·Climate & Environmental Sustainability
The Ecology of Engagement: What Madhav Gadgil Taught Us to See
From sacred groves to the Western Ghats, Gadgil’s work rebuilt the bridge between science and lived experience.
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·Regulation & Institutions
Toxic Greed: How a $12.5 Billion Crisis Exposed a Global Corporate Failure
When innovation icons turn into liability machines, it’s not chemistry that fails—it’s governance, incentives, and courage
·Strategic Affairs & Geopolitics
Masterclass: The World in 2025 - Part 2
15 takeaways from Part 2 of the two-part Masterclass series with former foreign secretary Shyam Saran
·Development & State Capacity
The Indian economy is in danger of suffering a heatstroke
As it rolls out the world’s biggest-ever election, there’s a bigger challenge confronting India’s governance systems: Heat
·Strategic Affairs & Geopolitics
Is the world increasingly becoming a dangerous place to live?
The existential threat to human civilization is not from wars, but from nuclear disaster and climate change. This is the first in our Year End Special series on making sense of the biggest economic and geopolitical shifts and what they signal
·Climate & Environmental Sustainability
A river in spate, landslides and nature’s fury
Climate change and growing urbanisation is slowly but surely changing a way of life in Himachal Pradesh. A tale of two ordinary villages and one town that are not on the tourist map
·Strategic Affairs & Geopolitics
Masterclass: The World in 2023
A top-class panel of experts decodes the world of opportunity and risk on multiple fronts
·Strategic Affairs & Geopolitics
The World in 2022: Events that shaped our world
Eight experts from various fields list the defining events of the year and their impact
·Strategic Affairs & Geopolitics
The best stories of 2022
December 24, 2022: On the US-China rivalry, Russia-Ukraine war, concerns about climate change, but also hope, India and China, contrarian leaders, and more
·Development & State Capacity
FF Insights #660: The Big Tech hypocrisy
May 27, 2022: Pioneers and institution builders; An American dream gone sour; Getting things done
·Strategic Affairs & Geopolitics
FF Insights #648: ‘If India and China stood together…’
May 11, 2022: The resource crunch; Musical diplomacy; Creativity unleashed
·Climate & Environmental Sustainability
FF Insights #639: What’s in a name?
April 27, 2022: The flip side of going green; An eye on Pakistan; Going with the wind
·Climate & Environmental Sustainability
Making Sense of the Climate Crisis with Simon Mundy
A conversation with the author of ‘Race for Tomorrow’ on how the crisis and the experiments to avert it are reshaping our world
·Climate & Environmental Sustainability
FF Insights #627: A chance to be something specific
April 8, 2022: The fungi cleaning Delhi’s air; Most BRICs fall; How time flies
·Climate & Environmental Sustainability
The race for food security
Climate change is undoing the gains India made from the green revolution. In this extract from his book, Race for Tomorrow, Simon Mundy talks about how, in the struggle to respond, companies like Mahyco are experimenting with genetic engineering to create new super-crops
·Regulation & Institutions
FF Insights #623: The economic landscape
April 4, 2022: How to work?; The carbon gap; Personal communications
·Climate & Environmental Sustainability
FF Insights #616: Slow food
March 24, 2022: India’s Russia problem; Ventilate; What is it with Apple and history?
·Climate & Environmental Sustainability
FF Insights #611: An eye on renewable energy
March 16, 2022: A love letter; The colour of money; Management education
·Development & State Capacity
FF Insights #610: What are your ambitions?
