I visited Bhubaneswar for the first time, though I had visited Puri and Konark 30 years back. When I arrived at Bhubaneswar railway station, I attempted to book an auto. None of the drivers were willing to pick me up from the station premises. Several informed me over the phone that app-based autos are not…
Lung cancer has always been thought of as a smoker’s disease. That is still largely true, but the story is changing in an important way. A growing share of lung cancer is now being diagnosed in people who have never smoked. Globally, about 15-20% of lung cancer cases occur in never-smokers. That means if lung cancer…
There was a time when astrology revealed light, education cultivated wisdom, and time invited contemplation. Today, astrology predicts stock movements, education guarantees packages, and time measures productivity per hour. Progress, apparently. Astrology can return to light. Education can return to depth. Time can return to dimension. What once oriented human beings toward liberation now submits…
I have coached leaders with razor-sharp minds and glittering CVs who still could not keep good people in the room. They could solve complex problems in minutes, yet struggle to have a simple conversation without leaving emotional debris behind. That gap is not about intelligence. It is about EQ in leadership, the human skill that…
The emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as the defining technology of the 21st century has reshaped global power equations. Control over data, computing, and algorithms is rapidly becoming as consequential as control over energy or finance. Against this backdrop, the India led AI Impact Summit scheduled at New Delhi from 16-20 February 2026 is about…
The recent episode involving a private university at the AI Impact Summit has been painful to watch. First, a word for the students and faculty. There are good students and committed teachers in every institution. When something goes viral for the wrong reasons, it is not only the management that feels the heat. It is…
On June 30, 2023, Nikhil Gupta boarded a flight from India to Prague. The moment he landed, he was arrested at America’s request. He was later extradited, and this month, pleaded guilty in New York to conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire. The target was Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a Sikh separatist who holds US citizenship. The indictment…
While the inconsequential theatrics of the budget session of parliament gave the country a bag full of drawing room conversations, meaningful discussions were few and far in between. With defence allocations rising, Budget 2026 poses a larger question: is public health being treated as core national security or merely as a peripheral welfare concern? Though…
I’ve spent over two decades in sales, and my years in luxury real estate have taught me a quiet truth: luxury isn’t sold with louder effort. It’s earned with finer attention. I was inspired to write this after repeatedly watching capable salespeople lose high-value clients, not because the product wasn’t right, but because the approach…
My take after analysing the conversation of Feb 26 AI Summit in Delhi We are completely distracted. The internet is endlessly debating which software writes the best poetry or creates the funniest memes. But behind closed doors, global superpowers are weaponizing artificial intelligence for something far more critical: collapsing decades of complex research into a…