Saying no to Maida (all-purpose flour)

Living in India made it easier

It’s harder to be kind than to be clever.

Through a simple childhood story, Jeff Bezos illustrates a very powerful lesson.

“It’s harder to be kind than to be clever. It’s the difference between gifts and choices. Cleverness is a gift. Kindness is a choice.”

For the last mile, be prepared to run a different race!

Even the most complex ideas can be made simple and relevant with the help of a story or an example. This is illustrated beautifully by Sendhil Mullainathan, a behavioral economist whose TED talk describes social problems that remain…

Good Boy, Bad Boy.

Child educators believe that expressions such as “good boy” or “bad boy” are not recommended when praising or correcting a child. All children are good; it’s their specific behavior that can be perceived as good and bad. Rather than directing your words at the person (child) direct it at the…

A Request to the Dean and the Admissions Committee of Wharton, HBS, MIT Sloan, Stanford, and other global b-schools.

I’d like to start by narrating a pattern that I’ve observed lately.

Why I stopped using the phrase “This is not rocket science.”

If you say, “My idea did not work out.”

Reply: I can see why it won’t work. Blah Blah…[An explanation follows]

How to get good grades in school?

For the majority of my school and undergraduate years, I was a top 5% student. I don’t think I was exceptionally intelligent. I sucked at pretty much any skill that is socially believed to be a prerequisite for academic success — studying late at night, multitasking…

My Washing Machine Diet and how it has finally liberated me.

The innocent question I could not answer

The North-Eastern part of India is very different from the rest of the country. Not…

Making decisions: Big picture vs. Tiny picture

Recently I did a small exercise: I reflected on every important decision I have made both on the personal and work front, and pin-pointed why I did it — was it because the big picture was working out for me or was it the tiny picture. And more…