Thirteen days in September is at once a window into history and a lesson in negotiation. Lawrence Wright has successfully brought the tensions of the 1970s Middle East to life and in the process he has also shown what courage can do. The book is based on the thirteen days long negotiation between Egypt…
A question to all the product managers, when you are building a new product what is more important to you – Acquiring Users/Growth or, Engagement? Nir Eyal in his book “Hooked – How to build habit forming products” says that if you want your product to sustain then your focus should be on Engagement….
Not too long ago the journey to Leadership position in a organization depended on how much experience you have gained in your domain. A factory worker became a foreman and then became a supervisor and so on, over a period of employment as he (it was typically a He) kept gaining experience and perfecting…
It has been a gap of an year between this post and my last. The philosopher went on a learning journey of a lifetime and the gentleman got caught up in the web of life. I have no other way to explain it. Last year while I was looking for opportunities to learn and…
I am made of light. I am shaped as a songbird and I am sitting on the top of a tree. There is a nest of songbirds on the branches of the tree below me. In that nest, an egg trembled, then cracked a little and then split. He came out and opened his…
While going through Sushant’s body of work, in his remembrance, I watched PK again recently. This post assumes that you have watched PK or at least know about the story. All the discussions I had with friends and family members about the movie and what it represented when it was released came flooding through…
Once upon a time, there lived an angry lion in the Garhwal region of North India. No one knew why the lion was angry. Anyone who crossed his path was killed. It seemed as if terrible death herself had taken a form and descended upon the earth. His terror was spread across all the…
I was at the picturesque beach of Puri, looking out to the ocean. It was late afternoon and the beach was relatively empty of people. A couple of families were around and they were taking refuge from the afternoon sun by playing with the ocean waves coming in. I was sitting under the shade…
Last week, a friend suggested that I should watch a debate between Javed Akhtar and Tarek Fatah that happened recently. The debate is available here. During the discussion, Javed Akhtar raised a point about the Ashwamedh and said it is not practical that similar to our past, India will leave a horse in Nepal…
The boy’s name was Santiago. This is how the one of the greatest books published in our times begins. A fable about following your destiny and finding fulfilment. In short, the story is about Santiago going on a quest to find a treasure. He crosses continents and a desert, falls in love, meets an…