Are you really the creator of your destiny, or are you simply repeating the patterns of your past? The Invisible Chains That Control Our Lives Most people believe that destiny is something written somewhere beyond their control. When life rewards them, they call it luck. When suffering arrives, they blame...
Five professionals. Five salaries. One city. And a question that could change the way you look at your life. Bengaluru, India’s technology capital, is full of people chasing the same dream: a bigger salary, a better car, a beautiful apartment, foreign assignments and, finally, a peaceful retirement. But there is...
Can one book change how you see your whole life? Few books can. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche is one of them. Nietzsche wrote it between 1883 and 1885, and it sold very poorly at first. Today it is read across the world. The reason is simple: it does...
Most of us think money success needs high intelligence and deep knowledge of markets. Morgan Housel’s book The Psychology of Money (2020) says this is mostly wrong. Good results come from how you behave, not from how much you know. For Indian readers, who deal with SIPs, gold, property and...
When news broke on 8 October that Nana Patekar had died at 75, many Indians searched for one thing: how much money he left behind. The estimates range from Rs 50 crore to Rs 80 crore. These are media guesses, not audited numbers. But the way he held that money...
Many people confuse self respect with arrogance. From a distance, both look like a person who stands tall and does not bend easily. But they are very different, and there is one simple test to tell them apart: watch how a person treats the people who can do nothing for...
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...
Have you ever attended a meeting where someone spoke confidently about something they barely understood? Have you seen a person argue endlessly, refuse to accept a mistake, and still believe they are the smartest person in the room? Perhaps you have done it yourself. We all want to look intelligent....
A person prays in a quiet room. A politician prays in front of cameras. The act looks the same, but the purpose is different. Religion gives people comfort, discipline, and hope. It answers questions that no government can answer. That is exactly why it should stay personal. When a politician...
Your watch counts your steps. Your ring watches your sleep. But the most important organ in your body has had no daily report card. Deepinder Goyal, the man behind Zomato, wants to change that. His new company, Temple, is about to open pre-orders for a small wearable that sits on...
