Politics often changes people. Before elections, leaders speak the language of sacrifice. After elections, many begin speaking the language of privilege. Bigger convoys, larger official residences, endless security, roadblocks, and VIP treatment slowly become symbols of power. That is why the early months of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph...
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...
A short sentence from a retired judge has started a big argument. Former Supreme Court judge Justice Madan B. Lokur said that if a passport is treated as nothing more than a travel paper, it becomes no better than a bus ticket. That line has spread across news channels and...
A famous brand can disappear. Your money can disappear with it. “If a company is famous, it must be safe.” Millions of Indian investors believed this. They invested in companies that dominated television advertisements, cricket sponsorships, airports, education, telecom, aviation and banking. Some were worth billions. Some were India’s largest...
Millions of devotees across India donate to temples believing that every rupee, every gold ornament, every silver coin, and every offering reaches the deity and serves a sacred purpose. For many, donating at a temple is not merely charity—it is an act of devotion. That is why the recent allegations...
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...
At 49, I sometimes wonder how many people of my generation actually chose their own careers—and how many simply entered the careers chosen for them. I have an MCA degree and have spent many years working in IT. But if I am asked a simple question— “At the age of...
Walk into a large IT company in India. Look around the floor. You will see hundreds of people in their twenties. Plenty in their early thirties. Team leads and managers in their late thirties and early forties. Then ask a simple question: Where are all the 48-year-old software engineers? Where...
