Category: Blogs

Amid the chatter about artificial intelligence mania, people have begun to joke about “a bubble in bubble talk”. Google searches for AI and the b-word have surged and the mood in the markets feels exuberant, but beyond these soft indicators there is no standard measure of a bubble. My test focuses on four Os – […]

Mumbai is finally having an election for the BMC (Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation) on January 15. The BMC runs the city and has a lot of money to fix roads, clean drains, manage schools and hospitals. Elections were supposed to happen three years ago, but they were delayed. These elections matter because Mumbai is in bad […]

Cash was a good accountant, QR code is a terrible one Until recently, I was that person – the one still dispensing crumpled notes at cafes while everyone else bent the knee before the holy QR code. Friends interrogated my anachronism. Was I paranoid about digital trails? Cosplaying a minor movie villain from the 1990s?  The […]

How negative emotions linger in the environment When someone feels sad or angry or negative, they create similar vibrations around them. Those vibrations stick to the environment. If you walk into that place, even after they have left, for no reason, you start feeling those similar emotions. You were all right a few minutes ago, […]

That was the day I nearly disowned my one and only brother. Yes, the same man who once borrowed my first edition-worthy set of Austen paperbacks and returned them looking like they had survived a small monsoon and possibly an avalanche. The same brother who sincerely believes Sense and Sensibility is the name of a […]

Let’s get one point clear at the very outset: There’s just no room to whitewash the bedlam at Salt Lake Stadium over Argentine great Lionel Messi’s visit as the concomitant of the city’s enduring love and “passion” for the ‘beautiful game’. There can be no “love” and nothing “passionate” about a grotesque display of anarchy – albeit in a […]

Most of us think about health as something that pays off in our later years: fewer diseases and better aging. But a recent conversation I hosted with Mayank Bathwal, CEO of Aditya Birla Health Insurance (ABHI) demonstrated that taking care of your health isn’t just good for long-term wellbeing, but is also one of the […]

The 26/11 attacks in India’s commercial capital, Mumbai, were a pivotal moment in the country’s troubled history of terrorism, and while much has been written about the attacks themselves, the documentation of the complex organizational structure and dynamics that underpinned these attacks has, at best, been fragmentary. Terrorism, moreover, has most often been examined in […]

Lithium powers our dreams of a cleaner future. It is the hidden pulse inside electric cars gliding down highways, the quiet engine behind rooftop solar systems, and the chemical promise in every climate pledge that imagines a world free from fossil fuels. As the planet warms and nations race to decarbonise, lithium-ion batteries have become […]

In modern workplaces, team bonding often develops informally — lunch breaks, coffee chats, shared hobbies, or casual end-of-day conversations. These interactions matter, but they also come with a blind spot: they unintentionally exclude people who do not naturally fit into these social circles.What happens to the employee whose schedule, personality, responsibilities, or life stage do […]