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A few months ago, I wrote about a strange split in the job market. Some AI-heavy companies were cutting thousands of roles. Others were growing headcount because of AI. Both were true at once, and I said the way to survive was to climb from execution to judgment to ownership....
Every dairy business in India seems to chase the same thing: getting fresh milk into homes every morning. It looks like the obvious product. It is the first thing people associate with the word “dairy.” But fresh liquid milk is also one of the worst businesses to be in, and...
There is a question that millions of India’s salaried and self-employed middle class should be asking: “If I can be responsible enough to pay taxes to the government for 20 or 30 years, why is the government not responsible enough to protect me when I fall?” Take Bengaluru. A software...
We are taught from childhood that democracy is the best form of government. People vote, governments are elected, leaders are changed, and power is supposed to remain with the people. But today, an uncomfortable question is emerging across the world: What happens when people start losing faith in democracy because...
When a new brand launches, the biggest challenge is not always creating a great product. It is getting people to trust the brand enough to buy it. You may have a beautiful website, excellent products and a compelling story. But if nobody knows your brand, spending heavily on Meta or...
We spend most of our time worrying about wars, elections, and stock markets. But there is a quieter crisis growing under our feet, and it will touch every single person on earth. That crisis is drinking water. Not oil, not gold, not even electricity. Plain, clean drinking water. This is...
Old Indian texts warn us about a dangerous kind of person: someone who thinks he is smarter than everyone else. This person talks fast, acts proud, and looks down on others. Our ancestors met such people too. They wrote down ways to deal with them. These lessons still work today,...
You walk every day. You eat roughly the same food you always did. Yet somewhere around 47 or 48, the annual health checkup starts reading like a warning letter. Eyes struggle to read the phone. Reading glasses appear. Driving at night feels harder. The blood sugar report has that word...
Walk into any movie hall in India today and you will see it. Before the film starts, a government warning fills the screen. A voice says smoking kills. It shows a patient in a hospital bed. It tells you tobacco causes cancer. If someone lights a cigarette on screen later,...
Most working professionals in India carry one health insurance policy: the one their employer gives them. It feels like enough. The premium is free, the cover looks decent on paper, and nobody thinks about it again until there is a hospital bill in front of them. This comfort is a...
