·FF Life
Raghu Rai, Who Taught Us How to See India
A tribute to the veteran photojournalist whose work revealed the country’s beauty, contradictions, and defining moments
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
NS Ramnath is a member of the founding team & Lead - Newsroom Innovation at Founding Fuel, and co-author of the book, The Aadhaar Effect. His main interests lie in technology, business, society, and how they interact and influence each other. He writes a regular column on disruptive technologies, and takes regular stock of key news and perspectives from across the world.
Ram, as everybody calls him, experiments with newer story-telling formats, tailored for the smartphone and social media as well, the outcomes of which he shares with everybody on the team. It then becomes part of a knowledge repository at Founding Fuel and is continuously used to implement and experiment with content formats across all platforms.
He is also involved with data analysis and visualisation at a startup, How India Lives.
Prior to Founding Fuel, Ramnath was with Forbes India and Economic Times as a business journalist. He has also written for The Hindu, Quartz and Scroll. He has degrees in economics and financial management from Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning.
He tweets at @rmnth and spends his spare time reading on philosophy.
My Work at Founding Fuel
·FF Life
On the Edge: Urgent Stories Our Wild Places Tell—A Tribute to Ramki
In memory of a friend, mentor, and conservationist, we present the 2025 Ramki Sreenivasan Conservation Photography Award—images that reveal the startling, intimate, and often uncomfortable ways in which human lives now intersect with the wild
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Leadership & Organisation
Zoho’s New CEO, Same Grounded Playbook
As Sridhar Vembu steps back to focus on AI, Shailesh Davey takes the lead, steering Zoho into the future, on its own terms
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Artificial Intelligence
Our extended minds and AI notetakers
Transcription tools enhance our intelligence, allow us to revisit conversations and glean insights we might have missed, and share knowledge with extended teams. Here's what you need to know to select the right one for you
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
Who owns your data—you, the creator, or the platform?
The Kunal Kamra-BookMyShow face-off is more than a dust-up between a performer and a ticketing platform. It is a snapshot of a larger issue that will only become more pressing. And it impacts all of us
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
The Billion-User Bet
Nandan Nilekani’s key to unlock the Indian market opportunity and galvanise growth: reforms in the four key areas of technology, capital, entrepreneurship and formalization
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
Briefing #3 | The US-China tech rivalry: More than tech
Six industries to watch as the complicated relationship between the two countries in geopolitics extends to technology too
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
The existential dilemmas facing cultural festivals
Can a festival survive and thrive without corporate sponsorship? Yes — and here’s how Bangalore literature festival found freedom through community funding
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·FF Life
FF Life: A beginner's guide to graphic novels
Discovering the power of visual language
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·FF Life
FF Life: The art of slowing down
An effective antidote to the cult of speed
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel