Suffering from the ‘so many books and so little time’ syndrome? Here are 5 books that you can spend your lazy winter afternoons with. Dragon Aunty Returns by Debeshi Gooptu  A Bengali woman meets a Punjabi mirchi in a swanky residential complex of Gurgaon. Mrinalini can’t tolerate the boisterous Punjabi...

I was ten or eleven years old when I decided I wanted to join the army. At the age of sixteen, I had already secured a seat in a medical college when I got the call letter giving me admission to the National Defence Academy (NDA). So I did the first semester of MBBS, then came home and convinced my parents to let me...

  It’s been just a few months of lockdown and our behaviour has turned completely different. In just a span of a couple of months, something as normal as going to watch a movie has become so dangerous. We have learnt lessons which have been very hard and these lessons are across health and wealth. Here are 3 lessons on...

  It doesn’t matter how old you are or where you come from or how many marks you scored in the last test. All of us can become heroes. Here is Twinkle Khanna talking about the inspiration behind her latest book ‘When I Grow Up I Want To Be…’, and what it takes to make the impossible possible.  “I hope some day...

वर्ष १९८४ मलकीत, शिबानी और अमन सचदेव, तीनों रेडियो पर दंगों की खबर सुन रहे थे। शिबानी का जी मुँह को आ रहा था यह सोच-सोच कर कि...

  “$1,000,000 in the bank isn’t the fantasy. The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom it supposedly allows.” Tim Ferriss wrote ‘The 4-Hour Work Week’ for all those tired of postponing their life until retirement, who instead want to live life large and in the moment, right now. He introduces a new way...

Arshia Sattar has a Ph.D. in classical Indian literature from the University of Chicago. She works with the Sanskrit epics and storytelling traditions of India. Her abridged translation of Valmiki’s Ramayana, published in Penguin Classics, is regarded as one of the definitive presentations of the epic in English....

  Since 1995, Prashant Desai has worked (finance and investing) with various entrepreneurs like Kishore Biyani (Future Group), Rakesh Jhunjhunwala (Rare), Jignesh Shah (FT) and now with Sameer Sain (Everstone). He has managed treasury assets of Rs 3000 cr besides risking investing into almost everything from fixed...

  The Big Thoughts of Little Luv narrates the story of the twins Luv and Kusha. Karan Johar brings into focus the challenges faced by parents and the differences imposed between boys and girls by the parents while raising them. Here is his take on how to raise gender sensitive kids –  Hi, my name is Karan Johar, and I...

We tend to think of burnout as an individual problem, solvable by “learning to say no,” more yoga, better breathing techniques, practicing resilience — the self-help list goes on. But the evidence is mounting that applying personal, band-aid solutions to an epic and rapidly evolving workplace phenomenon may be...