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...
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...
