There is a profound difference between offering spiritual comfort and making claims about physical reality. One can believe in meditation. One can seek spiritual guidance. One can undertake a difficult pilgrimage in search of meaning. But when a spiritual leader tells followers something as absolute as “Everyone will come back....
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...
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,...
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...
Every dairy business in India seems to chase the same thing: getting fresh milk into homes every morning. It looks like the obvious product. It is the first thing people associate with the word “dairy.” But fresh liquid milk is also one of the worst businesses to be in, and...
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...
We spend most of our time worrying about wars, elections, and stock markets. But there is a quieter crisis growing under our feet, and it will touch every single person on earth. That crisis is drinking water. Not oil, not gold, not even electricity. Plain, clean drinking water. This is...
You walk every day. You eat roughly the same food you always did. Yet somewhere around 47 or 48, the annual health checkup starts reading like a warning letter. Eyes struggle to read the phone. Reading glasses appear. Driving at night feels harder. The blood sugar report has that word...
Walk into any movie hall in India today and you will see it. Before the film starts, a government warning fills the screen. A voice says smoking kills. It shows a patient in a hospital bed. It tells you tobacco causes cancer. If someone lights a cigarette on screen later,...
Most working professionals in India carry one health insurance policy: the one their employer gives them. It feels like enough. The premium is free, the cover looks decent on paper, and nobody thinks about it again until there is a hospital bill in front of them. This comfort is a...
