What if retirement is not the end of your working life, but the beginning of the life you always wanted to live? For most people, turning 50 means thinking about retirement, financial security, health insurance, and spending more time with family. For me, it means something different. It means preparing...
An entrepreneur’s autobiography — 2002 onwards Prologue: I Was Never Short of Ideas. I Had to Learn the Power of Focus. If I look back at my life and career, one thing becomes clear: I was never someone who wanted to follow the usual path. While many people were concentrating...
On 8 October 2026, US Vice President JD Vance stood before reporters and attacked the H-1B visa system. He said the program has become full of fraud over several years, probably decades. Indian workers are the largest group on this visa, so this is our story too. What happened The...
On September 10, 2025, Oracle’s stock jumped 36 percent in a single day. It was one of the biggest one-day gains ever recorded for a company that large. Larry Ellison, already one of the richest men alive, briefly passed Elon Musk to become the richest man on the planet. Oracle’s...
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...
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...
AI doesn’t arrive with robots marching through the streets. It arrives quietly—one software update, one automation tool, one AI assistant, one redesigned workflow at a time. One day, your company doesn’t fire 1,000 people. It simply doesn’t hire the next 1,000. And that may be the more uncomfortable future. For...
We are taught a simple formula from childhood: Study well → get good marks → get a good job → earn a good salary → live a successful life. But there is another question nobody asks often enough: What if the child who was never interested in following that formula...
A patient walks into a corporate hospital with a medical problem. Somewhere inside the building, another number may begin moving: Revenue. That is the uncomfortable reality modern healthcare must confront. A surgeon earning ₹1 crore a year looks like the ultimate success story. A prestigious hospital. A huge salary. Expensive...
There is a question that millions of India’s salaried and self-employed middle class should be asking: “If I can be responsible enough to pay taxes to the government for 20 or 30 years, why is the government not responsible enough to protect me when I fall?” Take Bengaluru. A software...
