There is one truth that can destroy a lot of unnecessary stress: You are not that important. Neither am I. The world existed before us. It will continue after us. One day, someone else will live in our house, sit in our chair, run our business, spend our money and...
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...
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...
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 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 are taught from childhood that democracy is the best form of government. People vote, governments are elected, leaders are changed, and power is supposed to remain with the people. But today, an uncomfortable question is emerging across the world: What happens when people start losing faith in democracy because...
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...
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...
