Basis Life

Throne of Thrones — A Love Letter to Japanese Toilets

From heated seats to the Otohime sound princess, Japan’s toilets offer restraint, comfort and dignity — everything politics does not.

R. Gurumurthy

August 31, 2025 at 4:02 PM IST

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Mumbai’s Addiction to Apathy

We call it resilience. In truth, it’s addiction, the dangerous habit of enduring neglect until survival itself becomes the city’s only virtue.

Kalyani Srinath

August 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM IST

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Prosperous Farms, not Farmhouses, Will Keep Children Happy

We romanticise farmhouse retirements but treat farming with apathy. This hypocrisy is hurting our kids.

Kirti Tarang Pande

August 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM IST

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Sarci-Sense: About Silent Goodbyes & How Middle-Age Friendships Disappear

In a world where ‘connection’ is measured by likes, emojis, and quick replies, the deepest friendships are quietly slipping away. This is the story of those silent goodbyes, and the cost we often don’t see until it’s too late.

Srinath Sridharan

August 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM IST

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You're Not a Referee – Stop Breaking Up Fights and Start Changing the Game

Why do Indian grandparents’ stories work better than your MBA? Science agrees.

Kirti Tarang Pande

August 23, 2025 at 8:06 AM IST

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Sarci-Sense: The Guest Room Host Sleeps In

Every luxury apartment flaunts it: the “guest bedroom.” But what it becomes in real life is far more interesting: part storage room, part marital timeout zone, part silent confession of fatigue and freedom.

Srinath Sridharan

August 17, 2025 at 10:36 AM IST

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Maternity Leave for Students Not Compassion, But A Fundamental Right

In an inclusive education system, no woman should have to choose between giving birth to a child and her right to acquire wisdom.

Ravi Bhardwaj

August 16, 2025 at 8:49 AM IST

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A Thread That Holds More Than it Ties

In a world of staged celebrations, a quiet Raksha Bandhan visit shows how the simplest gestures can carry the deepest bonds.

Kalyani Srinath

August 16, 2025 at 8:24 AM IST

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Tariffs Can Bite Steel, Not Serenity: India’s $21-Billion Neuro-Advantage

India holds the blueprint for cognitive resilience. Fuse ancient neuro-biotech with science, and it becomes hard power no trade war can undermine.

Kirti Tarang Pande

August 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM IST

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Basis Life

The Never-Empty Nesters: When Grown Kids Refuse to Fly

More young Indians are choosing comfort over independence, delaying empty nests and slowing economic momentum in ways that ripple through the nation.

Kalyani Srinath

August 10, 2025 at 8:39 AM IST

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Sarci-Sense: One Master Bedroom, Two Baths: The Sanity of Middle Age

In many Indian homes, love no longer storms out, it quietly negotiates more room to breathe. Separate duvets and soon-to-be popular twin bathrooms could be quiet strategies to be together, and yet sane.

Srinath Sridharan

August 10, 2025 at 8:15 AM IST

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Basis Life

A Tale of Two Cities: Where Journeys Aren’t Measured in Miles

Not all changes make headlines. Some are slow, quiet, and deeply personal. And some stories begin long after you’ve left. This one starts in a place you thought you knew.

Kalyani Srinath

August 3, 2025 at 10:43 AM IST

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Sarci-Sense: The ‘Hum Do, Hamare Do’ Mantra of the Middle‑Aged

In countless Indian middle‑aged homes, the old fight over the TV remote has quietly ended, replaced by two screens, two feeds, and a silence that feels like peace. But is there peace?

Srinath Sridharan

August 3, 2025 at 8:43 AM IST

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Sarci-Sense: Middle Age – Where the Joints Ache and So Does the Truth

We’ve grown into our sarcasm. We’ve earned our eye-rolls. And we’ve made peace with the fact that nothing in life bends quite the way it used to, neither our backs, nor our expectations.

