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India looks stable. But trust is becoming conditional

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

Arjo Basu

Systems thinker & technologist | Entrepreneur

The Brief for a Country

The Brief for a Country

Three basic needs. Sixty years of policy choices. A country still living with the trade-offs. How India designed for food, livelihoods and shelter—and who those choices left out.

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Nandita Abraham

Nandita Abraham

Founding Dean | BITS Design School, Mumbai

Can you buy the future without learning from it?

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

Indrajit Gupta

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

The Case for Knowing Things You Don’t Need to Know

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

Kavi Arasu

Works at the intersection of people, systems, and organisational change

The Ramayana and The Many Languages of Truth

The Ramayana and The Many Languages of Truth

Myth, Legend, History, Fact. Exploring the truths the Ramayana reveals about history, faith and ourselves

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Vijay Bhat

Vijay Bhat

Founder-Director | Roots & Wings Consulting Services

The Race to Reinvent Nuclear Power

The Race to Reinvent Nuclear Power

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?

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S. Raghotham

S. Raghotham

Journalist and strategic analyst

The Healing Kitchen

The Healing Kitchen

Many try to fix health with separate diets or willpower. A better way is to design the kitchen itself, so the easiest choice is also the healthy one—for everyone in the family.

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Hiteshi Dhami Shah

Hiteshi Dhami Shah

Clinical Nutritionist

Why We Need Good Friction in the Age of AI

Why We Need Good Friction in the Age of AI

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.

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Varun Nagaraj

Varun Nagaraj

Dean and Professor of Information Management and Analytics | S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai

How Rogue AI Agents Could Blindside India

How Rogue AI Agents Could Blindside India

India is moving quickly to put autonomous AI systems to work. But is its capacity to govern them keeping pace?

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Anindya Dutta

Anindya Dutta

Founder | Two Roads and author