Bedlam created by resignation of HDFC bank Chairman

Mr. Atanu Chakraborty, the Part-time Chairman and Independent Director of HDFC Bank, has tendered his resignation abruptly, citing concerns over operational practices that he deemed inconsistent with his personal values…

How great leaders move between both

I once coached a senior leader who looked like leadership itself. Crisp suit, crisp speech, crisp opinions. In meetings, people sat up straighter when he spoke. After one particularly “successful”…

It was never really about the politics

It only looks like it is. Ask anyone what is wrong with the world today. You will get a political answer. Here is why that answer, however understandable, is incomplete. …

What a month!

As a viral meme says, March isn’t over yet, but what a month it’s been. We’re living through the biggest oil shock ever, and stock market carnage. Why? Because US…

Word, as it were

For some time now, neuroscientists worldwide have been peering into brains to see how reading from books compares with screen reading, even if you are reading an e-book or e-paper.…

Awareness of death should not make us gloomy

By Swami Sukhabodhananda Life is a sacred interval between two profound events, birth and death. At birth, we enter this world innocent, unburdened by fear, untouched by anxiety. A newborn…

A beginner’s guide to conducting an affair

Invisibility cloaks, and trains arriving at Platform No. Nine and Three-Quarters, should ideally be a part of the extramarital universe. Affairs run on adrenaline and banana peels. One slip, and…

Kids & smartphones: The smart solution

A jury in California, recently, did something courts rarely do: it looked at the internet, and saw, not a medium, but a machine. It found Meta and YouTube negligent –…

The molecule India has been waiting for

Somewhere in a Pune laboratory, two methanol molecules are being stripped of a water molecule and fused into something quietly significant. The product is dimethyl ether, DME. The process is…

An analysis of the return on investment of laziness

These are some of the things on which people do not waste time, or these are some things they claim as time wasters. A hurdle to them skyrocketing their career…