When Visibility Stopped Working as a Measure of Performance
As work becomes less visible, the systems used to measure it are starting to fail—and expose what they were really rewarding
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Breaking Ranks: The UAE, Saudi Arabia, and the Unravelling of Gulf Consensus
As the UAE exits OPEC, long-simmering economic and strategic divergences with Saudi Arabia begin to reshape Gulf politics and energy markets
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
Managing the Human–AI Organisation
Six capabilities leaders need as AI enters everyday work
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.
We Passed the Exam. We Failed the Economy
On how India built its education system faster than it built the economy to absorb it
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
Built to Move, Designed to Stop
Why India’s systems keep interrupting its own momentum
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.
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
The Economy We Have, Not the One We Imagined
Why the Gulf crisis may be India’s moment for the next phase of reform
A War India Didn’t Choose—and a Market It Can’t Escape
From Hormuz to Dalal Street, a distant conflict is quietly reshaping risk for Indian investors—and exposing the limits of “India-only” portfolios
The Knowledge Divide: How AI Will Reorganise Work, Margins, and Power
As AI agents embed intelligence into systems, the real shift is not automation—but how knowledge is owned, shared, and scaled across organisations
Designing for Signal
A conversation between Charles Assisi and Shrinath V on rebuilding Founding Fuel
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
Oscar 2026: A Study in Extremes
Chaos, craft and the return of the auteur
Oscar Predictions 2026: Who Will Win—and Why
My annual curtain-raiser: the likely winners, the dark horses, and the one film you should actually watch.
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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Beyond the Headlines: The Human Complexity of the Middle East
Books, films and cultural works that help us see the Middle East beyond the noise of geopolitics
·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.
·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.
·investing
Your Life Is Already Long India. Your Portfolio Shouldn’t Be
Why global diversification is less about chasing returns and more about protecting your financial future from a single-country risk
·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