Moonballs from Planet Earth

  Nine years ago, the historian Ramachandra Guha asked the question – “why is it that companies like the Tatas, the Mahindras, or Infosys h...

Virat Kohli clearly sets the tone for the Indian Cricket Team He needs more leaders around him, who are NOT like him Should members of a tea...

Lord Shiva  Also known as Triambakesh - the God with the third eye Why does Shiva have a third eye? To see the most important things. An...

Marie Kondo, the Japanese decluttering guru, wearing a signature white dress Dear Marie, I love KonMari. Your world famous decluttering me...

Team India at the Gabba with the Border-Gavaskar Trophy  Victory at the Gabba! What an amazing win! What incredible attitude, spunk, guts an...

Julian Assange, photographed outside Ellingham Hall Wikileaks has radically changed the way I see our world. Not the way I see war,...

Aga Radwanska @ Wimbledon Aga Raswanska now endorses Cheesecake Factory.  Refreshingly, she actually likes the Cheesecake Factory. S...

Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO Since Satya Nadella’s appointment as Microsoft's CEO, my Facebook news feed and email inbox have been...

Ben Bernanke, Mervyn King and D Subbarao ought to play more Monopoly. That would teach them a thing or two about the perils of an expans...

I’m homesick. I want to go home, to a place where I feel safe, to a place where I know stuff, like I know that democracy is good, ...

Dom Barton of McKinsey & Company I'm on my first day at a new job. I've just joined McKinsey and Company, one of the world...

Daniel Barenboim conducting the West Eastern Divan Orchestra The BBC Proms, on TV this week, features the West Eastern Divan Orchestra...

Came across another classically inspired poem. This time, I didn't randomly spot it on the tube. It came to my inbox in a farewell e...

Ox Travels has been resident on my bedside table for several months now. This is a collection of stories by travel writers, each story ...

"Black Swan" is business-speak for a single observation that demolishes a previously plausible theory.  The phrase comes fro...

F.R.I.E.N.D.S was more than a successful TV serial, it was a cultural phenomenon. I think it had such a big impact, beyond what one wo...

"Why don't we teach our children compassion?".  Roshi Joan Halifax asked this question in the TED talk I posted about l...

Jodi Kantor's new book The Obamas reports that "Barack refuses to miss dinner with his family more than twice a week".  ...

"Follow your dream" is advice I have frequently received. This is also advice I have given multiple times. However, in most cir...

தென் பாண்டி சீமையிலே தேரோடும் வீதியிலே மான் போல வந்தவனே யார்   அடித்தாரோ யார்   அடித்தாரோ These lyrics are from the theme song o...