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
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
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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
Systems thinker & technologist | Entrepreneur
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
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
Tools and the Shape of Us
How to stop wasting time on tools without going deaf to what is changing
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Kavi Arasu
Works at the intersection of people, systems, and organisational change
The Brief for a Country
Three basic needs. Sixty years of policy choices. A country still living with the trade-offs. How India designed for food, livelihoods and shelter—and who those choices left out.
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Nandita Abraham
Founding Dean | BITS Design School, Mumbai
The Ramayana and The Many Languages of Truth
Myth, Legend, History, Fact. Exploring the truths the Ramayana reveals about history, faith and ourselves
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Vijay Bhat
Founder-Director | Roots & Wings Consulting Services
The Healing Kitchen
Many try to fix health with separate diets or willpower. A better way is to design the kitchen itself, so the easiest choice is also the healthy one—for everyone in the family.
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Hiteshi Dhami Shah
Clinical Nutritionist
Embracing the Mess
AI can master discrete tasks. But judgment, relationships and responsibility are messy—and that may be exactly where humans matter most
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
What Happened to Just Being Stupid?
The young professionals who don't want AI to think for them
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Ipsita Bandyopadhyay
Head of Research and Strategy | Quipper Research
The Story That Refuses to Die
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is more than another adaptation of Homer's epic. It is an invitation to rediscover why one ancient story continues to illuminate the human condition nearly three thousand years after it was first told.
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Uma Narain
Former Founding Dean | School of Liberal Arts, NMIMS University
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