Videos

The Covid lessons India failed to learn from its own history
The Covid lessons India failed to learn from its own history

A conversation with Chinmay Tumbe, author of ‘The Age of Pandemics’, where he talks about lessons from cholera, Spanish influenza and plague; why policy response lags the science; and what this could mean for India’s urbanisation and political leadership

Anand Deshpande’s founder’s dilemma at Persistent
Anand Deshpande’s founder’s dilemma at Persistent

After scaling up, do you get a professional to lead as CEO or continue at the helm? Where do you draw the lines between ownership and management? Is it better to exit totally or wait until the kids have grown up? If they want to, how do you induct them? When a crisis happens, do you step in or let professionals handle it? These are questions that Anand Deshpande, founder and chairman of Persistent Systems, has wrestled with and opens up on in this candid conversation

How the world has moved in the first quarter of 2021
How the world has moved in the first quarter of 2021

The first quarter of 2021 has been unusually busy, with many key developments playing out in the geopolitical sphere. We caught up with Sundeep Waslekar to decipher the implications

Untold stories about how India built its higher ed institutions
Untold stories about how India built its higher ed institutions

Stories of visionary leadership: How Homi Bhabha, Satish Dhawan, Ravi Matthai, PK Kelkar, and Verghese Kurien among others, built world class institutions

Reframing VUCA: What will it take for leaders to thrive in the next decade?
Reframing VUCA: What will it take for leaders to thrive in the next decade?

Futurist Bob Johansen talks about key principles from his new book ‘Full Spectrum Thinking’—which is the ability to make sense out of the future, across gradients of possibility, and take actions now to be a part of those possibilities