Srinath Sridharan

July 27, 2025 at 6:30 AM IST

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Basis Life

Pants or Pallus, Purr or Roar: Fix Systems, Not Gender

Gender Tax: real. Predatory behaviour disguised as nurturing purrs: real. Not he vs she, it’s audit vs attrition. Your playbook breeds predators.

Kirti Tarang Pande

July 26, 2025 at 5:05 AM IST

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From Rebellion to Reflection: The Parent We Didn’t Want to Be

Middle-class Indians are rediscovering the quiet wisdom in old routines—realising, with irony and grace, that they’ve become what they once resisted.

Kalyani Srinath

July 26, 2025 at 4:06 AM IST

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The New Evolution: Now with Spine, Small Talk, and Super Sight

Lab-grown backbones, monkey-inspired manners, and surveillance-grade contact lenses. Is evolution getting outsourced to technology?

R. Gurumurthy

July 25, 2025 at 7:59 AM IST

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Basis Life

Power, Desire, and The Boardroom: Kirti Tarang Pande On Gender And Control

Srinath Sridharan

July 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM IST

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Sarci-Sense: Hormones, Homework, and the Hot Flash of Truth

Ask any middle-aged parent of a teen today, and they’ll tell you: we’re not raising children; we’re surviving tech-powered beings who believe your existence is a personal attack on their vibe.

Srinath Sridharan

July 21, 2025 at 7:24 AM IST

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Coldplay Kiss Cam — Corporate Chaos — Office Power Doesn’t Stay in Your Pants

Hot spouse but crave the intern? That boss spark? "That’s not chemistry. It’s the thrill of power misread as desire." Can you keep power at work and out of your sheets?

Kirti Tarang Pande

July 19, 2025 at 7:47 AM IST

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Basis Life

Why Even VIPs Falter Without Hunger

Legacy means little without hunger. Promoters must ask tough questions before strong brands fade into relics.

Srinath Sridharan

July 15, 2025 at 5:19 AM IST

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Sarci-Sense: Then and Now and Somewhere in Between

Parenting, whether in the 1980s or 2020s, is still a complicated act of hope. It is believing that the child you raise will one day understand the parent you tried to be.

Srinath Sridharan

July 13, 2025 at 1:03 PM IST

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Gossip Or Glue? Understanding What Builds Or Breaks Office Culture

Your office survives on gossip like Delhi survives on smog and samosas. But is it bonding or backstabbing? Let’s decode the psychology behind gossip that heals versus harms.

Kirti Tarang Pande

July 12, 2025 at 2:44 AM IST

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Sarci-Sense: Midlife In A Filtered Frame

Today, being visible means being active online. And being active online means you must pick a lane—funny, wise, relatable, aesthetic, or occasionally all of the above.

Srinath Sridharan

July 6, 2025 at 4:46 AM IST

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Aamir Khan’s Humblebrag Trap: How Performative Modesty Erodes Brand Equity

Elites, stop playing pauper. Drop fake modesty. Own your privilege with values-driven vulnerability to build real brand equity.

Kirti Tarang Pande

July 5, 2025 at 4:34 AM IST

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Basis Life

The $8.8 Trillion Productivity Killer Undermining Modern Leadership

Emotional disengagement is quietly crippling performance and profits. Leaders must invest in attention infrastructure to restore connection and trust.

Kirti Tarang Pande

July 1, 2025 at 7:54 AM IST

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The Future of Leadership Need Not Be Algorithmic

Human-AI collaboration is not a technological milestone. It is actually a societal test for which our current models of leadership are not ready for.

Srinath Sridharan

July 1, 2025 at 1:16 AM IST

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Sarci-Sense: The Realities Of The Great Holiday Showdown

The annual holiday planning is now an exchange of dreams, realities, and the occasional eye-roll. It’s about finding balance, compromising on the dream destination, and navigating the quirks that make shared adventures unforgettable.

Srinath Sridharan

June 29, 2025 at 5:55 AM IST

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Love, Actually: An Analog Anomaly In A Digital World

In a world of instant gratification, love remains a gradually compounding asset. Its quiet dividends—trust, care, and connection—often yield the highest emotional returns.

