Around a month back I read a Facebook post which talked about how south Koreans mostly ate vegetarian food before the 1960s as most people could not afford meat or seafood of any form. Contrast this to its current positioning as "Carnivore's paradise". There is a strong link between meat eating and economic growth. In... Continue Reading →

During one of the podcasts, Tim Ferris mentioned about having a positive frame of mind when viewing how things in your life. He bought about this point by pointing out to a common phenomenon which happens when you begin noticing more of certain things ever since you have started thinking about it. Imagine you decide... Continue Reading →

One of the things which get often discussed these days is that there is a declining trend in reading newspapers and in general act of consuming news of any sort. Working for one of the group company owning a newspaper in India means that people do look up to my opinion on this topic. As... Continue Reading →

Most days we have no control over how the day is going to pan out, you could be happy that you achieved what you had planned or could be sad because things did not work out. This is is because regardless of how you feel we dont control most things which happen in our day.... Continue Reading →

Yesterday I listened to this beautiful podcast between Naval Ravikant and Kapil Gupta on how we have romanticized hard work and how in general it is wrong advice to give. It does sound counterintuitive but I would suggest you read on further to understand more. Hard Work means Success? Over time the general narrative for... Continue Reading →

Have you noticed what happens when you are angry with someone or something which has happened ?. When we are angry we are hurting ourselves first because the negative emotions hurt us first before it moves or impacts the other person. In fact when you are angry and keep holding on to that though you... Continue Reading →

If people become very successful in life they tend to have this feeling they are immortal and some even think they are the god. The most famous dialogue from this Sacred Games- season 1, 'Kabhi Kabhi Lagta Hai Apun hi Bhagwan hai”' summaries this feeling of feeling invincible. However, this very feeling has caused the... Continue Reading →

Indians have a curious tendency. Whenever any Indian gains global recognition, we tend to check out the caste or city to which the Indian belongs to! And then, this knowledge goes viral on social media. India might have changed a lot over the years, but caste continues to dominate our society. Why is this so?... Continue Reading →

If you are like me, you would have made your annual visit to a large jewellery showroom by now and bought some jewellery. You would have seen that, of late, most of these showrooms offer you a cup of coffee or juice to you during your shopping. Mostly this will be around the time that... Continue Reading →