Galgotias University’s abrupt exit from the India AI Impact Summit 2026 is more than just a headline.It is a moment of reflection for anyone building in education, innovation, or nation-led ecosystems. Because here’s the uncomfortable truth:Ambition without precision can backfire—especially on national platforms. The Story Behind the Incident Galgotias has not built small. With an […]
Reverse thinking and reverse calculation — that’s what entrepreneurship has taught me. I often begin from the outcome and walk backwards. Perhaps that’s why dreams feel so familiar to me. They are unfinished thoughts, completing themselves without permission. A few weeks ago, I was facilitating a CBP session on life skills with in-service teachers. The
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When my father left us, the world did not end, but something very quiet inside me did. It felt like someone had switched off a familiar background sound – a voice that had always been there, even when we weren’t talking. Suddenly, the house was the same, the streets were the same, my work was
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“Why do I wake up with this sinking dread, forcing myself to that office every single day? This relocation didn’t just move me—it shattered everything I’d built over more than a decade: my cozy home, my easy routine, my peace. Now it’s back to square one—squeezed on crowded buses, dragging my exhausted body through the
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To the grieving parents of Shourya Patil and sisters Nishika (16), Prachi (14), Pakhi (12): Your love was real, yet it slipped through exhausted fingers. To the teachers at St. Columba’s and the Ghaziabad family: You nurture in silos—lessons planned, homes provided—but in the vital interplay, signals crossed, and our children paid. NCRB data screams
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For more than a century, humanity had a quiet superpower. Each generation got sharper than the one before it. Better food. Better schools. Better medicine. IQ scores climbed year after year, so reliably that psychologists gave it a name: the Flynn Effect. Then something strange happened. Around the time smartphones slipped into backpacks and bedrooms,
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The Anecdote That Changed My Coaching Practice I’m nervous every time I take an Uber or Ola. In 2021, an accident. A distracted driver. Since then, I talk to every driver to keep them alert, engaged. “What are your working hours? How many hours daily? Do you send your children to school?” One afternoon, a
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In January 2026, CBSE did something rare. It acknowledged, in writing, that Indian schools are not just academic factories. They are emotional pressure cookers. The mandate was blunt: Every CBSE-affiliated secondary and senior secondary school must appoint two full-time counsellors. One for socio-emotional wellbeing. One for career guidance. Ratio: 1 counsellor per 500 students. Timeline:
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It was 2014-15. I sat across from the registrar of a top university, sipping chai, dreaming up ways to spark startup fever on campus. We laughed about young dreamers pitching wild ideas. Then his face turned serious. “Mark my words,” he said, “the middle rung of jobs—those steady 9-to-5 doers—will vanish. Only top strategists and
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It was an ordinary evening until my phone rang.One sentence erased nearly two decades. “Ma’am, you were right.” There was no excitement in his voice. No relief either. Just steadiness.The kind that comes when a career stops demanding justification. It was Anku. Back in 2006, Anku was already earning well. Fresh out of college, he
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