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5 Jun 2025
Part 2: Creating a Soul-tribe How do you create a web of friendships who will cushion you? Here is your life right now. You live in a building or a villa community with about 60 other homes. You kn…

26 May 2025
Part 1: Who Are the People You Call in a Crisis? Who are your lifelines? I don’t know about you but post-Covid, I find myself losing friends. People in their fifties and sixties, and sometimes even…

23 May 2025
About the Author : Monisha Eadala is an India Policy Advisor at WisdomCircle. She is a public policy analyst with expertise in international development and environmental management. With a backgro…

1 Apr 2025
The Difference Between Character And Achievement One changes you fundamentally and the other improves you. One of the continuous questions that surrounds the Trump presidency has to do with his cha…

21 Mar 2025
About the Author : Amit Dasgupta is the founder and President of Kaalp Consulting, specialising in senior leadership coaching and leadership consulting for business performance improvement. With ov…

1 Mar 2025
What’s Holding You Back? Mental models that don’t serve you and that end up being fallacies I was having coffee with a friend – an engineer in his forties. We were at the Taj West End when the foun…

24 Feb 2025
About the Author : Monisha Eadala is an India Policy Advisor at WisdomCircle. She is a public policy analyst with expertise in international development and environmental management. With a backgro…

11 Feb 2025
What Keeps A Marriage Going? The Anna Karenina principle as it applies to marriages. As I write this, I am trying to save a marriage, all the while wondering if it is worth it. The couple is close…

22 Jan 2025
About the Author : Monisha Eadala is an India Policy Advisor at WisdomCircle. She is a public policy analyst with expertise in international development and environmental management. With a backgro…

6 Jan 2025
Ten New Year Resolutions to Help Your Future Self One of the things that people keep talking about these days is “future-proofing,” particularly with respect to AI. But as Darwin demonstrated centu…

5 Dec 2024
Discover Shoba Narayan’s take on gray divorce in India and the power of post-retirement skills for independence and personal growth

6 Nov 2024
How to Balance Privilege and Intersectionality If you are reading this, you are likely a high-functioning super-bright person, which means, at least according to your kids, that you are also “judge…

3 Oct 2024
Fearless after 50: how women over 50 are taking on the world “My husband is a busy lawyer and if I don’t stay home with the kids, the house will fall apart.” “When my husband joined a fintech firm,…

9 Sep 2024
The Dance Between Ego and Soul as You Age This column is about a simple fact: as you age, the ego becomes both stronger and more fragile. This plays out in ways that can both strengthen and sabotag…

5 Aug 2024
How much net worth do you need to retire? The recent Ambani wedding brought out a lot of conversations about spending, splurging, taste, excess, celebrity-chasing, and the whole ‘show-off’ culture…