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Eight stories that stay with you

What an examination taught me that four decades of experience could not

The future changes when someone pauses long enough to ask a simple question: Why?

The best books of the year so far—on disagreeing constructively, culture, strategic subtraction, genius, China's advantage, an India you think you know, creativity, establishment paralysis, imposter syndrome, and reimagining your career

We make thousands of decisions every day using remarkably little conscious thought. In a conversation around his new book ‘Micro Stimuli’, Biju Dominic explains what that means for AI, communication, and the way we persuade ourselves and others.

As speech-to-text tools become eerily good, they are changing not just how we write, but how we think, remember, and inhabit private space

A management consultant reflects on how modern corporate life slowly rewards motion without intentionality—and why protecting space for life beyond work has become a conscious discipline.

A Bengaluru family with no mountaineering background spent eight months preparing for the Annapurna Circuit—and discovered that ordinary people may be capable of far more than they imagine.

What happens when progress stops asking for permission?

We spend a lifetime storing money, only to realise we were really storing time

A tribute to the veteran photojournalist whose work revealed the country’s beauty, contradictions, and defining moments

In Japan, manga isn’t an industry—it’s culture at scale. A journey through the habits that made it so

What if the real crisis in leadership is not strategic—but moral? It’s a question Prof Raj Sisodia explores in this Meet the Author conversation

What happens when a centuries-old knowledge system—held in practice, not institutions—meets a world changing faster than it can adapt? The Changpas of Changthang are living that question.