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...
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...
For the last three years, the world has been asking one question: Will AI take our jobs? Software engineers are worried. Customer support employees are worried. Writers, designers, accountants, analysts and managers are worried. Every new round of corporate layoffs makes the fear stronger. But something unexpected is now happening....
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...
A country can print more money. A bank can be rescued. A company can restructure its debt. A billionaire can lose everything and start again. But what happens when a civilisation spends water that nature can no longer replace? In January 2026, a United Nations University report introduced the world...
There is a place on Earth where the temperature is rising, the ice is disappearing, new trade routes are emerging, trillions of dollars in resources are attracting attention—and military powers are quietly preparing for confrontation. It is not Ukraine. It is not Gaza. It is not Taiwan. It is the...
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...
Why Earning ₹2 Lakh a Month May Soon Feel Like Poverty “The greatest illusion of the 21st century is not that people have become poorer. It is that earning more automatically means living better.” Introduction: A Strange Reality A generation ago, earning a good salary was considered the finish line....
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...
