From wit and ambiguity to humility and integrity, YV Reddy’s new book shows why values matter more than plans in an uncertain world.
Kalyan Ram
India’s first-gen unicorns have scaled Maslow’s pyramid. The harder test comes now: can they metabolize growth into legacy?
Kirti Tarang Pande
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You reach the stage of life where nothing is wrong, and still nothing quite feels right. An exploration of the private unease that creeps in when ordinariness starts to feel like underachievement.
Srinath Sridharan
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A dinner-table question opens a window into why educated, ambitious young Indians are disengaging from voting, and how their apathy masks a deeper reckoning.
Kalyani Srinath
Indian middle age has mastered the art of appearing composed while quietly avoiding uncomfortable truths. We have made this “being sorted” a social performance, and it costs us our self.
A reflection on modern Indian parenting, where gentle interventions meant as love may quietly deny children the chance to own failure, effort and growth.
What motivates you at 22 isn’t what sustains you at 42. Institutions that miss this often misread fulfilment as fatigue.
Before the New Year resolutions begin, a reminder that most lives survive not through transformation but through repetition. As the year ends, let us look at the small, ordinary habits that quietly carried us through, and why they deserve more respect than our grand plans for change.
Winter is framed as crisis and gloom in India, but beneath the smog lies a season built for closeness, reflection and care, if only our institutions learn to see it.
Thirty children, glowing screens, and a missed plan collide on Christmas morning—offering a quiet, unexpected lesson about attention, freedom, and the music we almost don’t hear.
As wealth compounds at digital speed and markets double as moral arbiters, our age pairs dazzling innovation with deep inequality—turning abundance into spectacle and deprivation into data.
R. Gurumurthy
We live in an age of endless options, yet most of us follow the safest possible script. How we hide behind our own idea of freedom, how we mistake caution for character.
Margazhi Chennai promises music, memory and magic — but also demands stamina, humour and a willingness to adjust expectations.
We upgraded our homes, careers, holidays and skin-care routines. Somehow joy did not get the memo. Middle age is now a place where comfort is abundant and contentment is missing in action.
Noise-cancelled brains, frictionless lives: India’s crisis isn’t loneliness—it’s dopamine induced sedation keeping young men happy but humanly inert.
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Today’s “entitled” kids aren’t spoiled — they’re adapting. They’re digital natives using humour, boundaries and tech to survive smarter in a chaotic world.
When a crisis flares, facts rarely decide its fate. Tone does. Some failures fade; others become national theatre. The difference is whether leaders steady the room—or leave it to silence.
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Shivaram Subramaniam
India’s markets remain steady on fundamentals but still swing to every hint of Federal Reserve uncertainty, revealing how psychology now shapes price action.
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We have income, independence and opinions but not emotional maturity. Middle age today looks impressive but behaves like adolescence wearing nicer clothes.
Michael Patra is an economist and former RBI Deputy Governor.
Arun is a seasoned writer on economic and policy matters.
Abheek is an Independent Economist and the Former Chief Economist at HDFC Bank.
Ajay Srivastava is the founder of the Global Trade Research Initiative.
Vijay Singh Chauhan, a former IRS official, is a Senior Visiting Fellow at ICPP, Ashoka University
Dhananjay, a D-School alum, is CEO and Co-Head of Equities at Systematix Group.
Kriti is a psychologist specialising in mental health, org behaviour, and brand strategy
Srinath is an author, corporate advisor, and independent director on corporate boards.
Ex-civil servant Chavaly held key Railways, Finance roles; specialises in infra & PPPs
Nilanjan Banik, Professor at Mahindra University, specialises in trade and development economics.
Sachin was till recently an MD with Standard Chartered Bank.
Rajesh Mahapatra is the former Editor of The Press Trust of India
Krishnadevan is Editorial Director at BasisPoint Insight.
Chandra advises companies on big-picture narratives on strategy and markets.
Kalyan Ram co-founded Cogencis. He now leads BasisPoint Insight.
Gurumurthy is an ex-central banker who handled markets, and later, financial stability for RBI.
Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain is a former Commander of India’s Kashmir Corps.