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When incumbents buy, partner or outsource the capabilities demanded by each new disruption, they may solve today’s problem. The harder question is whether the parent company itself is still learning.
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
The things we learn outside our fields may sharpen how we see the world. But perhaps they matter most when we stop asking what they are useful for
Kavi Arasu
Works at the intersection of people, systems, and organisational change
A Danish startup wants to take a faster road to thorium and manufacture nuclear reactors by the thousands. Its audacious bet raises a question for India: what happens if the nuclear world changes before Homi Bhabha’s long-term vision is complete?
S. Raghotham
Journalist and strategic analyst
AI can make us better at knowing, deciding and executing. The leadership challenge is knowing which struggles to remove—and which ones we need to preserve.
Varun Nagaraj
Dean and Professor of Information Management and Analytics | S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai
India is moving quickly to put autonomous AI systems to work. But is its capacity to govern them keeping pace?
Anindya Dutta
Founder | Two Roads and author
AI is making information and analysis abundant. The harder strategic question is knowing what must change—and what must endure
Debleena Majumdar & Arjo Basu
The biggest competitive advantage in India's wastewater industry may no longer be better treatment technology. It may be the ability to finance, own and operate long-term water infrastructure.
Bharti Krishnan
Founder | Finetrain
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
