When AI Fires Everyone, Who’s Left to Buy Anything?
Vikram Singh asked a seven-word question on a morning walk in Powai. It turned out to be the best summary of the biggest economic anxiety of 2026. Two economists at Penn and Boston University spent a whole paper proving he was right.
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The Airport That Never Loses Your Bag
A process can be copied. A checklist can be shared. But the thing that makes someone arrange a stranger’s bag at 4am, thirty years in, with nobody watching and no applause coming, that cannot be transferred in a training manual. It has to be believed. One airport understood this. The results speak for themselves. →
The Hall of Fame and the Forgotten Graveyard
The hall of fame has excellent lighting. The graveyard does not. Most of its residents were talented, ambitious, and completely convinced they were on the right track. Survivorship bias is not just about who we remember. It is about the incomplete story we build our strategies around.
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The Art of Letting Go of Things (When Things Won’t Let Go of You)
A dining table, a Texas ticket, a bright red perfume box. On why letting go of things is harder than acquiring them, and what it quietly costs us. →
What your IQ says about you. And what it doesn’t.
IQ began as a tool to help children. Alfred Binet did not design it to be lobbed across a press briefing. And yet, here we are. →
The Quiet Ones
Two wonderful people. Two quiet habits. No announcements, no posts, no applause. Just the thing, done. This is what sustainable living in India actually looks like.
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When the Mask Comes Off
Every mask in this photograph has a name underneath it. Ram. Surpanakha. Sita. The Ramayana knew something about this. So did Banksy. So did the man who invented Bitcoin. The mask is not the disguise. The mask is where the power comes from.
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Why Did We Believe the Story of the Seven Dogs?
Someone let the dogs out. The rest of us wrote the screenplay. The question is not why we believed it. The question is what we needed it to say. →
A Short Education in Coffee (Or: How a Simple Drink Taught Me I Knew Nothing)
From filter kaapi in a steel tumbler to Kopi Luwak in Bali, coffee turned out to be the most humbling education I never signed up for. Avvaiyar, the ancient Tamil poetess saw this coming. I did not. →
Rated, Surveyed, and Slightly Broken
From the Uber driver’s rating request to the airport washroom terminal, the five-point scale has quietly taken over everything. What happens when the number stops being a pointer and becomes the point? →
Someone Called Me Names
Someone called me a flâneur last week. I thanked her, because that seemed like the right thing to do. Then I went home and looked it up.
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The Man Who Planned His Own Ending
The man who understood endings better than anyone chose his own. Two years on, the question he leaves behind is not how to live longer. It is how to live well. →
Pay Attention
In German you gift attention. In Arabic it means waking up. In English, you pay it. What that says about how we think. →
Are you happy yet?
They gave happiness a day. Whoever decided this was being more honest than they perhaps intended. →
The Weight of Forever
I stood there and could not move. Hundreds of thousands of locks. Every size. Every colour. Each one carrying two names and one enormous hope. That this would last. That nothing would change. →