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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...
We spend an astonishing amount of our lives trying to look successful. A bigger house. A better car. I A higher designation. A more impressive salary. A child who gets into a prestigious school. A holiday that looks perfect on Instagram. And somewhere between chasing all of this, we quietly...
Human beings have achieved extraordinary things. We have reached the Moon, connected billions of people through technology, built companies worth billions, and created machines that can think, calculate and communicate. But there is one thing we still struggle to control: our ego. The ego inside us has become so powerful...
There is a financial calculation most Indian parents never make. We calculate the home loan EMI. We calculate the car EMI. We calculate the monthly grocery bill. But we rarely calculate the total cost of raising a child from kindergarten to college. And when we finally do, the number can...
What if some of the things we teach children to make them “good” are actually making them less safe, less curious and less capable? Every parent wants the same thing. A confident child. A curious child. A responsible child. A child who can face the world without constantly needing someone...
