It’s official: from September 22, 2025, the 56th GST Council, led by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, has done what we thought was a fantasy—slashing GST on individual health and life insurance premiums to 0%. That’s right, the 18% that inflated your policy cost is now zero. This is being seen as a landmark move under […]
There was a time when Israel had the sympathy of the world. Holocaust survivors, surrounded by hostile neighbors, a tiny nation fending for its very existence. David is fighting multiple Goliaths at once. That story is dead. Gaza Israel Conflict: From Resistance to Elimination Two years. That’s how long Israel has unleashed relentless war on […]
Welcome to Season 4 of Truth Shots with Kapil – where we don’t decorate conversations with buzzwords, and we don’t serve watered-down truths. We serve them raw. Episode 6 was a masterclass in career reality-checks. My guest, Kaushik Mitra, is the CFO of PepsiCo India and South Asia. A man who has spent decades in […]
Remember yesterday’s blog about how social media giants arm-twisted Nepal into revoking its ban? How it wasn’t the people winning, but Silicon Valley flexing its power over a small nation? Well, that was just Act One. Act Two is here, and it’s far darker. Nepal has now spiraled from tech addiction protests into something resembling […]
So Nepal tried to stand up. It asked Big Tech to do something as basic as opening accountability offices—something India, Brazil, and every large economy already forced them to do. The platforms didn’t like it. What followed wasn’t democracy, youth power, or freedom of expression. It was straight-up corporate muscle. Let’s not romanticize it. This […]
So, Uncle Sam has thrown another tantrum – US tariffs on India and Indian goods. It’s the diplomatic equivalent of a schoolyard bully demanding your lunch money. Only this time, the “kid” being targeted – India – isn’t scrawny anymore. We’re bulked up, confident, and not particularly impressed by the bully’s biceps. The American playbook […]
Another woman killed by her husband and in-laws in UP. Another breaking news ticker. Another panel discussion. Another outrage. And tomorrow… nothing. We’ll scroll to the next meme, the next cricket score, the next “India is shining” propaganda. But here’s the truth nobody wants to hear: This isn’t just one murder. This is the systematic […]
We live in a world obsessed with numbers. IQ scores, boardroom titles, paychecks, followers — we worship digits as if they are the final proof of success. But here’s a bitter pill: Einstein never even took an IQ test. Yet his ideas changed the course of humanity. So the real question isn’t how high your […]
Some words sound harmless. They sneak into conversations, make you feel like you’re doing something, and give others the illusion that you’re committed. But peel the mask off, and you’ll see two of the most destructive words in the English language – hoping and trying. Hoping is just outsourcing responsibility to the universe. It’s the […]
We’ve been sold a very romantic, very wrong idea of empathy. It’s not about imagining how someone feels. It’s about ensuring the other person feels that their feelings, their mood, their pain is being felt. That’s the difference between sympathy cards and real hugs. Between a “thoughts and prayers” tweet and sitting silently with a […]