About the author

N S Ramnath
N S Ramnath

Senior Editor

Founding Fuel

NS Ramnath is a member of the founding team & Lead - Newsroom Innovation at Founding Fuel, and co-author of the book, The Aadhaar Effect. His main interests lie in technology, business, society, and how they interact and influence each other. He writes a regular column on disruptive technologies, and takes regular stock of key news and perspectives from across the world. 

Ram, as everybody calls him, experiments with newer story-telling formats, tailored for the smartphone and social media as well, the outcomes of which he shares with everybody on the team. It then becomes part of a knowledge repository at Founding Fuel and is continuously used to implement and experiment with content formats across all platforms. 

He is also involved with data analysis and visualisation at a startup, How India Lives.

Prior to Founding Fuel, Ramnath was with Forbes India and Economic Times as a business journalist. He has also written for The Hindu, Quartz and Scroll. He has degrees in economics and financial management from Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning.

He tweets at @rmnth and spends his spare time reading on philosophy.

Articles By Me

India fights a drought
India fights a drought

In this podcast, Amit Chandra, managing director of Bain Capital in India, social entrepreneur Nimesh Sumati and Sundeep Waslekar, president of Strategic Foresight Group, talk about how communities and social entrepreneurs are finding long-term systemic solutions and what India can learn from others

This Week in Disruptive Tech

This week in disruptive tech—February 3, 2016
This week in disruptive tech—February 3, 2016

A roundup of news and perspective on disruptive technology from around the world. In this issue: artificial intelligence, the fourth industrial revolution and blockchain.

This Week in Disruptive Tech

This week in disruptive tech—December 16, 2015
This week in disruptive tech—December 16, 2015

A roundup of news and perspective on disruptive technology from around the world. In this issue: artificial intelligence, cryptocurrencies, gene-editing, and alternative energy.

This Week in Disruptive Tech

This week in disruptive tech—November 29, 2015
This week in disruptive tech—November 29, 2015

A roundup of news and perspective on disruptive technology from around the world. In this issue: driverless cars, cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence and 3D printing.