Srinath Sridharan
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Who Will Care When Women Work? That Is The Wrong Question
The debate on women and work becomes strangely patronising when even our most enlightened elites assume that care is a woman's natural duty.
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The #NextGen Who Has Never Failed
Inherited advantage can create a blind spot when the NextGen has had too little exposure to consequence. Succession becomes stronger when successors earn responsibility before they inherit consequential authority.
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When NextGen Doesn't Need To Work, Then What?
For earlier generations, succession meant finding someone capable of carrying the family business forward. For increasingly wealthy business families, a harder question is emerging: how do you prepare the next generation for responsibility and purpose when they no longer need the business, or even a job, to live well?
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Every Family Business Has A Memory
A family business passes down more than shares, wealth and responsibility. It also carries old loyalties, childhood roles, sacrifices, disappointments and unfinished arguments, often shaping decisions long after the people and events that created them have disappeared.
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Why India's Next Growth Story Begins With Young Indians
India's demographic dividend has become a confidence dividend. Preserving it may prove as important as adopting artificial intelligence.
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The Invisible Contract Between Promoters And Their Children
The most consequential agreement in a business family is rarely discussed. Long before succession becomes a boardroom decision, parents and children begin negotiating expectations that shape leadership, identity and the future of the enterprise.
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The Best Successor Isn't You
Many business leaders unconsciously search for younger versions of themselves. Enduring institutions do the opposite - they mentor successors with different strengths, different leadership styles and the confidence to lead a different future.
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'Lack Of Communication' Is Business Families' Most Expensive Risk
Many business families are damaged not by conflict, but by conversations that never take place. Enduring enterprises are sustained not merely by shared ownership, but by the courage to address difficult truths before silence turns them into crises.
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Successors Inherit Expectations, Not Just Enterprises
Popular narratives often reduce the NextGen to questions of privilege and entitlement. Yet many successors face the far more demanding challenge of building legitimacy while carrying expectations shaped by previous generations and realities unique to their own times.
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The Next Test For Family Businesses: Reinvention
For many Indian business families, the greatest challenge is no longer succession alone, but existential relevance. Ability to sustain and scale increasingly demands their courage to evolve the business while preserving the family values that made it endure.
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Can India Build A More Enduring Capitalism?
As India's markets deepen and wealth creation accelerates, the country faces a larger question than how much capital it can create. The more consequential question is what kind of capitalism it seeks to build, and whether it can nurture institutions capable of enduring beyond generations and market cycles.
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Why Entitlement Threatens Business Family Continuity
As Indian family enterprises prepare for generational transitions, continuity increasingly depends on how effectively they cultivate stewardship and accountability in future leaders. The families that endure are often those willing to address difficult behavioural realities before they become business risks.
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The Attention-To-Execution Crisis Inside Business Families
Many Indian business families still own their enterprises, but fewer are deeply immersed in them. As attention fragments across ventures, visibility and lifestyles, the larger risk is not loss of control, but dilution of stewardship.
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Labour Transition To Broader Adoption Base: Five Suggestions For AI Governance, Economic Group
Long-term competitiveness will depend not only on compute infrastructure and regulation, but also on workforce readiness, federal coordination and widespread adoption of AI across the real economy.
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How India's Vegetarian Food-Economy Lost Regional Imagination
From airport menus to restaurant chains, Indian vegetarian cuisine is increasingly collapsing into repetitive paneer-heavy sameness despite the country's extraordinary diversity of grains, greens and regional traditions; in an age of branded aspiration and scalable food economics.