March 15, 2022: Managing the economy as if people mattered; Life beyond Mastercard and Visa; Defy convention
·Climate & Environmental Sustainability
Day of the starmakers
Unlimited energy from nuclear fusion is coming within humanity’s grasp
·Development & State Capacity
FF Insights #586: Us versus Them
February 9, 2022: The mystery of empty planes; Why Spotify wins; It’s elementary
·Climate & Environmental Sustainability
FF Insights #576: The human cost of fossil fuels
January 25, 2022: India is hurting; Social media’s driving force; Plain speak
·Global Trade and Geoeconomics
Top Ten books of 2021
This year’s list reflects and helps us decode a lot that has changed since the pandemic
·Strategic Affairs & Geopolitics
FF Daily #555: The tell
December 22, 2021: Masterclass: The World in 2022; On paradoxes; Contemporary philosophy
·Strategic Affairs & Geopolitics
Masterclass: The World in 2022
What is the global impact of the US-China tussle? Is Asia rising? What about global economic recovery and sustainability? Kanti Bajpai, Viral Acharya, Nicholas Parker, and Sundeep Waslekar offer a multidisciplinary view on the key drivers of change
·Climate & Environmental Sustainability
FF Daily #527: When opposites coexist
November 19, 2021: China’s big plans for nuclear; The rise of MetaKovan Sundaresan; Generation gap
·Climate & Environmental Sustainability
FF Daily #515: Faith and science
November 5, 2021: Greta’s Dilemma; Work-life relationships; Summits explained
·Climate & Environmental Sustainability
The games we play with each other
Solutions for problems such as climate change are unlikely to come from experts who rely on numbers, and from economists who rely on self-interest and the invisible hand for progress. This is part of a zero sum, competitive, narrative. But nature is complex and insists on cooperation
·Climate & Environmental Sustainability
The climate crisis: We need cooperation, not competition
The world needs new explanations of how complex systems evolve to save itself from catastrophe. Theories of progress must put cooperation—at all levels—in the foreground, and look beyond national self-interest
·Development & State Capacity
FF Daily #501: The connection between beauty and function
October 18, 2021: Do MLAs matter?; Behind Xi Jinping’s throne; Life is unfair
·Development & State Capacity
FF Daily #460: Modern progress and loneliness
August 27, 2021: Why India must invest more in healthcare infrastructure; A simple innovation to improve living conditions; Back to movies
·Development & State Capacity
FF Daily #447: Why the year 1769 matters
August 11, 2021: The modern age; An education emergency; Code Red: Innovating for sustainability; Read the fine print
·Development & State Capacity
FF Daily #443: Leonardo da Vinci & ecodesign
August 6, 2021: What’s changing in Indian sports; How to prepare for disasters: Lessons from Japan; Support vs. applause
·Regulation & Institutions
FF Daily #436: Michael Sandel on limits of markets
July 29, 2021: Is organic food sustainable; China’s curious tech battle; A dog’s life
·Strategic Affairs & Geopolitics
FF Daily #431: Shut up; Reporting from Afghanistan; Creating rain
July 23, 2021: On silence, reporting from a war zone, climate change, and the thing about dads
·Climate & Environmental Sustainability
FF Daily #387: The limits of ingenuity
June 2, 2021: Elizabeth Kolbert on climate change; Anand Deshpande’s dilemmas; Bootstrapping versus funding; Elegy for the Arctic
·Development & State Capacity
Power to the people
The vaccine crisis is yet another proof that principles of capitalism are at variance with the needs of humanity. Instead of top-down policies, focus on profits and economies of scale, local on-the-ground solutions and the economies of scope that they bring, can be the founding fuel for transformative change
·Development & State Capacity
FF Daily #308: How systems fail
February 25, 2021: How to align your strengths with customer needs; Hong Kong’s two-pronged strategy to go green; The secret history of emojis
·Climate & Environmental Sustainability
FF Daily #296: Greta Thunberg, farm laws & environmentalist’s dilemma
February 11, 2021: Philosophy and religion; Why international travel will remain a pain; Jobs versus Cook
·Development & State Capacity
FF Daily #289: The case of India’s Covid-19 numbers
February 3, 2021: How to think about market volatility; Are you a digital hoarder?; The new WFH pack
·Strategic Affairs & Geopolitics
Masterclass: The World in 2021
What were the big changes—beyond Covid-19—that 2020 ushered in? And what can we expect in the New Year? A session in sensemaking
·Development & State Capacity
WFH Daily #159: The idea of beauty
August 29, 2020: Artist Shakti Maira on beauty; Ground Realities: The new labour hubs; How indigenous tech can make cities smart; The sunny side
·Climate & Environmental Sustainability
Why MSMEs should look at climate financing
The Growth Factor: MSMEs, climate change, and climate financing; how digital tech can break the informal economy trap; investments into fintech
·Regulation & Institutions
WFH Daily #117: Don't just solve immediate problems. Think of consequences too
July 18: Kaushik Basu on two-stage thinking; how some climate activists undermine their own cause; anticipate and neutralise value destroyers; read history
·Development & State Capacity
An inflection point is upon us
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, a few important experiments are going on at an unprecedented scale
·Development & State Capacity
Who do economists serve, really?
Mainstream economic theories do not fit reality. Two new books, ‘Measuring What Counts’ and ‘Good Economics for Hard Times’, provide a counterview: Instead of treating people as data, listen to them, and find answers to their real problems for inclusive, sustainable progress
·Climate & Environmental Sustainability
The new China is more than just about growth
Today, the country’s focus is on exploiting the benefits of economic modernisation to redefine the goals of society in three critical areas: environmental regulation, technological innovation, and corporate social responsibility. Insights from a week-long immersion
·Development & State Capacity
Local Systems Solutions: A framework for solving urban challenges
Challenges such as garbage collection are universal, yet deeply local to each city. And they are the result of many aspects of the city system being broken. A systems approach, adapted to the local context, can help find unique solutions
·Climate & Environmental Sustainability
An ethical toolkit for systems transformers
Sustainable progress of humanity requires a new toolkit with three disciplines: systems thinking, ethical reasoning, and collaborative enterprise design
·Climate & Environmental Sustainability
The dilemmas of climate change, rise of the right, and technology
This Week: The Mindtree-L&T takeover battle, understanding ultra-nationalism, electric vehicles, Ather Energy, climate change, and more