Our air conditioner’s stabilizer conked off recently. When I got the local electrician to check why the a/c wasn’t working, he figured that it was the stabilizer and that we need to change it. I asked him if he could get a…

One year without full-time employment! Wow! The first year to not live based on the city’s rhythms of when one should wake up, drive to work, go to gym etc. I get to choose when I want to do them. The first…

One persistent thread I refer to in my workshops on personal branding is the decline of appointment-based content consumption vs. on-demand content consumption (and how it affects content consumption in general and how we, as individuals, can take advantage of this evolution…

Karan Johar was in a mighty big soup recently when he ‘Liked’ a tweet that was abusive to Shah Rukh Khan and praising Kesari, co-produced by Karan’s production house. It went so viral within a few hours that the hashtag #ShameOnKaranJohar started…

I’m not a fan of advertising that demeans or puts down rivals of a brand. I had written about it in context when was at its lowest point, in a New York Times half-page ad no less. The main reason for my…