The Courage to Be Tested Again
What an examination taught me that four decades of experience could not
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Indranil Gupta
Founder Director | BrandNEW Associates
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Noticing: The Forgotten Skill of a Modern Life
The future changes when someone pauses long enough to ask a simple question: Why?
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Kavi Arasu
Works at the intersection of people, systems, and organisational change
My 10 Best Business Books of Summer 2026
The best books of the year so far—on disagreeing constructively, culture, strategic subtraction, genius, China's advantage, an India you think you know, creativity, establishment paralysis, imposter syndrome, and reimagining your career
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
The 20-Watt Brain vs. The Megawatt LLM: Why AI's Information Avalanche Is Failing Human Decision-Making
We make thousands of decisions every day using remarkably little conscious thought. In a conversation around his new book ‘Micro Stimuli’, Biju Dominic explains what that means for AI, communication, and the way we persuade ourselves and others.
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
When Thinking Starts Making Noise
As speech-to-text tools become eerily good, they are changing not just how we write, but how we think, remember, and inhabit private space
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
The Drift Towards Busyness
A management consultant reflects on how modern corporate life slowly rewards motion without intentionality—and why protecting space for life beyond work has become a conscious discipline.
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Nikhil Sethi
Advisor on strategy and transformation
The “Chill Maadi” Family that Made It Across the World’s Highest Hikeable Pass
A Bengaluru family with no mountaineering background spent eight months preparing for the Annapurna Circuit—and discovered that ordinary people may be capable of far more than they imagine.
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Sanjay Swamy
Co-Founder and Managing Partner | Prime
Forks in the Road
What happens when progress stops asking for permission?
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Kavi Arasu
Leadership and Talent Development Professional
The Journey We’ve Already Paid For
We spend a lifetime storing money, only to realise we were really storing time
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Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
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
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
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