“I was terrible at it. There were 25 students in the class. I would be the 26th if there was a ranking for that. I used to […]
“I was terrible at it. There were 25 students in the class. I would be the 26th if there was a ranking for that. I used to […]
It was just yesterday that I was having this conversation with a friend. She asked me, ‘why don’t you hire a cook?’ And it’s a question a few of my colleagues have asked too. And quite frankly, irrespective of whatever excuse I may give for not hiring, the honest answer may be that I have started enjoying cooking. I am not talking about the creative art of cooking when the right mood arrives. I am talking about cooking as a daily habit. The everyday cooking. An Indian household churns out Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and sometimes even an evening snack. There was a time it blew my mind to think even it’s humanly possible. Spending so much time every day cooking. What drives us to do this otherwise mundane, uneventful, and tedious act? And I must admit that there was a time when I used to view it just as dull, a necessary evil. When did this change?
These were the days when wells were dug in homes by hand for water supply. Depending on the terrain, each well can go as deep as 25 […]
At 18, with my transition to college life, I demanded a regular flow of pocket money from my mother, the family’s matriarch. She refused without blinking an […]
“You know, when you show me the case studies, it all looks so beautiful and logical. But when I do it, it’s messy and ugly. I know […]
March 2019. We were working on a couple of ideas to pivot our organization from a boutique strategy consulting firm to a scale-oriented business. Amidst this ideation, […]
In the late 1990s, I studied marketing and advertising in business school. And I loved the concepts and case studies that I was learning. While I was […]
“Give them what they want.” As I was learning about creating courses for our school – HumanWorks, I spent a lot of time learning about how to create […]
“Don’t you love reading about ourselves in the marketing magazines? We sound so smart. Like we knew all the answers.” I was in the middle of a […]
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