November 2025
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Hard Work and Smart Work: Two Wings of the Same Bird
We often hear that hard work is the key to success. Push longer, endure more, stay persistent—this is the mantra many of us grew up with. On the other hand, the modern world celebrates efficiency: work smart, not hard; think strategically; choose the shortest path with the largest gain. But somewhere between these two philosophies Continue reading
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The Comfort of Small Rituals
We often chase big moments—achievements, breakthroughs, the next milestone. But life, I’ve realised, is mostly made of tiny, repeated acts of care. The little routines that ask for almost nothing yet give us a sense of continuity, grounding, and peace. In a world that moves faster than our thoughts can settle, it’s the smallest rituals Continue reading
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When the World Goes Digitally Dark
This morning, I woke up thinking it would be just another ordinary day. A cup of tea, a few emails, some writing, and the steady hum of the digital world carrying me forward. Instead, I walked straight into what I can only call a digital outage day—a day where every single thing I tried to Continue reading
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When Success Belongs to the Individual and Failure Belongs to Society
“Success was individual achievement; failure was a social problem.”— Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine This single line captures something uncomfortable, something we often avoid acknowledging: the asymmetry in how society distributes credit and blame. We love the narrative of the self-made individual. We celebrate the idea that success springs entirely from Continue reading
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Beyond the Curve
There are roads we take because they are familiar, predictable, and safe. And then there are roads—silent, winding, disappearing gently behind a bend—inviting us into the unknown. They ask nothing of us except courage. They promise nothing except possibility. However, beyond such curve also exists out fears. Fear often dictates the course of our lives Continue reading
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The Beautiful Cost of Being Alive
There is a simple, almost brutal equation that life quietly teaches us: Desire is directly proportional to pain. The more deeply we want something, the more intensely we suffer in its pursuit. A small wish brings a small ache. A burning desire brings a fire of restlessness, uncertainty, fear, and longing. And sometimes, it even Continue reading
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20 years since my ‘First Step’ into the Stock Market
Today—24 November 2025—marks a significant milestone in my life. Exactly 20 years ago, on this date in 2005, I made my first stock purchase. I was still a teenager then, and investing in the stock market was far from common at that age. But I already had opened a demat account, and my father lent Continue reading
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Day 300: The Quiet Victory of Showing Up
On 26 January 2025, I made a simple New Year’s resolution—one that felt small enough to attempt, yet big enough to change me. I decided to start a blog and publish one post every single day for the next 365 days. Not for fame, not for a record, not to prove anything to the world, Continue reading
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Where We Begin the Same
Strip away the noise—the status, the professions, the accents, the clothes, the backgrounds—and you will find that at the most basic level, every human being is the same. We all emerge into the world with the same fragile breath, the same need for warmth, the same hunger for love and recognition. At the foundation, we Continue reading
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The World Is Showbiz, and Everyone Is a Salesman
There’s a strange, unspoken truth about the world that we rarely admit out loud: life is one giant showbiz, and every single person on this planet is, in one way or another, a salesman. Some sell products.Some sell ideas.Some sell dreams.Some sell versions of themselves. But all of us—every day—are selling something. Think about it.A Continue reading
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