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Disclaimer: This bears no resemblance with the “Wolf of Wall Street”. Just kidding. Of course I have copied the name to an Indian context. icture this: a bustling street in the heart of Mumbai, where dreams are bought and sold by the millisecond. Welcome to Dalal Street, India’s Wall Street, where fortunes are made and…

For years, I thought my greatest fears were external – spiders, heights, public speaking. But as I’ve gotten older and (somewhat) wiser, I’ve realized that the most terrifying thing I’ve ever had to face was staring back at me in the mirror all along. It sounds cliché, I know. But bear with me, because this…

You ever feel like the deck’s stacked against you? Like some higher power’s got their thumb on the scale, tipping the balance away from your dreams? Well, I’ve got news for you: it’s time to steal that scale and use it to weigh your own damn ambitions. Listen up. The “gods” – whether you see…

What I have realized as the base of all anxiety, procrastination, failures and lack of motivation is fear. To single out, its not the fear or beasts, ghost or failure. Neither it is the fear of your shortcomings or what-if’s. Its the fear of “unknown” that trumps all form of fears. Now the bigger question…

“I miss the smell of the fields in winter. It’s kind of metallic. I miss October, November smells. Trees. Wet piles of leaves.” The crisp air, tinged with frost, carrying whispers of dormant earth. I miss the way my breath would fog in front of me, a fleeting ghost in the early morning light. The…

Let’s cut the crap. Those fluffy bucket lists full of skydiving and learning French? They’re bullshit. Here are 40 things you actually need to do before 40 if you don’t want to wake up one day wondering where your life went. Remember, time’s ticking. You’ve got shit to do. Get to it.

Let’s cut the crap and face it: being soft doesn’t win you any prizes in this cutthroat world. If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve been burned one too many times by your own kindness. Well, buckle up, buttercup. It’s time for some harsh truths. First off, let’s get one thing straight: the world isn’t…

We’ve all been there – staring at a mountain of work, feeling overwhelmed, and deciding that maybe we’ll just start tomorrow. Or the next day. Or next week. For many of us, procrastination is an occasional annoyance. But for some, it’s a chronic problem that can seriously impact our personal and professional lives. If you…

There’s an India that doesn’t make it to the glossy travel brochures or the bustling social media feeds. It’s an India that whispers its stories in the quiet corners of dusty streets, in the wrinkled smiles of village elders, and in the dreams of children playing in monsoon puddles. This is the unpublished India –…

An average day. I log in to Twitter and there’s it, again. The decade old debacle on topic of reservation of jobs for local people. This time it channeled a series of hateful threads against the migrants and how they have disrupted the culture of the city. I get the anguish (no matter how politically…