Ashish Kumar, the co-founder of Fundamentum Partnership, has just unveiled F2A (Fundamentum Frontier Advisors) — a massive ₹2,000 crore fund dedicated entirely to AI and deeptech startups. And as an anchor investor, he's brought in none other than Nandan Nilekani, the Infosys co-founder and one of India's most respected tech minds.
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India’s OTT boom is creating larger conversations around audience behavior, storytelling and why the definition of a successful film is rapidly changing.
Indian startup funding is rebounding toward $4 billion, but founders and investors are navigating a very different ecosystem than the one that existed before the slowdown.
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Kerala’s election result ended India’s last Left-led government, opening larger conversations around development models, changing voter priorities and the future of political identity.
India’s upcoming census is becoming more than a demographic exercise, opening broader conversations around caste, representation and how societies understand change.
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On December 8, 2025, the first day of the Telangana Rising Global Summit, a press release landed in the inboxes of journalists across the country that momentarily rewrote the ceiling of what a Bollywood star could build. Salman Khan Ventures Private Limited—the business arm of the actor whose films have grossed over ₹5,000 crore at the Indian box office and whose net worth is estimated at ₹3,225 crore—had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Telangana government. The announcement was staggering in its scale: a ₹10,000 crore integrated township and world-class film studio, spread across 500 acres in the proposed Bharat Future City on the outskirts of Hyderabad. It was, by a factor of roughly ten, the largest single real estate bet ever announced by an Indian film personality, and it promised to transform not just the actor's business empire but the geography of India's creative economy.
Young professionals across India are increasingly shifting priorities toward financial freedom, flexible lifestyles and investments beyond traditional assets.