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...
One question we often forget to ask before trusting someone is simple: Do they genuinely respect people, or do they only value people when they are useful to them? A person who repeatedly cheats, betrays, manipulates, or abandons others should not be assumed to become loyal simply because you are...
In D2C fashion, everyone sees the photographs. The model. The product. The packaging. The Instagram reels. The website. The influencer wearing it. Almost nobody sees the work holding the business together. And that is where many new fashion entrepreneurs get their first shock. Fashion Is Not Just About Fashion Launching...
There is one truth that can destroy a lot of unnecessary stress: You are not that important. Neither am I. The world existed before us. It will continue after us. One day, someone else will live in our house, sit in our chair, run our business, spend our money and...
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...
Housing sales in India’s biggest cities fell 6 percent in the April-June quarter of 2026. Anarock’s numbers show about 90,700 homes sold, down from 96,285 a year earlier. Compare this to the quarter before, and the drop is sharper: 11 percent. Proptiger’s own count, across eight cities, tells the same...
The strange, beautiful psychology of the long-distance biker A sensible person would ask a very simple question. “Why?” Why would someone spend ₹15 lakhs, ₹20 lakhs, ₹25 lakhs, 50 lakhs—or even more—on a motorcycle? For that money, they could buy a perfectly comfortable car. In many cases, they could buy...
Human beings have achieved extraordinary things. We have reached the Moon, connected billions of people through technology, built companies worth billions, and created machines that can think, calculate and communicate. But there is one thing we still struggle to control: our ego. The ego inside us has become so powerful...
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...
