·Leadership & Organisation
The Blind Spots of India Inc
Disability inclusion, leadership imagination, and the limits of intent
SS
Subhashis Sinha
Professor of Practice, HR & Behavioural Sciences | School of Business Management, NMIMS Mumbai
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·Artificial Intelligence
India’s AI Moment
As major powers turn artificial intelligence towards science and national security, India must widen its AI vision beyond inclusion and productivity
PS
Pankaj Saran
Convenor | NatStrat
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
Redesigning Work—or Retreating to Control
Why the real risk in the return-to-office debate isn’t resistance, but the quiet erosion of judgement and capability
KA
Kavi Arasu
Works at the intersection of people, systems, and organisational change
·Artificial Intelligence
India’s AI Gambit: The Choices That Will Define Power
Speed is not strategy. The real battle is over sovereignty, science and state capacity
FF
Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
India’s Trade Deals and the New Meaning of Strategic Autonomy
What India’s agreements with the US and EU reveal about power, policy space, and calibrated accommodation
VK
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
·Economy, Policy & Society
India Is Asking the Wrong Question About AI
Why India’s AI moment will be decided less by models—and more by how intelligence is applied, governed, and trusted
HC
Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
·Artificial Intelligence
Anatomy of a Prompt
On prompting, intent, and the discipline of asking well
DM
Debleena Majumdar
Entrepreneur & business leader | Author
·Economy, Policy & Society
Trendspotting 2026: India Cannot App Its Way to Prosperity
Another 50 tech IPOs won’t build a middle class
HC
Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
·Economy, Policy & Society
Between Jugaad and Destiny: India’s Missing Medium Term
Why a civilisation that thinks in eternity still struggles to plan in decades
AC
Ajay Chacko
Director | Keya Foods International
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
Relearning the Craft of Teaching
An eight-week teaching programme unsettles long-held assumptions about rigour, expertise, and what it truly means to help students learn
UN
Uma Narain
Former Founding Dean | School of Liberal Arts, NMIMS University
·Economy, Policy & Society
America’s Iran Trap Is Closing
Carrier strike groups, nuclear deadlines and a brittle regime in Tehran are converging on a moment where Washington may discover that every move—strike, sabotage or restraint—ends in escalation
VK
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
·Leadership & Organisation
When AI Raises the Average, Who Protects the Breakthrough?
Artificial intelligence is superb at optimisation. But transformation still comes from the deviations leaders choose to back.
DM
Debleena Majumdar
Entrepreneur & business leader | Author
·Business & Strategy
A Merger Is Not an Idea
Why the Omnicom - Interpublic deal reveals a deeper failure of imagination in advertising
SS
Shekar Swamy
MD & Group CEO | R K SWAMY Ltd
·Economy, Policy & Society
Trade Is the New Geopolitics—and India Must Learn to Play It
Why India’s future power will be shaped less by diplomacy and more by trade architecture
VK
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
·Business & Strategy
Inside Chennai’s Enduring Enterprises
A field report on family ownership, continuity, and the craft of building for the long term
UB
Upamanyu Bhattacharya
Professor of Retail | S P Jain Institute of Management & Research