India’s Startup Culture Has Created a Dangerous New Species: The Celebrity Founder Let us say something that many people inside India’s startup ecosystem will never say openly. Too many founders are becoming famous before they become successful. And even worse— some are becoming addicted to being famous. They raise one...
India likes to talk about its demographic dividend. The world’s youngest large country, a median age of 28, a workforce that will keep growing while China and the West grow old. It is a good story. But a new NITI Aayog report just put a number on the other side...
India is celebrating the arrival of the AI revolution. Google, Amazon, Meta and other global technology giants are pouring billions into data centres. Governments proudly announce investment figures. Politicians talk about jobs. Headlines speak of India becoming the next global technology powerhouse. On paper, it sounds like progress. But India...
Business is not a motivational seminar. It is not about posting success quotes, shaking hands at networking events, drinking at parties with “important people,” or looking successful from the outside. Business is a battlefield of decisions. Every day, you are deciding where to put your money, your time, your attention,...
Housing sales in India’s biggest cities fell 6 percent in the April-June quarter of 2026. Anarock’s numbers show about 90,700 homes sold, down from 96,285 a year earlier. Compare this to the quarter before, and the drop is sharper: 11 percent. Proptiger’s own count, across eight cities, tells the same...
The strange, beautiful psychology of the long-distance biker A sensible person would ask a very simple question. “Why?” Why would someone spend ₹15 lakhs, ₹20 lakhs, ₹25 lakhs, 50 lakhs—or even more—on a motorcycle? For that money, they could buy a perfectly comfortable car. In many cases, they could buy...
Every year, millions of students walk out of Indian colleges with a degree in their hands. Engineering degrees. MBA degrees. Commerce degrees. Science degrees. Computer science degrees. They have attended lectures, written examinations, submitted assignments and memorized enough information to survive years of academic evaluation. Then they enter the real...
For generations, the Indian dream was remarkably predictable. Study. Get a good job. Buy a house. Buy a car. Get married. Raise children. Retire. And eventually, spend most of your time inside the house you worked your entire life to buy. We were taught that success meant becoming more settled....
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...
