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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

The Parenting Pause

In Sikkim, a French friend’s confusion about Indian parenting set off a larger meditation on parenting, childhood, and the quiet wisdom we’ve forgotten.

Dr. Anurag Shukla 8 min read

Dharma Today

Beyond the Wall - Reimagining Art, Knowledge, and the Epistemic Order

An article reflecting on James Stephanoff’s An Assemblage of Works of Art. The piece explores how museum displays and aesthetic arrangements are deeply implicated in the politics of representation, meaning-making, and epistemic control.

Dr. Anurag Shukla 7 min read

Dharma Today

Reclaiming the Forest - Against the Modernist Myth of Environmentalism in India

The piece offers a civilizational critique of Ramachandra Guha’s recent work Speaking with Nature. It attempts to foreground indigenous, Vaidika, and dhārmika perspectives on environmental ethics as lived ontology deeply embedded in our texts, practices, and lifeworlds rather than modern ideology.

Dr. Anurag Shukla 12 min read

Culture And Policy

Can Machines Teach What They Cannot Feel? Rethinking AI and the Human in Indian Education

Part 2 in a series on AI and education, taking a deeper look at what is often overlooked when AI systems are introduced into learning spaces, particularly in India. A reflection on five aspects of education that AI cannot meaningfully replicate - consciousness and emotion, social interaction, adaptation and learning, physical presence, and decision-making.

Dr. Anurag Shukla 14 min read

Culture And Policy

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Dr. Anurag Shukla

When Business Schools Teach the Wrong Kind of Business

The Vanishing Names of Rats

The Curator and the Clerk - Why Indian Public Policy Needs to Rethink Culture

Scenes from a Village That Never Was

Before the River, After the Flood - Rethinking India’s Water Imaginaries

The Parenting Pause

Beyond the Wall - Reimagining Art, Knowledge, and the Epistemic Order

Reclaiming the Forest - Against the Modernist Myth of Environmentalism in India

Can Machines Teach What They Cannot Feel? Rethinking AI and the Human in Indian Education