Yesterday’s Wimbledon semi-final left me with a sense of disappointment. Not because Jannik Sinner won (he thoroughly deserved to!). But because, for the first time in nearly two decades, I found myself watching a champion without instinctively feeling for the larger story behind him. I admired the precision, the clean ball-striking and the control with […]
As another year turns, I find myself at a familiar crossroads. Why make a brand-new New Year’s resolution at all? Why invest so much energy in a reset? Why not just keep going with last year’s resolution—the one that is still unfinished, unresolved, or followed only when guilt kicks in? This harmless question hides a […]
Two+ years of posting on LinkedIn.What changed, what stayed, and what’s fluid. In June 2023, I wrote an article reflecting on six months of posting almost daily on LinkedIn. At the time, it felt like a mildly obsessive experiment. It’s December 2025 now. I’ve posted a lot more since then. Consider this as an update […]
The World Inequality Report 2026 is out. As every year, it has generated the predictable reactions: concern about poverty, outrage about concentration, debates about redistribution. All necessary, all important. But reading it this year, my attention drifted elsewhere – not to the poor, but to the rich. Specifically, to how differently the rich behave among […]
A week in the world of artificial intelligence feels like a decade. Just when we’re getting used to one breakthrough — whether it’s OpenAI’s Sora or Google’s Gemini — another floods the feeds. The Gartner Hype Cycle itself seems to be lagging. We’ve been through our share of hype before — virtual reality, the metaverse, […]
In the wild forests of Indian markets—where tradition jostles with tech and the consumer landscape changes by the hour—brands are facing a new survival test. It’s no longer enough to be fast or wise, nimble or deep. You must be both. Enter the ‘Ashwagaja’; a metaphorical hybrid born from the best traits of two powerful […]
Chronos personifies time. Like most Greek gods, he is depicted as an old, wise man with a long beard. He (he/she/it) represents the inexorable passage of time and its progression from the past to future. He (he/she/it) is the symbol of a powerful, inevitable force that governs the life cycle of all beings and the […]
It is a simple thought. Next generation marketing can be understood better by creating an equivalence between a techstack and a brandstack A tech stack refers to a combination of technologies and tools used by a company to build and operate its digital services. It consists of layers, each serving a specific purpose in the […]
Branding folklore says that good brands are akin to religions. At least, they feel like one at their utopian best. And, hence, it follows that we can learn good brand practices from how religious theologies are promoted. On the surface, most religions have gods (or god-like characters), some defining scriptures, a cohort of selected priests […]
It has been six months since I started posting daily on LinkedIn, except for the weekends. It started out as fun, became a bit stressful along the way, and has become a habit of late. So, what have I learnt till now on this journey? It started on a lark. I was reading a lot […]