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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
It is fashionable to lament about not wanting to grow up. I find that the best moments of growing up are reclaiming one’s childishness. Childlike-ness, if you will.
Editor's note: The middle years of one’s life feel like a wide, expansive plateau. We are the parents of young children and the children of elderly parents. Months rush by leaving barely a memory of what we did with them, yet some sun-streaked evenings stay with us like bookmarks. Mornings stretch to accommodate solitude and unexpected conversations. Words linger, like shadows that stretch with the fading light. “What if I have misunderstood myself my entire life,” I wrote on a page in my diary a few years ago. It was a time when I was beginning to identify how much I was debilitated by shame and self-judgement. I wanted to calm down my inner critic and re-parent her. I was learning to practise acceptance and generosity towards myself. Our middle years are a time to consolidate one’s experiences and emotions. Our life events have bounced about and been back and forth and now is the time to zoom out and see the patterns in our journey so far. We need to take stock and recalibrate our expectations. My elder brother lives in …
It is fashionable to lament about not wanting to grow up. I find that the best moments of growing up are reclaiming one’s childishness. Childlike-ness, if you will.
Editor's note: The middle years of one’s life feel like a wide, expansive plateau. We are the parents of young children and the children of elderly parents. Months rush by leaving barely a memory of what we did with them, yet some sun-streaked evenings stay with us like bookmarks. Mornings stretch to accommodate solitude and unexpected conversations. Words linger, like shadows that stretch with the fading light. “What if I have misunderstood myself my entire life,” I wrote on a page in my diary a few years ago. It was a time when I was beginning to identify how much I was debilitated by shame and self-judgement. I wanted to calm down my inner critic and re-parent her. I was learning to practise acceptance and generosity towards myself. Our middle years are a time to consolidate one’s experiences and emotions. Our life events have bounced about and been back and forth and now is the time to zoom out and see the patterns in our journey so far. We need to take stock and recalibrate our expectations. My elder brother lives in …
Indian youngsters are experimenting with newer D2C brands like never before. Bewakoof’s early success and its 2022 acquisition by retail giant Aditya Birla Fashion should have given it the edge, but the company has been left behind.
The company is now just another aggregator in the budget hotel sector. And the shift does make sense; OYO wants to cut losses and its India business isn’t all that important anymore.
The cargo arm, carved out of SpiceJet on the basis of the promise it showed during the pandemic, is now more appendage and less the trump card it was cracked up to be.
Indian youngsters are experimenting with newer D2C brands like never before. Bewakoof’s early success and its 2022 acquisition by retail giant Aditya Birla Fashion should have given it the edge, but the company has been left behind.
The company is now just another aggregator in the budget hotel sector. And the shift does make sense; OYO wants to cut losses and its India business isn’t all that important anymore.
The cargo arm, carved out of SpiceJet on the basis of the promise it showed during the pandemic, is now more appendage and less the trump card it was cracked up to be.
