Blogs

People-pleasing is one of the most socially rewarded forms of self-erasure. It is praised as maturity, flexibility, and grace, especially when it makes other people comfortable. But people-pleasing often comes with a hidden bill: resentment, exhaustion, confusion, and a shrinking sense of self. I have seen it in coaching rooms, in marriages, in workplaces, and…

When Royal Challengers Bengaluru changed hands for ₹16,600cr in March, followed by Rajasthan Royals at Rs 15,100cr, the cricket world gasped. Two franchises sold for nearly five times the original price of all eight IPL teams combined. IPL now commands a place alongside NFL and NBA, in global sports league valuations. How does a cricket…

In psychology, there is a concept called absolute limen. It is the smallest stimulus a person can detect— the faintest sound, the dimmest light, the slightest touch that enters awareness. It is the threshold of noticing. But outside laboratories, we live by emotional limens too. Each person carries in them a different threshold. Some learn…

By Hansaji Yogendra When troubled by uncertainty owing to worldly events, our tendency is to seek reassurance externally – in leaders, policies, or outcomes. The yogic way is that when the outer world trembles, the inner world must be kept steady. The Gita was revealed on a battlefield and not in a serene ashram. Wisdom…

As philosopher Alain de Botton explains, modern lovers should redraw their expectations from relationships – they should value any satisfaction they get, as the norm really is sexual rejectionAdvait Kamath It’s bad enough how bad our sex life usually feels. All these feelings are worsened by ‘knowing’ that we live in a liberated age, where…

Protests were at inflection point… then US-Israel attackedWith negotiations to end the Iran war in limbo, there is much speculation about the status of the Iranian regime. Are there cracks or is the regime holding? More important, what do ordinary Iranians want? Battered by the conflict, is there now a rupture between Iranians and ayatollahs?Or…

As the annual board results season knocks on our doors, it brings with it a familiar frenzy—a high-stakes atmosphere where dinner table conversations turn into data comparisons and percentage becomes the buzzword of the entire family. Increasingly, it feels as though this number alone defines a student’s worth.  Instead of being a safe harbour, many families—often…

The temptation to frame climate and war risk as competing forces is analytically insufficient. The real question is not which dominates, but “which markets can structurally price within current financial architectures”. What defines this moment is not risk itself, but persistent “pricing incoherence”. For India, this is already tangible—shaping capital allocation across infrastructure, energy, and…

Commercial diplomacy—the use of diplomatic pathways, state institutions, and political capital to promote trade, investment, and corporate interests abroad—has become a central pillar of foreign policy in the 2020s. What used to be a relatively technocratic field focused on trade fairs, export promotion, and bilateral chambers of commerce is now deeply connected with national security,…

Imagine this: you go to buy petrol for your car, but the petrol pump says, “No fuel for you!” Why? Because you don’t have a special paper called a PUC certificate (Pollution Under Control). Now here’s the strange part — the government is also not giving that certificate to your car if it is “too…