We have Google. We have ChatGPT. We have YouTube. We have courses teaching us how to use AI, and courses teaching us how to use those courses. Basically, information is no longer the problem. Too much information is. That was one of the more interesting starting points in my conversation with Prof. Mukesh Sud in […]
We Indians love imported things. Cars. Phones. Management jargon. And apparently, health advice. 10,000 steps. BMI. Intermittent fasting. Protein targets. Cold plunges. Longevity hacks. All very scientific. There is just one small problem. Our bodies may not behave like the bodies those recommendations were originally built around. That was the starting point of my conversation […]
Most founders prepare for growth. Very few prepare for a crisis—or think seriously about crisis management for founders. We obsess over funding, hiring, scaling, sales, marketing and valuation. We proudly discuss market share and expansion plans. Yet, almost nobody sits in a boardroom and asks, “What happens if tomorrow we receive a legal notice? What […]
There are stories that make headlines. And then there are stories that outlive them. Indrani Mukerjea’s story has lived both lives. Once the face of India’s media industry — a woman in boardrooms, breaking ceilings and building empires — she is now on stage, barefoot, drenched in light, telling stories through theatre, dance, and words. […]
We live in an age where everyone is obsessed with the next big thing – AI, automation, disruption. But in all this noise, we’ve forgotten the oldest thing – being human. Episode 8 of Truth Shots with Kapil, hosted by Kapil Gupta, an Indian political thinker known for connecting modern realities with timeless truths, brings […]
Welcome back to Season 4 of Truth Shots with Kapil – the season where we’ve promised to rip off the band-aids, burn the PR handbooks, and tell stories that make people squirm. If Episode 6 was a brutal takedown of corporate lies with PepsiCo’s CFO Kaushik Mitra, Episode 7 takes us into the beating (and […]
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 […]
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 […]
You know how everyone loves to say “the system is broken”? Here’s the truth — it’s not broken. It’s doing exactly what it was designed to do. In Episode 4 of Truth Shots with Kapil, I sat down with Yamini Aiyar, President of the Centre for Policy Research and one of India’s sharpest minds on […]
India’s Economic Truth: What Really Lies Behind the Trillion-Dollar Dream
India is obsessed with growth numbers. Every year, as the Finance Minister stands at the podium and delivers the budget, millions watch as if it’s a national festival. Markets rise and fall, television anchors declare economic victories, and social media lights up with memes and graphs. But very few people know what really happens behind […]