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Reform 3.0: What Has to Change

Reform 3.0: What Has to Change

India doesn’t need another reform agenda. It needs an economy that makes building, hiring, and growing easier.

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Haresh Chawla

Haresh Chawla

Investor | Entrepreneur

Reform 3.0: Why India Keeps Missing the Mountain

Reform 3.0: Why India Keeps Missing the Mountain

India didn’t falter for lack of ideas or ambition. It faltered because too many parts of its economy were never aligned toward the outcome that mattered most—productive work at scale.

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Haresh Chawla

Haresh Chawla

Investor | Entrepreneur

Forks in the Road

Forks in the Road

What happens when progress stops asking for permission?

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Kavi Arasu

Kavi Arasu

Leadership and Talent Development Professional

When Trust Becomes Infrastructure

When Trust Becomes Infrastructure

Part 4 of The Future of Work and Agentic AI series: As agents begin working together, trust shifts from intelligence to standards, governance, and control.

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Arjo Basu
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Debleena Majumdar

Arjo Basu & Debleena Majumdar

Raghu Rai, Who Taught Us How to See India

Raghu Rai, Who Taught Us How to See India

A tribute to the veteran photojournalist whose work revealed the country’s beauty, contradictions, and defining moments

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N S Ramnath

N S Ramnath

Senior Editor | Founding Fuel

A Country That Reads in Pictures

A Country That Reads in Pictures

In Japan, manga isn’t an industry—it’s culture at scale. A journey through the habits that made it so

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Ronaan Roy

Ronaan Roy

Former Deputy General Manager | Mahindra

Factories Without Formulas

Factories Without Formulas

India is investing billions in battery manufacturing. But without the capital to fund indigenous technology, the intelligence inside those factories may continue to be imported.

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Bharti Krishnan
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Mridu Jhangiani

Bharti Krishnan & Mridu Jhangiani

The Battle Cry in the Boardroom

The Battle Cry in the Boardroom

What looks like motivation—war footage, heroic narratives, calls to crush the competition—is often something else entirely: a system of thinking that rewires how organisations see markets, customers, and themselves

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Kavi Arasu

Kavi Arasu

Leadership and Talent Development Professional

When Work Runs on Two Minds

When Work Runs on Two Minds

As human and machine learning begin to intersect, work is no longer shaped by a single reinforcement loop, but by the interaction of fundamentally different ones. Part 2 of an ongoing series on the Future of Work and Agentic AI.

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Arjo Basu
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Debleena Majumdar

Arjo Basu & Debleena Majumdar

Where the Land Is Home

Where the Land Is Home

What happens when a centuries-old knowledge system—held in practice, not institutions—meets a world changing faster than it can adapt? The Changpas of Changthang are living that question.

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Tara Sharma

Tara Sharma

Founder | Jungwa Foundation

The System Holds, Until It Doesn’t

The System Holds, Until It Doesn’t

From the Gulf to global markets, events appear to move toward rupture and then stop short. The reason lies not in restraint, but in the invisible architecture of the system itself.

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Debajit Ghosh

Debajit Ghosh

Author

When AI Writes the Code, Who Guards the System?

When AI Writes the Code, Who Guards the System?

As AI-assisted coding accelerates software development, enterprises face a new challenge: ensuring governance, accountability, and safety keep pace with machine-speed innovation

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Chirantan Ghosh

Chirantan Ghosh

Seasoned technologist | Growth architect and business leader

The War in Iran: The Illusion of Decisive Force

The War in Iran: The Illusion of Decisive Force

One month in, the limits of conventional military power are being laid bare. As a “dual chokehold” on global energy flows emerges, the old security umbrella of the Gulf states is being dismantled. It is forcing a permanent re-pricing of both regional and global risk.

