, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
This Week in Disruptive Tech | December 3, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
This Week in Disruptive Tech | November 25, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
This Week in Disruptive Tech | November 19, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
This Week in Disruptive Tech | November 4, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
This Week in Disruptive Tech | October 28, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
This Week in Disruptive Tech | October 21, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
This Week in Disruptive Tech | October 14, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
This Week in Disruptive Tech | October 8, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
This Week in Disruptive Tech | October 1, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
