The Mentor Who Taught Me to Lead Before I Became a Leader
Some teachers enter our lives through classrooms. Others appear at critical moments in our careers and quietly shape the professionals, leaders and human beings we eventually become. Ashok...
Janmejay Rathore
Four Decades Later, I Faced the Same Fear Differently
Some fears return not to punish us, but perhaps to give us another chance to experience them differently. My recent surgery taught a lifelong control freak an unexpected lesson in surrender, trust and gratitude.
Prompt Injection: The Hidden AI Security Risk
A malicious instruction does not need to look like malware. It can sit quietly inside an email, a web page, a PDF, a spreadsheet, a CRM note, or...
GCCs 2.0: From Cost Centers to Global Innovation Engines
Over the last two decades, Global Capability Centers (GCCs) have undergone a remarkable transformation. What began as a strategy to reduce costs and provide operational support has evolved...
Forward Deployed Engineers: The AI Era’s Fastest Growing Tech Role
Every major technology wave creates new roles. The internet gave us webmasters. Cloud computing created DevOps engineers. Big Data created data scientists. Artificial Intelligence is now creating another...
Michael Eisner: Creativity-in-a-Box and the Forgotten Case for Micro Management
Modern corporate culture worships two ideas: unlimited creative freedom, and completely hands-off leadership. Michael Eisner challenged both. During his legendary tenure at The Walt Disney Company, Eisner helped...
AI Is Making Developers Faster. But Is It Making Them Better Engineers?
I was reading a discussion among software engineers recently about AI-assisted coding. What stood out was not the excitement around productivity. It was the growing concern around understanding....
Connect TradingView Desktop to Claude on Windows: Setup Guide for Indian Markets
Turn your TradingView charts into a live, queryable surface for Claude. Ask in plain English, get analysis, scoring, Pine Script edits, and morning briefs run directly against your live TradingView session. This guide covers both Claude Desktop and Claude Code on Windows, with sample configs tuned for NSE/BSE workflows.
From thought to darshan: A Himalayan calling fulfilled
At the beginning of this year, a quiet thought crossed my mind… “Perhaps visiting Kainchi Dham and the sacred cave of Mahavatar Babaji might require another lifetime.” Life,...
The myth of the 8-hour block: Why modern sleep is a recent invention
For most of human history, "8 hours of uninterrupted sleep" didn't exist. If you find yourself waking up at 2:00 AM feeling wide awake, you aren’t broken - you’re likely experiencing a biological echo of your ancestors.