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...
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...
Think about a bank clerk in Chennai in 1985. One income. A wife who managed the home. Two or three children. Rent paid, school fees paid, groceries bought, and still, money left over at the end of the month. That family bought gold during festivals. They built a small house...
For most of my life, I heard the same warning from every doctor, every health magazine, every worried aunty: don’t eat the egg yolk. It has bad cholesterol. Eat only the egg white if you want a healthy heart. This advice felt like a fixed rule, almost like a law...
There is a growing movement across the world that celebrates living alone. Social media glorifies independence. Many people delay marriage, avoid relationships, or decide never to have children. Others experience divorce and consciously choose to remain single for the rest of their lives. For many, it feels like freedom. Until...
The world is witnessing one of the greatest talent wars in modern history. Not for movie stars. Not for athletes. Not even for CEOs. This war is for Artificial Intelligence engineers and researchers. In recent years, companies like Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and others have been competing fiercely to...
You did not choose where you were born. You did not choose your parents, your country, your first language, or whether your childhood home had books or hunger in it. This is the luck that arrives before you can even understand what luck means. Call it birth luck. Some are...
Most Indians treat retirement like a finish line. You work for thirty years, you cross the line, and then you sit down. You rest. You wait. That is the picture in most Indian homes. Parents tell their children, “Once I retire, I will just relax.” Grandparents say the same thing...
There is a moment familiar to almost every ambitious person. You are sitting inside an office, attending a meeting that probably could have been an email, while somewhere inside your head another meeting is happening. “Is this what I want to do for the next 20 years?” Then you open...
At my age, I sometimes look at the startup world and wonder whether we have made entrepreneurship look far easier than it really is. Open social media and you will see young founders raising millions of dollars, companies becoming unicorns, billion-dollar valuations, luxury cars and stories about people becoming millionaires...