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Vivek Y. Kelkar

Vivek Y. Kelkar

Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability

Attraversiamo: Crossing Over in Italy

Attraversiamo: Crossing Over in Italy

A journey through Pompeii, Tuscany, Florence and Rome becomes a meditation on art, memory, and the fragile permanence of human endeavour

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Uma Narain

Uma Narain

Former Founding Dean | School of Liberal Arts, NMIMS University

Designing for Signal

Designing for Signal

A conversation between Charles Assisi and Shrinath V on rebuilding Founding Fuel

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Charles Assisi
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Shrinath V

Charles Assisi & Shrinath V

The Hallucination in the Room

The Hallucination in the Room

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

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Kavi Arasu

Kavi Arasu

Leadership and Talent Development Professional

How Iran Is Turning the Global Economy Into a Battlefield

How Iran Is Turning the Global Economy Into a Battlefield

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.

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Vivek Y. Kelkar

Vivek Y. Kelkar

Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability

The US–Israel War on Iran: The Risks to India’s Strategic Hedging
·Strategic Affairs & Geopolitics

The US–Israel War on Iran: The Risks to India’s Strategic Hedging

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.

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Vivek Y. Kelkar

Vivek Y. Kelkar

Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability

The US–Israel War on Iran: Energy, Power and Regional Disruption
·Strategic Affairs & Geopolitics

The US–Israel War on Iran: Energy, Power and Regional Disruption

Energy chokepoints, proxy escalation and great-power recalibration are reshaping the Gulf and unsettling the global order. Part I of a two-part series.

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Vivek Y. Kelkar

Vivek Y. Kelkar

Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability

Tariffs Are the Noise. Realignment Is the Signal
·Global Trade and Geoeconomics

Tariffs Are the Noise. Realignment Is the Signal

Even if Trump’s tariffs disappear, the forces reshaping global trade—geopolitics, security concerns and reconfigured regional blocs—are here to stay

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Vivek Y. Kelkar

Vivek Y. Kelkar

Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability

The Happiness We Keep Postponing
·Happiness, Meaning & Purpose

The Happiness We Keep Postponing

A reflection on joy, and why the ordinary day may be enough

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Haresh Chawla

Haresh Chawla

Investor | Entrepreneur

The Blind Spots of India Inc
·Diversity & Inclusion

The Blind Spots of India Inc

Disability inclusion, leadership imagination, and the limits of intent

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Subhashis Sinha
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Nikunj Kumar Jain

Subhashis Sinha & Nikunj Kumar Jain

India’s AI Moment
·The Geopolitics of AI

India’s AI Moment

As major powers turn artificial intelligence towards science and national security, India must widen its AI vision beyond inclusion and productivity

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Pankaj Saran

Pankaj Saran

Convenor | NatStrat

Redesigning Work—or Retreating to Control
·Work from Anywhere and Future of Work

Redesigning Work—or Retreating to Control

Why the real risk in the return-to-office debate isn’t resistance, but the quiet erosion of judgement and capability

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Kavi Arasu

Kavi Arasu

Leadership and Talent Development Professional

India Is Asking the Wrong Question About AI
·Development & State Capacity

India Is Asking the Wrong Question About AI

Why India’s AI moment will be decided less by models—and more by how intelligence is applied, governed, and trusted

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Haresh Chawla

Haresh Chawla

Investor | Entrepreneur

Anatomy of a Prompt
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Anatomy of a Prompt

On prompting, intent, and the discipline of asking well

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Debleena Majumdar
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Arjo Basu

Debleena Majumdar & Arjo Basu

Relearning the Craft of Teaching
·Continuous & Immersive Learning

Relearning the Craft of Teaching

An eight-week teaching programme unsettles long-held assumptions about rigour, expertise, and what it truly means to help students learn

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Uma Narain

Uma Narain

Former Founding Dean | School of Liberal Arts, NMIMS University

America’s Iran Trap Is Closing
·Strategic Affairs & Geopolitics

America’s Iran Trap Is Closing

Carrier strike groups, nuclear deadlines and a brittle regime in Tehran are converging on a moment where Washington may discover that every move—strike, sabotage or restraint—ends in escalation

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Vivek Y. Kelkar

Vivek Y. Kelkar

Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability