Forget the Timers. Fix the Ground.
Top-down restrictions often teach kids how to outsmart the rules rather than manage themselves. Here is why an indirect approach works when direct prohibition fails.
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
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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
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
One state, several images
The Indian state does not feel the same to everyone. Those everyday encounters shape trust—and reveal what national averages can hide.
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Arjo Basu
Systems thinker & technologist | Entrepreneur
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
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 & Arjo Basu
Be Unreasonable
How photographer Amit Verma turned a series of unconventional and “unreasonable” bets into a distinctive body of work—and a reputation to match.
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
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
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
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