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Who Was the School Day Built For?

Who Was the School Day Built For?

India’s school system was built to educate at scale. Its classrooms, exams and incentives reveal what that design rewards—and the individual child it struggles to see.

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Nandita Abraham

Nandita Abraham

Founding Dean | BITS Design School, Mumbai

Who Owns the Fire?

Who Owns the Fire?

A leader can light the spark. The harder question is what happens to the fire afterwards?

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Satish Pradhan

Satish Pradhan

Independent Consultant

Forget the Timers. Fix the Ground.

Forget the Timers. Fix the Ground.

Top-down restrictions often teach kids how to outsmart the rules rather than manage themselves. Here is why an indirect approach works when direct prohibition fails.

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N S Ramnath

N S Ramnath

Senior Editor | Founding Fuel

The Battle for the Tata Inheritance

The Battle for the Tata Inheritance

The struggle inside Tata Trusts is exposing a question that goes far beyond personalities: can an unusual compact between philanthropy, ownership and corporate power survive the loss of the steward who held it together?

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Indrajit Gupta

Indrajit Gupta

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

One state, several images

One state, several images

The Indian state does not feel the same to everyone. Those everyday encounters shape trust—and reveal what national averages can hide.

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Arjo Basu

Arjo Basu

Systems thinker & technologist | Entrepreneur

What Sits Upstream of the KPI

What Sits Upstream of the KPI

Every KPI carries a strategic hypothesis. The real work of governance is to preserve that reasoning and create a trusted path for evidence to travel back.

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Debleena Majumdar
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Arjo Basu

Debleena Majumdar & Arjo Basu

Be Unreasonable

Be Unreasonable

How photographer Amit Verma turned a series of unconventional and “unreasonable” bets into a distinctive body of work—and a reputation to match.

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Charles Assisi

Charles Assisi

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

Who Was India's Healthcare Built For?

Who Was India's Healthcare Built For?

India has spent eight decades bringing healthcare within reach. But roads, trust, gender and the freedom to be sick still determine who can actually use it.

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Nandita Abraham

Nandita Abraham

Founding Dean | BITS Design School, Mumbai