Fresh perspectives and timely insights from the Founding Fuel network. Stay current with the latest articles, conversations, and ideas shaping leadership and business strategy.
Why the real risk in the return-to-office debate isn’t resistance, but the quiet erosion of judgement and capability
Kavi Arasu
Leadership and Talent Development Professional
Speed is not strategy. The real battle is over sovereignty, science and state capacity
Founding Fuel
What India’s agreements with the US and EU reveal about power, policy space, and calibrated accommodation
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
Why India’s AI moment will be decided less by models—and more by how intelligence is applied, governed, and trusted
Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
On prompting, intent, and the discipline of asking well
Debleena Majumdar & Arjo Basu
Another 50 tech IPOs won’t build a middle class
Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
Why a civilisation that thinks in eternity still struggles to plan in decades
Ajay Chacko
Director | Keya Foods International
An eight-week teaching programme unsettles long-held assumptions about rigour, expertise, and what it truly means to help students learn
Uma Narain
Former Founding Dean | School of Liberal Arts, NMIMS University
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
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
Artificial intelligence is superb at optimisation. But transformation still comes from the deviations leaders choose to back.
Debleena Majumdar & Arjo Basu
Why the Omnicom - Interpublic deal reveals a deeper failure of imagination in advertising
Shekar Swamy
MD & Group CEO | R K SWAMY Ltd
Why India’s future power will be shaped less by diplomacy and more by trade architecture
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
A field report on family ownership, continuity, and the craft of building for the long term
Upamanyu Bhattacharya
Professor of Retail | S P Jain Institute of Management & Research
Five shifts shaping how organisations build clarity, continuity and trust in 2025
Indranil Gupta
Founder Director | BrandNEW Associates
Economic collapse, political revolt and great-power rivalry converge in Iran’s most dangerous moment in decades.
Vivek Y. Kelkar
Researcher, Analyst & Columnist on Geo-economics, Geopolitics and Sustainability
