The Journal Entry #018 : Where Do IT Professionals Disappear After 45? 99% of People Start Preparing for Their Second Career Too Late

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...

The Journal Entry #017 : AI Is Cheap Today Because Someone Else Is Paying the Bill

Every day, millions of us open ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and Perplexity. We ask questions, write emails, generate images, analyse documents, create software and prepare business plans. Most of us never think about what happens after we press Enter. We see a simple text box. Behind it is one of...

The Journal Entry #015 : The war that begins by switching off the lights

Imagine waking up at 2:17 in the morning. There is no electricity. Your phone has a signal, but the internet is not working. WhatsApp messages are not moving. Banking systems are failing. ATMs are offline. Airports are confused. Cloud applications cannot connect. Traffic signals are dead. Hospitals have switched to...

Journal #014 : EUROPE IS BURNING. BUT THE MOST FRIGHTENING QUESTION IS: WHAT IF THIS IS THE NEW NORMAL?

For decades, Europe was imagined as the continent of mild summers, green forests, Mediterranean holidays and cities designed more for surviving winter than extreme heat. That image is beginning to crack. Across parts of Europe, temperatures have climbed towards and beyond 40°C. France and Spain have reported more than 2,000...

Journal Entry #012 : Doing Good Isn’t Free: The Financial Reality Behind Every Public Charitable Trust in India

Every day we hear about charities receiving donations from individuals, support from companies through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and even grants from international organisations. We admire the schools they build, the hospitals they support, the lives they transform, and the communities they uplift. Yet very few people ever stop to...