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When Business Schools Teach the Wrong Kind of Business
The piece examines how contemporary business and management schools, shaped by the corporate governance models of early 20th-century America, overlook the realities of family-controlled enterprises that dominate much of the global economy. It draws on examples from India and abroad to make the case for embedding family business studies into the core MBA curriculum, preparing future leaders for the complexities of kinship, succession, and intergenerational stewardship.
Dr. Anurag Shukla
10 min read
The Vanishing Names of Rats
What we lose when children forget how to name the world
Dr. Anurag Shukla
9 min read
Dharma Today
The Curator and the Clerk - Why Indian Public Policy Needs to Rethink Culture
The piece reflects on the gap between how culture is lived and how it is administered, drawing on insights from anthropology, public policy, and personal fieldwork. It builds on thinkers like Akhil Gupta, James Ferguson, Ashis Nandy, Sudipta Kaviraj, and Partha Chatterjee to argue for a more dynamic, responsive, and culturally intelligent approach to policy making.
Dr. Anurag Shukla
7 min read
Culture And Policy
Scenes from a Village That Never Was
From the binaries of post-Independence cinema to the nihilism of contemporary crime dramas, and from the everyday realism of Phulera to its recent slippage into self-conscious performance, the article considers how and why the village continues to be reimagined in TV shows/movies.
Dr. Anurag Shukla
11 min read
Culture And Policy
Before the River, After the Flood - Rethinking India’s Water Imaginaries
A reflective piece that traces how our developmental gaze in India has long imagined the river as a fixed line to be mapped, managed, and monumentalized while ignoring the more intimate, seasonal logic of wetness that has traditionally shaped our relationship with water.
Dr. Anurag Shukla
16 min read
Culture And Policy
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