There is a strange phase in the life of many entrepreneurs. By day, they help build someone else’s company. By night, they quietly build their own. They attend meetings. Deliver targets. Answer emails. Help their employer grow. Then, after everyone goes home, a different shift begins. Their shift. This is...
The United States just crossed a number too large for most people to picture. Its national debt has passed $40 trillion. That works out to about $117,000 for every American, man, woman, and child. The debt has doubled in just ten years. And the pace is not slowing down. The...
We spend an astonishing amount of our lives trying to look successful. A bigger house. A better car. I A higher designation. A more impressive salary. A child who gets into a prestigious school. A holiday that looks perfect on Instagram. And somewhere between chasing all of this, we quietly...
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 financial calculation most Indian parents never make. We calculate the home loan EMI. We calculate the car EMI. We calculate the monthly grocery bill. But we rarely calculate the total cost of raising a child from kindergarten to college. And when we finally do, the number can...
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...
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...
