·Economy, Policy & Society
Guarding the Grain
Every new check on India’s ration system was meant to stop theft. None was designed to ask who gets turned away when it fails.
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Nandita Abraham
Founding Dean | BITS Design School, Mumbai
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·Business & Strategy
What a Lasting Tata Settlement Must Resolve
Ahead of Tata Sons’ pending AGM, the fight over leadership and listing is widening. A lasting settlement must resolve who decides, how capital is used and whose interests count.
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Satish Pradhan
Independent Consultant
·Economy, Policy & Society
Who Was the School Day Built For?
India’s school system was built to educate at scale. Its classrooms, exams and incentives reveal what that design rewards—and the individual child it struggles to see.
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Nandita Abraham
Founding Dean | BITS Design School, Mumbai
·Leadership & Organisation
Who Owns the Fire?
A leader can light the spark. The harder question is what happens to the fire afterwards?
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Satish Pradhan
Independent Consultant
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
The Water Opportunity Is Real. Building a Good Business Is Harder
Eight listed Indian companies show why a growing market doesn't guarantee durable value—and how some are finding ways around the difficult economics of water infrastructure.
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Bharti Krishnan
Founder | Finetrain
·Business & Strategy
The Battle for the Tata Inheritance
The struggle inside Tata Trusts is exposing a question that goes far beyond personalities: can an unusual compact between philanthropy, ownership and corporate power survive the loss of the steward who held it together?
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Business & Strategy
The Focal Firm Fallacy: When Customer Centricity Becomes Customer Suffocation
The most customer-centric companies know when to listen, when to engage—and when to get out of the way.
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S. Ramakrishna (Rama) Velamuri
Strategic Growth & Innovation Expert | Visiting Professor
·Artificial Intelligence
What Sits Upstream of the KPI
Every KPI carries a strategic hypothesis. The real work of governance is to preserve that reasoning and create a trusted path for evidence to travel back.
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Debleena Majumdar
Entrepreneur & business leader | Author
·Economy, Policy & Society
Who Was India's Healthcare Built For?
India has spent eight decades bringing healthcare within reach. But roads, trust, gender and the freedom to be sick still determine who can actually use it.
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Nandita Abraham
Founding Dean | BITS Design School, Mumbai
·Business & Strategy
The Real Question Behind a Tata Sons Listing
The debate is not simply about an IPO. It is about whether patient capital, stewardship and social purpose depend upon privacy, or can be protected through a different institutional architecture.
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Technology & the Future
Who Builds the Next Bhabha Movement?
Can India build a new compact between the state, science, industry and entrepreneurs?
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S. Raghotham
Journalist and strategic analyst
·Economy, Policy & Society
Making Geopolitics a Business Capability
Indian companies are more alert to geopolitics. The task now is to turn that awareness into capability: map dependencies, protect what matters, adapt the enterprise, and find competitive advantage in fragmentation.
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G Venkat Raman
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences | Indian Institute of Management, Indore
·Economy, Policy & Society
India looks stable. But trust is becoming conditional
A generation of Indians appears to be shifting from inherited faith in institutions to a running audit of their performance. That change could outlast any government—and reshape the risks facing anyone making long-term bets on the country.
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Arjo Basu
Systems thinker & technologist | Entrepreneur
·Business & Strategy
Can you buy the future without learning from it?
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.
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
The Case for Knowing Things You Don’t Need to Know
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
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Kavi Arasu
Works at the intersection of people, systems, and organisational change