He couldn’t have been more than seven.A school uniform, dusty shoes, and a half-smoked beedi clenched awkwardly between his fingers. He was caught asking a local rickshaw puller for a match to light it. When refused, he protested — “My father taught me how to smoke.” He said it not with defiance, but with the […]
Imagine, for a moment, a world without the local barber under the tree. For a modest fee — anywhere between ten and fifty cents — this craftsman provides a service far more effective than Gillette’s multi-million-dollar “Shave India Movement.” While ad agencies brainstorm slogans about smoothness, our man under the tree quietly keeps the faces […]
1947. The 15th of August. The stroke of midnight.The pages of Indian history turned, and a new chapter began — an era of independence, hard-earned and heavy with consequence. As the rest of the world slept, India awoke — not just to freedom, but to responsibility. The dawn was radiant, but the night before it […]
The phrase Total Recall may sound cinematic, but what we truly need today is a Social Media Recall — a moment of pause to reflect on what we’re really building online. Over the past decade, social media has evolved from conversation to commerce, from sharing to shouting. The noise is constant, and the challenge for […]
Time management shouldn’t be a separate activity — it should be an integral part of the way you do things. For this to happen, you need to develop good time management habits and avoid bad ones. Time management is not an external discipline; it is an internal practice. It is not about creating rigid schedules […]
I remember when I first began studying science in school. It was presented as the study of the universe, built on principles that seemed absolute: These laws created a framework, and within that framework we were asked to see the universe. But as the study of science advanced, the framework stretched. Relativity revealed that mass […]
I define art as the reproduction of thoughts and emotions — those flashes of inspiration that cannot be forced into structure. Art is not just canvas and color, melody and rhythm; it is the honest expression of the human spirit. By that measure, blogging is art. Beyond Professionalism Today, there are “professional bloggers” who write […]
In 2008, at a Carbon Trading Conference, I listened to two Western experts suggest that India’s “wild cows” were a problem — that their digestive emissions added to the carbon footprint, and therefore reducing their number could improve the environment. The argument shocked me. It was a reminder of how easily the logic of commerce […]
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;Where knowledge is free;Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;Where words come out from the depth of truth;Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the […]
The one who created the universe also created its smallest crevices — the places where we lose what is dear to us, whether objects or certainties, and the spaces where we stumble in our own lives. The same presence governs it all. If He wished, He could remain hidden forever, beyond the reach of our […]