This weekend a 38-year-old man who barely runs, became the most prolific scorer in the history of the FIFA World Cup. Lionel Messi opened Argentina’s campaign last week with a hat-trick against Algeria, drawing level with Miroslav Klose’s all-time record of 16. Six days later, against Austria in Dallas, he missed a penalty in the fifth minute. He then quietly corrected the record himself - a first-time finish in the thirty-eighth minute, and a scrambling injury-time poke from six yards that...

There is a certain undercurrent of indifferent cruelty that runs through Indian corporate life, and it shows up most starkly in how we treat the people we owe money to. We call it “process”, “finance cycle”, “system delays”. But underneath the jargon sits something older and uglier. It is the ingrained societal belief that if you are waiting to be paid, you must be lower in the food chain. How are You coping with being a VENDOR? On the phone, on an email, or in meetings, these words you...

Happiness. Sadness. Helplessness. Doubts. Hopes. Aspirations. For three long decades he was a part of all of it. Wherever we were in the world, I would pick up a phone when I wanted to hear his voice. No matter how long it had been since he heard my voice, whatever the number I was dialing in from, the excitement in his voice never changed: ‘How are you? How is Madam? Are you in Bombay? What time are you both coming?’ He was our friend, our philosopher, our confidante, the safe rock on which...