India, April 26 -- Growing irrelevance, and desperation Abhishek Asthana In the 1990s, my father - a middle manager in an Indian company - was posted in a city in Bihar named after a revenue officer... Read More
India, April 13 -- Long ago, when I reached financial puberty and started earning enough to give back to parents, I made a mistake. Let me provide some context. Like many millions, I was a hardworking... Read More
India, April 12 -- Long ago, when I reached financial puberty and started earning enough to give back to parents, I made a mistake. Let me provide some context. Like many millions, I was a hardworking... Read More
India, March 30 -- If you have spent your life building a great professional career, gathering a corpus, the worst way to help humanity would be to spend it on charity. Don't get me wrong, helping the... Read More
India, March 29 -- If you have spent your life building a great professional career, working hard to build a corpus, the worst way to help humanity would be to spend it on charity. Don't get me wrong,... Read More
India, March 16 -- Whenever I am happy or sad about a cricket result, I ask this existential question: How does a cricket result matter to me? It's a pure intangible. It doesn't improve my standard of... Read More
India, March 15 -- Whenever I am happy or sad about a cricket result, I ask this existential question: How does a cricket result matter to me? It's a pure intangible. It doesn't improve my standard of... Read More
India, March 1 -- It's a truism from my childhood and adolescence: Many schoolboys did not have a girlfriend because their parents decided their barber. The brief was simple, make the child look as un... Read More
India, Feb. 15 -- A side-lower berth in a long-distance train is the best place to see India. It gives a 55-inch panoramic view of the hinterland, a charging point, and ample space to stretch your leg... Read More