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You pay taxes. Then you pay again. Then again. This is not an accident.
Vehicle taxes in India are not the whole problem. They are just the most visible layer of it. Start with a simple analogy. One that has nothing…
Shubham SolankiRead article
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I left my doctorate and six years of teaching. Here is what that actually cost.
I completed my doctorate in January 2024. Six years of teaching had come before it. Lecture halls, marked papers, students who called me by a name that…
Dr. Shalu ChopraRead article
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Yayati spent a thousand years chasing enough. He never found it.
Kama Purushartha, the third of the four aims of life, is the one nobody fully warns you about. Not because it is forbidden. Because it does not…
Navneet ShuklaRead article
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Your brain does not know where you end. It is always guessing.
Body ownership is not as fixed as it feels. Your brain is deciding, right now, what belongs to you and what does not. It does this constantly,…
Syed HammadRead article
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What I learnt from getting Chiang Mai completely wrong
Chiang Mai travel was not what I thought it would be. And I had been in Thailand long enough to think I knew what to expect. I…
Navneet ShuklaRead article
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What living in London actually feels like. Nobody warned me.
London arrived in summer and it did not apologise for itself. Everything was alive and loud and slightly too much. The streets felt like they were performing.…
Navneet ShuklaRead article
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Dharkot village sat above the clouds and below the noise.
I arrived in Dharkot village on a Thursday afternoon when clouds hung so low they brushed the tin roofs, turning the village into something half-real, half-dream. The…
Mudita ShuklaRead article
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For most men, the question is never “how do you feel?”
It is "how are you doing?" And doing means money. Status. Output. Whether the numbers are moving in the right direction. Men mental health conversations rarely start…
Shaniya NazRead article
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The gym was not about my body. It was the only hour that was mine.
There is a version of yourself you carry into motherhood. And then there is the version that comes out the other side. They are not the same…
Aparna RRead article
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Work life balance is not something you are bad at.
You finish the day behind. You eat dinner while checking one last thing. You tell yourself you will rest this weekend, and then the weekend arrives and…
Shaniya NazRead article
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What Thailand quietly teaches you when you finally stop being a tourist
Everyone you speak to in Thailand seems genuinely delighted to see you. Cheerful. Warm. Excited. The smile arrives before the conversation does. It took me longer than…
Navneet ShuklaRead article
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Are you outsourcing your thinking? Here is what you lose when you do.
There is a question worth sitting with before the next time you open an AI tool. Is this helping me think, or is it thinking instead of…
Dr. Shalu ChopraRead article