Books

AI is changing careers. But AI is not a career.

Everywhere you look, someone is promising a shortcut.

Learn prompt engineering.
Take a 30-day AI course.
Become “AI-ready.”
Land a high-paying job.
Future-proof your career.

But here is the uncomfortable question:

Ready for what?

A tool does not become a profession just because it is powerful.

ChatGPT,...

AI has replaced almost everyone.

Finance is automated. HR is automated. Management is automated. Even the CEO is AI.

Only one human employee remains.

His name is Sabar Brar.

At first, he thinks he survived because of his experience and judgement.

He is wrong.

CYA International still needs him for one very uncomfortable reason.

Someone has to...

What if Indians had to clear a Social Behaviour Exam before getting a passport?

Sounds ridiculous.

Until you meet Siddu.

Siddu has one dream: Patong.

No passport. No problem.

Except the government has introduced a new rule. Before he can travel abroad, he must pass the International Social Behaviour Qualification Examination.

And where there is...

He had an Indian passport.

He was travelling to Dilli, the place he called home.

He thought that was enough.

It wasn’t.

One routine check-in turns into a surreal battle over citizenship, identity, bureaucracy and common sense—with the fictional People’s Republic of Ghoristan offering solutions nobody asked for.

Citizenship comes free.
Fees are...

A Satirical Chronicle of Hashtags, Propaganda and History Repeating Itself

What if World War II had social media?

What if Hitler posted updates, Churchill changed his relationship status, Stalin left Roosevelt on Seen, and D-Day nearly leaked through a careless story?

IF WORLD WAR II HAD SOCIAL MEDIA reimagines the Second World War through posts,...

In 1948, George Orwell imagined 1984 as a warning.

For one Sikh schoolboy in Delhi, 1984 became a memory.

Delhi - 1984 - Was Not Fiction is a short memoir-fiction based on the author’s recollections of the 1984 anti-Sikh violence in Delhi.

A normal school day turns into fear, mobs, barricaded homes, uncertainty, survival and the loss of...

What happens when news stops informing and starts performing?

The Rot in News examines how TRP, clickbait, social media outrage, sensational headlines, media trials, viral content and breaking-news culture can distort judgement and exploit human suffering.

Written through the lens of a management consultant, this sharp, provocative book looks at...

TRUST TO THRUST is a practical leadership book about how trust drives performance, ownership, accountability, decision-making and organizational momentum.

Drawing powerful lessons from military commanders and disciplined teams, the book shows business leaders how to build trust before demanding action, create accountability without fear, reduce...

Most companies do not have an innovation problem. They have an environment that quietly kills innovation.

I AM INNOVATION: Save Me to Help You is a practical guide for leaders, managers and professionals who want innovation to become part of everyday business, not just a slogan, workshop or department.

Written with Innovation itself as the...

Most of us believe we know whom we love most.

The answer feels simple until love becomes a multiple-choice question.

A parent. A sibling. A spouse. A child.

Each one matters. But there is no option that says:

All of the above.

Arjun faces the same painful question at different stages of his life. First as a son, then as a husband, a father and a...

She chose her husband over her father.

Karan should have felt fortunate.

After all, he had been chosen first.

But one question refused to leave him:

Did Ruhi choose him because she loved him most?

Years earlier, Ruhi’s family had been haunted by a simple question:

If you could save only one person, whom would you choose?

Her father, Arjun, had...

A family can live with one truth for years. The difficult question is what happens when someone finally discovers it.

Rohan has grown up inside a family shaped by difficult choices.

His grandfather, Arjun, once struggled with the question:

Whom would you save when everyone matters?

His parents, Ruhi and Karan, later discovered that being chosen...

Some people leave our lives. Their choices do not.

After the deaths of Indu and Arjun, their daughter Ruhi inherits more than a family home.

She inherits a promise.

For decades, Arjun had kept the house because of a commitment he made to Indu. Before his death, however, he leaves the next decision to Ruhi.

• Keep it.
• Rent it.
• Sell it.

On the...

Your parents gave you a life. How much of it do you owe them back?

How much of your life do you owe the people who gave you theirs?

After Karan’s sudden death, Ruhi chooses to remain in India.

Her son, Rohan, is building his life abroad.

First Australia.

Then a bigger opportunity takes him even farther away—to Vancouver.

Ruhi does not want to...

What if heartbreak came with a DELETE ALL button?

After a painful breakup, Sanjana is given an extraordinary choice: erase every digital memory of the man she once loved.

Every photograph.
Every message.
Every voice note.
Every playlist.
Every reminder.

18,742 memories. One decision.

At first, deleting everything feels like the perfect way to move...

A message sent in anger to father. Two blue ticks. No reply.

When Pranav tells his father he needs space, he believes there will always be another call, another conversation, another chance to make things right. By morning, that chance is gone.

LAST SEEN is a deeply emotional short story about parents, family relationships, regret, guilt,...

How well do you really know the person you have loved for years?

Gauri thought she knew her husband.

She knew Gautam’s habits, his silences, his anger, his kindness, and the quiet routines of their thirty-two-year marriage.

Then he died.

After the cremation, with only a few days left before she must carry his ashes to the Ganges for a final...

What if everyone from college seems to have done better than you?

A bigger career.
A better title.
More money.
More travel.
A more impressive life.

At forty-six, Arvind has built a respectable life. A stable career. A loving wife. A daughter. A home.

And yet, one old notebook changes everything.

Inside is the life plan he wrote at twenty-one: study...

How many times have you told yourself:

Next year.

Next year I’ll slow down.
Next year I’ll take the trip.
Next year I’ll spend more time with family.
Next year I’ll focus on my health.
Next year I’ll finally start living the life I keep postponing.

Rajiv Malhotra is fifty-eight, successful, respected, and still saying one more year.

One more year...