·Economy, Policy & Society
The Best Stories of Summer 2026
Ideas that help make sense of a changing world
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Founding Fuel
Trending
Discover what's capturing attention across the Founding Fuel network this week.
·Economy, Policy & Society
Burgenstock and the New Reality of Power in the Middle East
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.
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Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
·Artificial Intelligence
The Question AI Cannot Ask
The real advantage in an AI-driven world may not be answering questions better, but knowing which questions matter
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Anindya Dutta
Founder | Two Roads and author
·Economy, Policy & Society
Democratising Capacity Creation
Why India’s next manufacturing push may require trusting entrepreneurs more than planners
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Ajay Chacko
Director | Keya Foods International
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
The 33kV Wall
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?
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Bharti Krishnan
Founder | Finetrain
·Business & Strategy
Why India’s Universities Struggle to Build Great Business Schools
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
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S. Ramakrishna (Rama) Velamuri
Strategic Growth & Innovation Expert | Visiting Professor
·Economy, Policy & Society
The Age of Connected Crises
From rail corridors and energy markets to missile inventories and military alliances, the world's major crises are becoming increasingly interconnected
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Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
·Artificial Intelligence
Why More Information Won't Make Better Decisions
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’
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Biju Dominic
CEO and Co-Founder | Final Mile Consulting
·Artificial Intelligence
The Machine That Must Not Kill
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
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Anindya Dutta
Founder | Two Roads and author
·Artificial Intelligence
The Price of Intelligence
The final part in our series on the Future of Work and Agentic AI: why AI is changing the economics of intelligence itself
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Arjo Basu
Systems thinker & technologist | Entrepreneur
·Economy, Policy & Society
Reform 3.0: What Has to Change
India doesn’t need another reform agenda. It needs an economy that makes building, hiring, and growing easier.
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Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
·Economy, Policy & Society
Reform 3.0: Why India Keeps Missing the Mountain
India didn’t falter for lack of ideas or ambition. It faltered because too many parts of its economy were never aligned toward the outcome that mattered most—productive work at scale.
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Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
·Artificial Intelligence
When Trust Becomes Infrastructure
Part 4 of The Future of Work and Agentic AI series: As agents begin working together, trust shifts from intelligence to standards, governance, and control.
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Arjo Basu
Systems thinker & technologist | Entrepreneur
·Artificial Intelligence
When Intelligence is Taken for Granted, Behaviour is What Matters
Part 3 of The Future of Work and Agentic AI series: As intelligence becomes abundant, organisations stop hiring for capability and begin designing for behaviour.
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Arjo Basu
Systems thinker & technologist | Entrepreneur
·Leadership & Organisation
When Visibility Stopped Working as a Measure of Performance
As work becomes less visible, the systems used to measure it are starting to fail—and expose what they were really rewarding
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Kavi Arasu
Works at the intersection of people, systems, and organisational change