Your salary may not be too small. Your lifestyle may simply be too expensive. This is the uncomfortable truth nobody wants to hear. The Indian middle class works hard, earns more, gets promotions—and somehow remains financially stressed. Why? Because somewhere along the way, luxuries were renamed necessities. A ₹20 lakh...
You worked for 40 years. You finally retire. You buy the motorhome you always dreamed about. Twelve months later, you are trying to sell it. That story is becoming familiar in Abroad like in US, Canada etc. But before we accept claims such as “most of retirees regret buying an...
We spend our entire lives preparing for old age. We save money. Buy a house. Build investments. Take care of our children. Plan for retirement. But there is one thing most people forget to prepare for: The people they will allow into their lives when they are old. At 60,...
We spend most of our lives building relationships. Friends, colleagues, relatives, neighbours, professional contacts, social-media followers — the list keeps growing. We often mistake the size of our social circle for the strength of our support system. But age has a brutal way of exposing that illusion. As a person...
What if the person who makes you angriest is not necessarily the person destroying your peace? What if that person is revealing exactly where you have no peace? Paramahansa Yogananda saw marriage very differently from today’s swipe-left, swipe-right culture. He described marriage as a “laboratory” where selfishness, bad temper and...
A patient walks into a corporate hospital with a medical problem. Somewhere inside the building, another number may begin moving: Revenue. That is the uncomfortable reality modern healthcare must confront. A surgeon earning ₹1 crore a year looks like the ultimate success story. A prestigious hospital. A huge salary. Expensive...
There is a profound difference between offering spiritual comfort and making claims about physical reality. One can believe in meditation. One can seek spiritual guidance. One can undertake a difficult pilgrimage in search of meaning. But when a spiritual leader tells followers something as absolute as “Everyone will come back....
India’s Startup Culture Has Created a Dangerous New Species: The Celebrity Founder Let us say something that many people inside India’s startup ecosystem will never say openly. Too many founders are becoming famous before they become successful. And even worse— some are becoming addicted to being famous. They raise one...
Business is not a motivational seminar. It is not about posting success quotes, shaking hands at networking events, drinking at parties with “important people,” or looking successful from the outside. Business is a battlefield of decisions. Every day, you are deciding where to put your money, your time, your attention,...
What if some of the things we teach children to make them “good” are actually making them less safe, less curious and less capable? Every parent wants the same thing. A confident child. A curious child. A responsible child. A child who can face the world without constantly needing someone...
