A story from ancient India that might explain the folklore of the Goddess Durga. There’s a story documented in ancient Indian texts and it goes something like this. Over 3,000 years ago, the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent was settled by Indo-Aryan tribes along the western Ganges plain. Collectively…

The trend of Gen Z leaving cities for the countryside has been gaining momentum in recent years. This generation, born between the mid-1990s and early 2010s, is known for its preference for experiences over material possessions and a desire to lead a more sustainable lifestyle. As a result, many young…

The bike review content landscape is horrible. Apparently anyone and everyone out there with an opinion feels the need to amplify their ‘expertise’. Back in 2004, when I bought my first motorcycle, I didn’t really do too much research. There was a guy selling a well-used Yamaha RX-100 and I…

It’s not about what you can buy — “Don’t let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat…” That’s the philosophy Robert De Niro’s bank-robber character lives by in the 1995 movie Heat. It’s not just great advice for a bank robber — but possibly one of the greatest…

The economic benefits incentivize a lack of creative innovation. — In 2018, having worked for a little over a decade in advertising in India, the lure of the Dirham combined with a lack of taxes took me to work for an ad agency in Dubai. I remember my first few weeks as I went around the town taking in the…

What inspired The Statesperson Growing up in the 80's, like most urban middle-class kids of working parents in India, my introduction to politics was through overheard snippets of conversations the adults were having during election season. And politicians were people who were in the news for the wrong reasons —…

Access to fresh food is, in itself, not a new problem. It’s simply a problem that’s accelerated and become more consequential due to the pandemic. Mobility restrictions, gaps in food delivery systems coupled with panic buying and hoarding has pushed up food prices and affected the availability of fresh vegetables…

The advent of vaccines for COVID-19 let us breathe easy for a while. And while the second wave of the pandemic scorches through the world, we’re rushing to solve the logistics around manufacture and delivery. It’s a matter of time, and while the human toll will be high, we’ll get…

2020 introduced us to something we referred to as the “New Normal”. The global pandemic changed the way we functioned at a very basic level. A year into the New Normal, we can see that it’s actually a lot more than just masking-up, social distancing and working-from-home. It’s become a…