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The OpenAI incident is less about rogue machines than about a deeper shift: AI is becoming part of the cognitive architecture of modern institutions
Satish Pradhan
Independent Consultant
The six sixes made Sir Garfield Sobers famous. They barely explain why those who watched, played with and knew him still speak of him with such awe.
Anindya Dutta
Founder | Two Roads and author
The conflict is no longer just a military confrontation. It is rapidly becoming a struggle over the global energy system, maritime trade and geoeconomic power—with the Gulf caught in the middle
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
AI has made intelligence abundant. Why, then, is strategy becoming harder?
Debleena Majumdar & Arjo Basu
Artificial intelligence is advancing faster than governments can govern it. A new report argues that extreme AI risks demand a fundamentally different approach to global governance.
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
Ideas that help make sense of a changing world
Founding Fuel
The US-Iran talks in Switzerland may have reduced the immediate risk of war. But they did little to alter the Middle East's underlying balance of power. Iran remains central to the region's strategic calculations, Israel's concerns remain unresolved, and American leverage appears more limited than many assumed.
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
The real advantage in an AI-driven world may not be answering questions better, but knowing which questions matter
Anindya Dutta
Founder | Two Roads and author
Why India’s next manufacturing push may require trusting entrepreneurs more than planners
Ajay Chacko
Director | Keya Foods International
The energy transition is creating a brief opening in one of the hardest industrial sectors to crack. Can a new generation of Indian companies build lasting capabilities before the window closes?
Bharti Krishnan
Founder | Finetrain
A look at why standalone institutions continue to dominate postgraduate management in India, and what schools of management inside multidisciplinary universities must do if they hope to compete
S. Ramakrishna (Rama) Velamuri
Strategic Growth & Innovation Expert | Visiting Professor
From rail corridors and energy markets to missile inventories and military alliances, the world's major crises are becoming increasingly interconnected
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
Large language models can answer almost anything. The real challenge is figuring out what to ignore. An excerpt from Biju Dominic’s new book ‘MicroStimuli’
Biju Dominic
CEO and Co-Founder | Final Mile Consulting
A Vatican encyclical on artificial intelligence offers India an unexpected framework to think about sovereignty, autonomous warfare, algorithmic governance and the human costs of unchecked AI systems
Anindya Dutta
Founder | Two Roads and author
The final part in our series on the Future of Work and Agentic AI: why AI is changing the economics of intelligence itself
Arjo Basu & Debleena Majumdar
