Most businesses do not die because the product is bad. They die because the owner needs the sale too much. The customer can feel it, and the customer uses it. These six rules are not suggestions. Break one, and you pay for it. Rule 1: Never send a proposal to...
An ethical hacker and a criminal hacker often know the same tools. The difference is permission. One has written approval, reports every weakness found, and helps fix it. The other takes what he finds and sells it. Your data is the product in between. Chances are some of it is...
There is a brutally simple truth in business: A great product nobody knows about is still a product nobody buys. That doesn’t mean being arrogant. It means refusing to let silence become the reason your dream fails. Every entrepreneur creates something emotionally personal. It becomes their baby. They spend months—or...
For decades, Indian urban households have depended on a familiar system: a maid arrives in the morning, cleans the house, washes vessels, perhaps does some laundry, and leaves. A cook comes once or twice a day, prepares meals and goes home. That model is now beginning to break. The reason...
On Gandhi Jayanti, we remember the man who taught India that freedom could begin with something as simple as a thread. Today, October 2, we remember Mahatma Gandhi as the leader of India’s freedom struggle, the man of non-violence and Satyagraha. But there is another Gandhi we should remember. The...
Ask a 17-year-old in India about Gandhi. You will probably get three things: a face on a currency note, a clip about the Salt March, and a meme about him. This is how Gen Z and Gen Alpha meet him. He arrives in pieces, between reels and exam notes. Do...
Many of us grow up in India with one simple belief: if you are not working, you are wasting time. So when we cannot start a task, we blame ourselves and say, “I am lazy.” That may be the wrong conclusion. Laziness and mental exhaustion look the same from outside....
For many years, Indian athletics fans waited at the Asian Games. Then, on the last evening of track events in Nagoya, four women ended the wait. The record that fell On Monday, Vithya Ramraj ran the 400m hurdles in 54.75 seconds. It was a personal best and a new national...
On September 29, 2026, Donald Trump signed an order called “Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence.” It tells the executive branch to use “Super Intelligence” and “SI” instead of “Artificial Intelligence” and “AI.” Agencies were also told to stop acknowledging the old terms. What does it mean? Legally, very little...
Most startups don’t get killed by competitors. They get killed in the boardroom. Not by a competitor launching a better product. Not by a recession. Not even because they ran out of money. Many startups begin dying much earlier—when founders stop trusting each other, egos become bigger than the business,...
