For an office built on being boring, neutral, and procedural, India’s Election Commission has rarely made this much noise. Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar is facing a nationwide demand for his resignation, an opposition move to impeach him, and a family controversy that has spilled into the Supreme Court. Whatever...
Look up tonight. Every star you see is old light. Some of it left its source before the dinosaurs existed. You are not seeing the universe as it is. You are seeing its ghosts. That single fact changes everything about how we should think about space. How humans started looking...
Most people network like beggars. They show up wanting something, and powerful people can smell it in seconds. The ones who actually break into rooms they weren’t born into do something different — they make themselves useful before they make themselves known. Andrew Carnegie understood this before he had a...
A government hospital advertised five doctor posts last month. Over a hundred MBBS graduates showed up outside the building, waiting for a chance that barely one in twenty would get. Ten years ago, this scene would have shocked people. Today, it barely makes news. This is the quiet, uncomfortable truth...
You did not choose your mother. You did not choose your father. You did not choose the country, the city, the language, or the religion you opened your eyes into. Before you could think, decide, or agree to anything, your entire starting point in life was already fixed. This is...
There is a strange dream sitting quietly inside the minds of millions of middle-class professionals. “One day I want to leave my job and start something of my own.” They say it after another horrible commute. They say it after another pointless meeting. They say it when their manager sends...
A Different Way of Buying Handloom — Built Around the Customer, Not Excess Inventory Handlooom.com, a brand of DMZ International Imports & Exports Pvt. Ltd. and associated with the Save Handloom Foundation, operates on a different business model from conventional fashion and handloom retailers. We do not believe that handloom...
Your Teammates Are Not Your Friends Every morning, lakhs of Indians enter office buildings with a smile. By evening, many leave tired, and not only from work. They are tired from watching, guessing and protecting themselves. I have spent many years in corporate jobs. I have seen how politics works...
Some men don’t hate people. They simply prefer the world inside their own head. While others look forward to parties, crowded restaurants, weekend trips, weddings and social gatherings, there is another kind of man who feels most comfortable when the door is closed, the phone is silent and nobody needs...
One day, someone else may spend the money you spent your entire life saving. Your spouse. Your children. Your relatives. Perhaps someone you barely know. And you may never get to enjoy much of what you sacrificed your life to accumulate. So here’s the uncomfortable question: What if saving money...
