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The Patient Capital Paradox: Sarjeet Yadav on Redefining Venture Capital for Sovereignty
Investors & Catalysts

The Patient Capital Paradox: Sarjeet Yadav on Redefining Venture Capital for Sovereignty

Colonel (Retd.) Sarjeet Yadav, a decorated combat veteran turned defense tech investor, views risk not as the enemy of safety but as an opportunity that must be deliberately designed and mitigated—lessons forged in counterinsurgency and now applied to strategic investing. He backs only founders who deeply understand the soldier-user, build true sovereign capability (beyond mere assembly), and practice “active patience” through rigorous milestones, while rejecting consumer-style timelines that dilute deep-tech defense products. In an incomplete ecosystem, his core discipline remains “holding ground”: structured endurance with purpose, because India’s technological sovereignty will be earned through decades of credibility, not quarters of hype.

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The Inheritance of Duty: Namrata Sethia on Reinventing School Leadership
Education Leadership

The Inheritance of Duty: Namrata Sethia on Reinventing School Leadership

Namrata Sethia chose classrooms over certainty, building Vardhman into a school where legacy, accessibility, and global readiness work together rather than compete. Her leadership blends rigor with empathy reinvesting every surplus into teachers, infrastructure, and systems that give students real agency, resilience, and cultural grounding. In her hands, education becomes both duty and design, proving that strong schools can honour tradition while preparing children to thrive anywhere in the world.

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People at the Center: Redefining Leadership Through Humanity
Corporate Visionaries

People at the Center: Redefining Leadership Through Humanity

Dr. Vishwanand Pattar champions a form of leadership rooted not in authority, but in humanity where trust, emotional intelligence, and authenticity become the true engines of performance. His work shows that cultures thrive when leaders create safety, foster belonging, and turn values into lived experiences rather than policies. In an age of AI and rapid change, his philosophy is a reminder that enduring organisations are built on care, clarity, and the courage to lead as humans first.

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The Reinventor's Discipline: Radhika Shukla on Building Institutions That Endure
Corporate Visionaries

The Reinventor's Discipline: Radhika Shukla on Building Institutions That Endure

Radhika Shukla has built a career on disciplined reinvention choosing technology over safety, planning over chaos, and endurance over noise. Her philosophy turns structure into speed, micro-precision into advantage, and detachment into a strategic muscle that renews teams and products. In leading Times Internet’s AI Academy, she proves that trust, clarity, and problem-solving not hype are what truly prepare people and countries for the AI future.

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The Invisible Architectures of Leadership: Ankita Khandelwal on Resilience, Reinvention, and the Future of Steel
Founders & Innovators

The Invisible Architectures of Leadership: Ankita Khandelwal on Resilience, Reinvention, and the Future of Steel

Ankita Khandelwal blends the urgency of finance with the endurance of steel, turning a legacy business into a platform for reinvention rather than inheritance. Her leadership reframes resilience as redesign, technology as leverage, and steel as a strategic barometer of national strength. With ethics as structure and adaptation as discipline, she shows that real leadership like steel works quietly, strengthens everything around it, and endures far beyond visibility.

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Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram: Subramanian Chidambaran's Global Grammar of Strategy
Corporate Visionaries

Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram: Subramanian Chidambaran's Global Grammar of Strategy

Subramanian Chidambaran blends shop-floor realism, boardroom strategy, and Indic philosophy into a uniquely coherent leadership lens. He treats agility, innovation, and decarbonization not as buzzwords but as civilizational responsibilities rooted in truth, benefit, and beauty. For him, strategy is applied wisdom, a way to build institutions that endure, not just compete.

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The Art, Science, and Soul of Learning Inside Pratima's Four-Decade Journey
Education Leadership

The Art, Science, and Soul of Learning Inside Pratima's Four-Decade Journey

Pratima’s journey from an untrained teacher to CEO is a story of leadership built through humility, conviction, and constant reinvention. She believes schools, like all institutions, thrive when leaders stay centered, people carry the culture, and adaptation becomes a way of life. Her Living School philosophy reminds us that passion, trust, and creativity are not extras, but the real infrastructure of any thriving system.

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Vinita Surana: The Discipline of Becoming
Investors & Catalysts

Vinita Surana: The Discipline of Becoming

Vinita Surana’s journey is a story of earning legitimacy, not inheriting it. She entered her family’s business as the first woman at the table, proved herself by reviving a discarded carbon credit deal, and learned that legacy is raw material to be shaped through persistence and competence. Her leadership blends discipline, humility, and reinvention, professionalizing systems, anchoring decisions in data, and treating energy as a core asset. As an investor and now founder of VinSpace, she operates with conviction, clarity, and a long-term lens, showing how successors, founders, and leaders can turn inherited structures into platforms for authentic, sustainable impact.

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Profit Keeps the Lights On. Trust Keeps the Brand Alive: Naveen Bhadada's CFO Playbook
Corporate Visionaries

Profit Keeps the Lights On. Trust Keeps the Brand Alive: Naveen Bhadada's CFO Playbook

Naveen Bhadada redefines the CFO as a compass, not a calculator, a leader who orients the institution toward long-term trust, clarity, and disciplined innovation. His career across Colgate, Pepsi, Pidilite, L’Oréal, and now SUGAR shows how finance becomes strategic only when it walks the market, embraces pressure, and enables possibility instead of policing it. For Naveen, profit keeps the lights on, but trust keeps the institution alive and the best finance leaders protect both.

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Leading from Center: Namita Kutty's Call to Redesign Leadership from the Inside Out
Mentors & Coaches

Leading from Center: Namita Kutty's Call to Redesign Leadership from the Inside Out

Namita Kutty’s philosophy centers on shifting from performing leadership to leading from inner steadiness. After thriving across global roles yet feeling fragmented within, she developed what she calls center-led leadership — presence over pressure, coherence over performance. Blending cultural intelligence with neuroscience, she teaches that trust is felt before it’s judged and that the strongest leaders create safety through who they are, not what they say. Her work helps people overcome “identity lag,” grow from the inside out, and build environments where others rise. Her message is simple: clarity beats speed, presence beats performance, and real leadership begins with how centered you are when you enter the room.

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Beyond Compliance: How Amitabh Lal Das Builds Institutions That Last IndiSight Editorial
Corporate Visionaries

Beyond Compliance: How Amitabh Lal Das Builds Institutions That Last IndiSight Editorial

Amitabh Lal Das argues that law isn’t a brake on business, it’s the architecture that prevents collapse and accelerates trust. His three-decade career across Yahoo, Max Life, Bajaj Auto, and Hyundai shows how embedding legal foresight early can speed approvals, reduce conflict, and strengthen governance across borders. He turns compliance into culture, simplifies systems for real-world use, and designs frameworks that outlast leaders. In an ecosystem shaken by governance failures, his philosophy is clear: resilience comes not from charisma or shortcuts, but from systems built on clarity, ethics, and institutional will.

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