The Melian Dialogue
What Athens told Melos about power and justice, and why principles last only when something sustains them.
Entrepreneurship
What running a business teaches: failure, luck, habits, learning, and holding on to your principles.
"You got lucky"
Why the sentence stings entrepreneurs, what luck really does to a business, and what isn't luck at all.
True expertise does not exist
We are all learning, all the time, and what a program at IIM Ahmedabad taught me about it.
How I lost more than 2 crores and 5 years, but still profited
A reverse osmosis membrane plant that never worked, the money and years it cost, and what the failure taught.
Want to break a tough habit?
Old patterns can't be erased, but new ones can take over. What it takes is the discipline to stay true to your word.
A very special teacher
Watching my father go through the stormiest phases of his business, and the lesson in resilience it gave me.
A contrarian view: Bhagat Singh and the will to win
A freedom that is only asked for is rarely given. What Bhagat Singh's stand says about will, in a nation's struggle and in business.