Kalyani Srinath

June 28, 2025 at 4:39 AM IST

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Basis Life

Dear C-Suite, Your Team’s Real Boss Is The Algorithm

You can’t lead humans with quarterly KPIs when bots control the workflow. Reinvent leadership or risk irrelevance.

Kirti Tarang Pande

June 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM IST

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Sarci-Sense: Joint Pain, Joint Account — The Midlife Budget Of Love

A funny bone meets a knee bone in this honest account of what middle-aged love looks like, between medicine alarms, mutual funds, and murmured sweet nothings about bank balance.

Srinath Sridharan

June 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM IST

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The Ugly Beautiful Of Motherhood: An Undervalued Economic Pillar

Despite shaping human capital and sustaining economies, motherhood remains undervalued in policy, pay, and perception across homes and workplaces.

Kalyani Srinath

June 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM IST

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Basis Life

The Warzones Of Today Have No Borders

And the fire we ignore abroad may soon burn through our own certainties.

Srinath Sridharan

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June 18, 2025 at 7:50 AM IST

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Artificial Everything: When Childhood Gets A Software Update

When toddlers are taught coding before colouring, is childhood being optimised out of existence in the race to future-proof everything?

R. Gurumurthy

June 18, 2025 at 2:40 AM IST

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Sarci-Sense: From Swoon Phase to Moon-phase — The Great Indian Marital Timing

A warm, cheeky look at how the spark in long-term Indian marriages just its own different calendar.

Srinath Sridharan

June 14, 2025 at 7:33 AM IST

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It Takes A City, Not A Couple, To Run An Indian Household

In the great Indian city life, it’s not love or luck that holds a home together—it is the cook, the bai, the driver, the tuition teacher, and a prayer that everyone shows up on time.

Srinath Sridharan

June 7, 2025 at 7:38 AM IST

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BCCI Can Call Time-Out On India’s Spitting Habit

India battles a costly, unhealthy spitting habit. Can cricket icons and the BCCI inspire a cleaner nation on and off the field?

Krishnadevan V

June 1, 2025 at 4:51 AM IST

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When Parents Age And Middle-Aged Children Run Out of Time

Urban success has come at the cost of familial presence. As our parents age in quieter towns, we struggle to be there—not for lack of love, but for lack of time.

Srinath Sridharan

May 31, 2025 at 5:31 AM IST

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The Art Of Saying Nothing: India’s “Hi” Culture

In a hyper-connected India, our digital hellos often reveal a deeper discomfort with clarity, confidence, and saying what we truly mean.

Srinath Sridharan

May 24, 2025 at 5:38 AM IST

Basis Life

We Avoid Some People — And Why We Might Be One of Them

We have all dodged a call or avoided a message — but what if every silent exit says more about us than the person we are avoiding?

Srinath Sridharan

May 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM IST

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If Only Tweets Can Bring Peace With Permanence

Donald Trump may rush to take credit for ceasefire theatrics, but the US’ decades-long complicity in funding and legitimising Pakistan’s terror machinery cannot be airbrushed with a tweet. .

Srinath Sridharan

May 12, 2025 at 7:40 AM IST

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Fast, Fatal, and Forgettable: The Deadly Price Of McDonaldised Delivery

A young rider died delivering food fast. The real culprit? A system wired for speed, not safety. We’re trading lives for convenience.

R. Gurumurthy

May 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM IST

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Healing Within, Finding Peace Beyond Outer Conflict

Our greatest battles are often not with the world around us, but with the unhealed emotions within.

Srinath Sridharan

May 11, 2025 at 5:29 AM IST

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India’s Economy Expands 7.8% in June Quarter, Highest in Five Quarters

Trump Tests the Guardrails of US Credibility

Market Makers

Sarci-Sense: About Silent Goodbyes & How Middle-Age Friendships Disappear

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