Tag: Writing and Reading
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The Taste of Conversations
We speak about acquiring a taste for food because it helps us recognize ourselves changing. As children, we reach for sweetness, shy away from bitterness, approach unfamiliar flavours with suspicion, and measure every meal by…
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The Ethics of Reading
A conversation around a quote from Jiddu Krishnamurti left me thinking about something I had not noticed before. The discussion began with his words but wandered into his life instead, into the contradictions people believed…
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What is an essay
I The word essay has been used very loosely, as we have started using it for reflections, travelogues, reviews, criticisms, opinions, and memoirs. We call any collection of sentences an essay. The boundaries have dissolved…
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The Voice an Institution Cannot Have
Every year, some of the world’s smartest organizations publish thousands of pages of writing, yet only a tiny fraction survives in their readers’ memory. Many of the world’s leading organizations attract exceptional people, invest heavily…
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The Story You Cannot Avoid
But how could you live and have no story to tell, Oh Fyodor! The line refuses to behave like something you admire and move on from because it lingers with a quiet persistence, as if…
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Why Everyone Should Write a Book
People rarely admit it, but the first thing that stops them from writing isn’t time or skill or even discipline. It’s that small, suspicious voice that pipes up whenever a creative impulse appears: Who’s going…
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III : The Crisis of Coherence
There are days when I feel as if the world is moving two or three steps ahead of whatever my mind was built to handle. Not because anything catastrophic has happened in that moment, but…
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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…