Srinath Sridharan

Dr. Srinath Sridharan is a Corporate Advisor & Independent Director on Corporate Boards. He is the author of ‘Family and Dhanda’.

Sarci-Sense: Golf Is Not a Sport, It’s Also Access

Basis Life

Nothing is decided on the golf course. That would be improper. It is simply made easier long before it reaches a meeting.

Srinath Sridharan

April 11, 2026 at 4:28 AM IST

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Sarci-Sense: Teens Are Parenting Their Parents Now

Basis Life

Teenagers, of today, do not just test parental patience. They expose parental habits, hypocrisies, and old authority that no longer works. Adolescence is the stage when Indian parents are finally forced to unlearn control and relearn respect.

Srinath Sridharan

April 4, 2026 at 8:45 AM IST

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India’s Case for Monetary Sovereignty in a Changing Order

The future of power in finance lies not in currencies alone, but in who controls how they settle.

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April 2, 2026 at 3:10 AM IST

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Board Independence in India is Largely a Managed Illusion

Indian boards have mastered the form of independence without hollowing out its substance. Unless dissent is enabled, accountability stays performative.

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March 30, 2026 at 5:59 AM IST

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The OPD Waiting Room Is A National Anxiety Clinic

Basis Life

This column looks at why the OPD waiting room has become one of the most revealing spaces in the country, where fear, hierarchy, and everyday absurdity all sit together.

Srinath Sridharan

March 28, 2026 at 7:06 AM IST

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When Scale Becomes a Systemic Risk

What looks like strength in politics, markets and energy may actually be a dangerous concentration of risk. Probably why modern systems are becoming more brittle precisely where they appear most powerful, as concentration risk is becoming one of the defining strategic vulnerabilities of our time.

Srinath Sridharan

March 26, 2026 at 8:23 AM IST

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Large NBFCs Cannot Remain Exempt From Leadership Tenure Discipline

If systemically important NBFCs are large enough to matter to financial stability, they are large enough to face governance disciplines closer to banks. India should stop mistaking executive longevity for institutional strength and begin treating succession as a prudential obligation.

Srinath Sridharan

March 23, 2026 at 3:12 AM IST

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Sarci-Sense: Why Does Everyone Over Forty Suddenly Know Everything?

Basis Life

Somewhere in our forties we acquire a curious superpower. We become experts on almost everything.

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March 22, 2026 at 10:35 AM IST

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Family Offices and India’s Capital Shift: Missing the Real Story

India’s family offices are often caricatured as impulsive pools of wealth chasing fashionable bets, but such portrayals miss a more consequential shift.

Srinath Sridharan

March 18, 2026 at 10:29 AM IST

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SarciSense:The Energy Economics of Middle Age

Basis Life

By midlife, time is not the scarce resource. Energy is. The smartest adults are no longer managing calendars. They are managing themselves.

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March 15, 2026 at 6:28 AM IST

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Sarci-Sense: The Great Indian Age Camouflage

Basis Life

Middle age no longer wants to age. It wants to blend in. Somewhere between self-care and silent panic, a generation has decided that growing older must be negotiated quietly.

Srinath Sridharan

March 8, 2026 at 7:20 AM IST

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Sarci-Sense: The Emotional EMI — Paying for Choices We Once Called Freedom

Basis Life

In youth we choose freely. In middle age, the bill arrives quietly. Life rarely collapses overnight. It simply starts collecting instalments.

Srinath Sridharan

March 1, 2026 at 5:47 AM IST

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Mis-selling’s Structural Problem. But, What Next?

The Finance Minister’s warning on mis-selling signals overdue consumer concern. Durable reform will require possible FSDC involvement, incentives, supervision and culture across financial regulators to change and harmonise synergies together.

Srinath Sridharan

February 26, 2026 at 11:23 AM IST

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Sarci-Sense: The Performance We All Do on Weekends

Basis Life

Weekends were meant for rest. Middle age turned them into theatre. We don’t relax anymore, we produce happiness.

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February 22, 2026 at 7:03 AM IST

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Reskilling Alone Won’t Save Us From the AI Shock

Reskilling helps, but the real test lies in building sovereign compute, research depth, and new institutional responses to AI-led change.

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February 18, 2026 at 6:09 AM IST

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Sarci-Sense: Have we trivialised Love into Once-a-Year Event?

Basis Life

Valentine’s Day celebrates love, but long-term love is mostly unseen effort. Do we dare confront our modern delusions about what constitutes love? Especially when love is a daily choice made quietly, long after the flowers fade.

Srinath Sridharan

February 14, 2026 at 6:19 AM IST

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Do Strikes Still Speak to Power?

Strikes were once the clearest grammar of dissent, the sharpest interruption in the flow of authority. In an age of fractured workforces and distracted democracies, the strike remains potent, but only if we understand what it is truly meant to do.

Srinath Sridharan

February 13, 2026 at 4:42 AM IST

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When Everything Works, But You Don’t

Basis Life

Nothing is wrong, which is why everything feels slightly wrong. Middle age is when life becomes manageable, but you have disappeared into an abyss.

Srinath Sridharan

February 8, 2026 at 4:40 AM IST

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RBI’s First Step Timely, But Guardrails Needed to Prevent Gaming of Fraud

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Small-value digital frauds are individually minor, but collectively corrosive to larger public trust. The RBI’s proposed compensation framework is timely, but it must be designed to deter fraud, not become opportunity for others to farm it.

Srinath Sridharan

February 7, 2026 at 4:08 AM IST

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A ‘Done Deal’ Announced, But Where Are the Details?

A trade understanding between Washington and New Delhi has been announced with confidence abroad and restraint at home. Does this restraint reflect a forced agreement, or the discipline of a state that understands the costs of premature commitment?

Srinath Sridharan

February 3, 2026 at 6:10 AM IST

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