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Energy dependence, remittance flows and trade corridors reveal how deeply India’s economy is tied to stability in West Asia. Part II of a two-part series.
Energy chokepoints, proxy escalation and great-power recalibration are reshaping the Gulf and unsettling the global order. Part I of a two-part series.
Even if Trump’s tariffs disappear, the forces reshaping global trade—geopolitics, security concerns and reconfigured regional blocs—are here to stay
As major powers turn artificial intelligence towards science and national security, India must widen its AI vision beyond inclusion and productivity
Speed is not strategy. The real battle is over sovereignty, science and state capacity
What India’s agreements with the US and EU reveal about power, policy space, and calibrated accommodation
On prompting, intent, and the discipline of asking well
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
Why India’s future power will be shaped less by diplomacy and more by trade architecture
Economic collapse, political revolt and great-power rivalry converge in Iran’s most dangerous moment in decades.
From sacred groves to the Western Ghats, Gadgil’s work rebuilt the bridge between science and lived experience.
What prolonged global conflicts mean for Europe, China—and India’s narrowing strategic space.
As the world fixates on large language models, a quieter shift toward world models, scientific AI and safety is reshaping global power
How Trump’s tariffs, Europe’s capitulation, China’s counter-moves and India’s narrowing room for manoeuvre reshaped the global order.
Ambassador Shyam Saran on a post-American order, a slowing China, and how India must balance room for manoeuvre with hard-headed realism on Russia, the US and China.
Europe entered 2025 already strained by war, fractured politics, and economic anxiety. As Philippe Le Corre explains, this was the year when three pressures collided—an unending war in Ukraine, a drastically altered transatlantic dynamic under Trump 2.0, and a more openly competitive China
When innovation icons turn into liability machines, it’s not chemistry that fails—it’s governance, incentives, and courage
Justin Logan of the Cato Institute on how Trump’s second term reshaped global trade, defense alignments, and America’s domestic equilibrium—and why the turbulence may be far from over
Three competing visions inside the MAGA movement—over AI, immigration and national sovereignty—may determine America’s technological doctrine for the next decade
Sundeep Waslekar, president of Strategic Foresight Group, on a West in turmoil, an international order in free fall, and an AI race racing ahead of rules.
When machines, like humans, fail to see difference—and turn bias into code
How does China see the Trumpian reset of the global order? What's really happening inside its domestic economy? And are we seeing signs of a thaw with India? A conversation with Chinese economist Prof. Yao Yang
Inside the growing chorus of doubt from AI’s own pioneers
Beneath the chatter about chatbots, a deeper contest is unfolding—between nations, companies, and scientists racing to build the AI that will control life itself
Tariffs were designed for a world of steel and sugar. They’re hopelessly out of sync with the quantum-entangled world of semiconductors
Around the world, families are fighting back against AI harms. Why is India still silent?
Israel’s strike on Qatar has triggered a dangerous new phase in the Middle East — exposing Washington’s conflicting roles as ally and broker
Notes from 'Reshuffle: Who Wins when AI Restacks the Knowledge Economy’, Sangeet Paul Choudary's new book
As with the atomic bomb, a new technology threatens humanity. Will we look up this time—or repeat history’s worst mistake?
AI can speak in dozens of tongues — but often thinks in just one. Why India must lead in building systems fluent in its own realities
What does artificial intelligence look like when viewed through the lens of justice, solidarity, and Ubuntu?
What will it take for India to lead, not just react, in the age of AI? An exclusive Founding Fuel - NatStrat Live session
Deception is no longer a human trait. AI has learned it too
While the world fixates on AI breakthroughs in the US and China, South Korea is crafting a distinctive and balanced model—powered by innovation and governed by foresight
In the Indo-Pacific, America’s transactionalism collides with its strategic incoherence—posing hard choices for its partners
How India can shape, not just follow, the global rules of AI governance
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Most AI today works within the boundaries set by human designers. New tools like Google's AutoML-Zero challenge that boundary
AI can detect disease and find medicines which no doctor can. It can also develop biological weapons which do not exist on the earth
Tanuj Bhojwani and Anmol Shrivastava answer questions on how to make AI a part of your lives
Ukraine’s critical minerals deal with the US hangs on the edge of a precipice. Will it be a harbinger of peace with Russia? Or a deal too complex for even Trump to swing?
15 takeaways from Part 2 of the two-part Masterclass series with former foreign secretary Shyam Saran
17 takeaways on the new dynamics in geopolitics and geoeconomics, especially after Donald Trump’s inauguration as US president, the shifting sands in the Middle East with conflict and informal fragile truce, and the big decadal shifts
Along the march of AI, two issues need attention: one is of regulation. The other, equally critical, is ensuring that the poor can access and learn the best and latest tech
Five curated stories on how and why to begin experimenting with AI
Are you adapting, exploring, or waiting for change to push you forward?
The defining challenges for India as it tries to balance demands from the US administration, and its own Asian backyard, which is increasingly coming under the dragon’s shadow
In a world brimming with AI possibilities, it’s easy to get lost in the hype. But the magic is not in the perfect tools, it’s in using them thoughtfully. Whether you’re a beginner or already well-versed, the key is to start simple and experiment boldly. Like learning to ride a bike, the more you engage, the more natural it will feel. Here’s how I am learning
Six industries to watch as the complicated relationship between the two countries in geopolitics extends to technology too
The ghosts of the past will continue to haunt long into the future
