Tag: Society and Culture
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The Missing Parent: How India Outsourced Its Children’s Curiosity
Schools can draw the map, but the child can’t walk it alone. The first classroom and the first teacher still live at home Everyone keeps talking about how schools are broken, how the education system…
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I : The Age of the Default
For most of human history, the meaning of life was not found. It was inherited. The story of human civilization begins not with freedom but with structure. People didn’t wake each morning asking who they…
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The Great Indian Guilt Trip: How ‘No Crackers, No Colors’ Became a Moral Flex
Every Diwali it starts again with the same chatter:We should get out of the city this year, it’s too noisyThe pollution gets unbearableThe poor dogs will suffer And suddenly, everyone becomes an environmental saint.The same…
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The Applause Trap
We pretend we don’t care what people think. We say it casually, I don’t need anyone’s approval. But that’s not quite true. There’s always that small, flickering hope inside us that someone notices. Someone pauses.…
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Why AI Alone Won’t Change the World
Something’s shifting. For twenty years, the story was simple: software was eating the world. Marc Andreessen made it a headline in Software Is Eating the World, and for a while, it felt like gospel. Apps…
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The Four-Hour Happiness Con
I was scrolling through my Running WhatsApp group when I came across a post advertising a four-hour happiness workshop for ₹1999. The absurdity of it hit me so hard I almost dropped my phone. Happiness,…
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From Taste to Instinct
We live in a time that moves faster than we can process. Social media, endless notifications, curated feeds, streams of information: it’s all designed to keep us moving, scrolling, reacting. Most of us don’t notice…
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The Seduction of Easy Thinking
Every age produces its own bestsellers, its own prophets of clarity. Today’s bookshops and airports are stacked high with titles that promise to decode the human mind, map out the arc of history, explain why…
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The End of Labor Arbitrage? How U.S. Policy and Market Shifts Are Rewriting Indian IT Strategy
The outsourcing industry is running into a storm. Higher H-1B visa fees, the proposed HIRE Act, shrinking profit margins, and the slow erosion of labor cost advantages are converging at once. Even Global Capability Centers…
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Why Originality is Overrated
We like to think creativity is about being original. Pure, groundbreaking originality. It just appears out of nowhere. Truth? Mostly a myth. Almost nothing truly new comes from nothing. Creativity is messy. Borrowed. Broken. Stitched…