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We like principles when they are free.That may be one of the easiest things about being principled.You can say you believe in something.You can talk about integrity.You can admire people who refuse to bend.But then comes the uncomfortable part.What happens when standing by that principle actually costs you something?That was the question I kept returning to while reading Gauri Grover's The Unyield...
Zombie stories have a familiar equation.Something infects people.People become dangerous.The survivors try to stop them.Code 103 Redacted: Patient Zer0 by Sidhant Khanna changes one important variable.The infected are children.And the tactical unit sent into the school has one rule:No lethal force.That immediately makes the story more interesting.Because the people they are fighting are also the p...
The Next MoveThere are people who seem to know where they are going.They have a plan for their career, a plan for their money, a plan for their children and, occasionally, a plan for what they will do after retirement.Then there are the rest of us.We make a plan.Something happens.We adjust.Something else happens.We adjust again.Years later, when someone asks how we got there, we tell the story bac...
काही दिवसांपूर्वी एका पुस्तकाचं नाव वाचलं.गुज अंतरी.मनातलं काहीतरी.नाव वाचून पहिला विचार आला, आपण सगळेच काही ना काही मनात ठेवतो.काही गोष्टी सांगतो.काही अर्धवट सांगतो.आणि काही कुणालाच सांगत नाही.पण बाईच्या बाबतीत हा न सांगितलेला भाग थोडा मोठा असतो का?Ruchita Sahil यांचा Antariche Guj वाचताना हा प्रश्न पुन्हा पुन्हा समोर येत राहिला.आपल्याला आपल्या घरातल्या बायका माहीत असतात.आई काय करते हे माहीत असतं...
Echoes of Deception: When Every Secret Looks Like a MotiveA murder mystery becomes difficult when the suspect list is small.It becomes much more interesting when almost everyone has a reason to lie.That is what caught my attention in Dinesh Arya's Echoes of Deception.Helen Rodrigues, a controversial corporate executive, is found dead at a company retreat. Senior Inspector Pratap Rao Singh takes ov...
There are people who have been gone for years and still occupy a chair in our minds.We know they are dead.There is no confusion about that.And yet we still know what they would have said.We still remember how they laughed.Sometimes we catch ourselves wanting to tell them something.That is the strange thing about human absence.The body can disappear much faster than the relationship.I kept thinking...
I have been thinking about Tuesdays.Not Mondays.Not launch days.Not the day a company announces funding.Tuesdays.The ordinary days when nobody is particularly interested in what a business is doing.Someone places an order.Someone complains.Someone sends an invoice.Someone looks at the bank balance.Someone decides whether to spend money or wait.Someone notices that customers are not using the produ...
There is a strange privilege in modern civilisation.We can depend on something without ever seeing it.Turn on a tap and water appears.Open an app and information appears.Order food and a complex supply chain disappears behind a delivery notification.Walk into an office and we rarely think about the infrastructure that makes the building functional.The more sophisticated a system becomes, the easie...
There is a subtle shift happening in organisations.We are moving from using AI to do things towards using AI to tell us what to do.That second shift is much more consequential.A machine that drafts a report is one thing.A machine that identifies a project risk, recommends a resource allocation, forecasts an outcome or suggests a course of action is something else entirely.That is where Danilo Arba...
There is a particular kind of “yes” that does not come from generosity.It comes from fear.Fear of disappointing someone.Fear of being called selfish.Fear of becoming less important.Fear that if you stop being available, someone might stop needing you.That thought kept returning to me while reading Aurora S.’s First You, Then the Rest.The title sounds straightforward: put yourself first.But real li...
