A wise MoD bureaucrat in South Block over a decade ago: “We will never buy American fighter jets… helicopters, transport planes, yes, but fighters, never.” Why not? “Because they will never let you fight the wars you want to” #AeroIndia2023

Okay so that Miles Davis quote "if you hit a wrong note, it's the next note you play that determines if it's good or bad" applies to basically everything

No news channel will tell you that the devastation video from Uttarakhand is of cloudburst induced silt flow in the river. 20 million tonnes of excavated soil has been dumped in rivers of Uttarakhand, 56000 trees chopped, blasts all around, all for 12 meter highway of 889 kms.

Journalist: India says the U.S. buys Russian uranium and fertilizers while criticising India for buying Russian energy. Your response? Trump: I don’t know anything about that.

Donald Trump's hawkish and high handed approach in international politics will carve out a new world order. USA's international heft stemmed from its ability to influence without coercion or imposition of will. That has dramatically changed in the past one year.

I hear some people are accusing India of being “recalcitrant“. I say, far better to be recalcitrant, than to be tractable, submissive or acquiescent to injustice.

You should be having stronger opinions. The point isn’t to be louder or more stubborn it’s about sharpening your perception, deepening your thinking, and developing a clearer sense of what you actually believe. Conviction shouldn’t depend on how many people agree with you:

The older I get, the more I realize your energy creates your reality. Give your energy to stress, complaints, and negative people, they will grow. Give your energy to ambitions, gratitude, and positive people, they will grow. Your energy is your destiny. Choose wisely.

India's foreign policy manoeuvring is imperative in the prevailing scenario. With a belligerent Trump running the US, we cannot let our economic interests get sabotaged. If that means we have to, for the sake of optics, turn to our usual adversaries, so be it.

In foreign policy, there are no permanent friends and no permanent enemies. There are only permanent interests.

15 Hard Truths about Life: 1.

There are good reasons to criticise our courts and at times to do so sharply. Much of this stems from legitimate frustration with delays and unfair outcomes. But there is also a strain of criticism that seeks to delegitimise the judiciary entirely. It often presents itself as a

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s latest remark — “There are some countries we need to fix, like India and Brazil” — is not diplomacy but imperial arrogance. To reduce two of the world’s largest democracies to problems awaiting repair in Washington’s workshop captures the

Jyoti Saini, CA from India, currently working in the Netherlands, recently went viral after posting a video showing her office clearing out exactly at 5 PM. With a witty caption “Bring just one Indian manager here, and things will be different” She humorously pointed out the

Beijing had an AQI reading of 700+ in 2013. It was called an 'airpocalypse'. Schools were shut down. Flights were cancelled. Highways were closed. Hospitals overflowed. It was international embarrassment as foreign embassies issued health warnings and called Beijing

MBS claims the murder of Khashoggi was "a huge mistake and we're our doing our best that this doesn't happen again."

I’ve said a lot about the blatant misuse of reference powers that have brought us this “Opinion”, but here’s one more thing: through this, the SC has, primarily, vastly increased its own political power. Because what will happen now is that states whose bills are being stalled +

The wiser you become, the less you argue, because you begin to see that people defend identity, not truth. Silence replaces correction, not out of arrogance, but because explanation no longer feels worth it.

I partially agree with Nithin Kamath's views on doing an MBA. But I also think that MBAs from IIMs will always be of value, since employers want an institution of repute to certify the credentials of a person. It accords legitimacy in the job market.

Many organizations look for young, energetic, and forward-thinking people, folks who are smart, savvy, and in touch with the world, yet they expect them to follow outdated mindsets about work, like having no work-life balance and constantly grinding without pause.