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Nishad Shah in Just out of college

Jul 15, 2017

#2: “Hey, let’s catch up today?”

It’s 6:30 PM, Friday. I’m sitting at the client office. The client office is empty as usual — I didn’t…

Nishad Shah in Just out of college

Aug 26, 2017

#8: Wicked weekends

“What did you do on the weekend?” comes a question on every Monday morning from some of my colleagues piercing my heart like a dart. Sometimes there’s a good answer, most of the times I find euphemisms for telling that I like sleeping like a sloth on weekends. But what interests me is how…

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Nishad Shah in Just out of college

Dec 16, 2018

#38: The middle-class trap?

In economics, there’s a concept called middle-income trap — countries that stay in a certain GNP range for a significantly long period of time. There could be multiple factors for the same, but a simplified version would say that they were able to extract value from their natural…

Nishad Shah in Just out of college

Oct 7, 2017

#14: Destiny Dependencies

Imagine you are running a sprint. You train, prepare yourself and on the D-day, try to give your best…

Nishad Shah in Just out of college

Jul 30, 2017

#4: The pain and power of commute

“Distance is the only true constraint we have in life”, I blurted out in one of those conversations…

Nishad Shah in Just out of college

Aug 3, 2019

Random walks

Bangalore is one conflicted place. On one hand, you have the urban mess — the poor road and public transport infrastructure leading to…

Nishad Shah in Just out of college

Dec 17, 2017

#24: Jobs

It’s a packed lift on Friday. People are barely managing to stand straight without smelling the adjacent person. Even worse, the lift is…

Nishad Shah in Just out of college

Aug 5, 2017

#5: Small wins

Life has always been about the pursuit of big wins till now. JEE was the first of the major slams, IIMA, second and BCG, third, coupled with a few others interspersed in between. Big wins were all that I lived for and dreamt of.

Nishad Shah in Just out of college

Aug 13, 2017

#6: Moody, eh?

It’s 8:20 am. I wake up reluctantly at a knock on my room. It’s Ritesh, still rubbing his eyes, reminding me of the Machine Design class at 8:30. I give out a frown, we both smile and go back into our respective rooms to sleep. Decisions taken without speaking a word, making them seem so trivial. It’s…

Nishad Shah in Just out of college

Dec 9, 2018

#37: बेंगलुरु और बम्बई (Bangalore and Bombay)

(Followed by transliteration and translation in English)

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