Standing up for yourself — saying and doing what you want to say and do is being yourself, and the most difficult thing to do. While we all dream of doing this, we are at most times unable to do it. This is mainly because we are not sure who…

When you see a Tesla you think a car, a car that runs on battery and has an electric motor to drive. Then why is Tesla valued at multiples of the car companies that have been around for decades, and sell more cars in a month than Tesla sells in…

Disrupt verb: to stop something happening as or when it should Like elsewhere, politics in India is also an industry. And like all industries there is a conventional wisdom on how things are done in that industry. You organize people and divide them around caste and religion, polarize them and…

The dramatic start to the 90s In 1990 on a very rainy day in August I started studying engineering at Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University. I remember my father dropped me off and told my seniors to rag me and make a man out of me. …

Leadership is about being YOU, arguably the most difficult thing to do in the world. When you are YOU you are not pretending to be someone else, you bring yourself to the table, no matter what the situation, what the circumstances, no matter who the people around you, no matter…

Elections across the world has become very technology driven, there is data collected for every possible permutation and combination of voters and their voting preferences. You can have voting preference data by gender, by age group, by ethnic groups, by location, by dwelling size. There are many many organizations which…

When I was young I knew of only two career path s— Becoming an engineer or Doctor. That would ensure a satisfactory middle class life, have a scooter / car and a small house in Dehradun and probably have some savings to lead a happy retired life in Dehradun. Of…

If you discuss politics with any young working professional, their standard go to response is — please don’t discuss politics, we don’t want to be involved in such discussions. And this is so, in real life, on LinkedIn, on Facebook, on Twitter, any social media platform. People claim to and…

Microsoft is a risk taking visionary company more than anything else, when it makes bets, it makes big bets and has been doing that long before Jeff Bezos came on the scene and started making them. …