Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

INSANE: 2 - The Real Truth

Notice Period Buyout and Gratuity: What You're Actually Owed When You Resign in India

What a Notice Period Buyout Actually MeansWhen you resign and cannot serve your full notice period, your employer can recover the shortfall from your final salary. This is called a notice period buyout, you are paying the company for the days you did not work. The amount is calculated on…

Times Life

How to Declutter Your Home Before Festival Guests Arrive: A Room-by-Room Indian Guide

Start with the entrance, because guests judge it firstThe moment a guest steps through your front door, the chappals, the umbrella stand overflowing with three broken umbrellas, the school bags dumped on the shoe rack, all of it lands before a single word of greeting. Chanakya wrote in the Arthashastra…

Times Life

7 Employment Contract Red Flags Every Indian Professional Signs Without Reading First

The Probation Period With No Fixed End DateStandard employment contracts in India often state a probation period of three to six months. What many don't state is the condition under which it ends. Some contracts include language like "probation may be extended at the discretion of management" with no cap…

Times Life

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

How to Get an FIR Registered When the Police Station Refuses Your Complaint in India

Chanakya Knew This Problem ExistedChanakya wrote in the Arthashastra that a state which denies its citizens access to justice corrodes its own authority faster than any external enemy. He wasn't describing a hypothetical. He was describing a structural temptation, the gatekeeper who benefits from keeping the gate shut. The police…

Times Life

How to Buy Your First Home This Diwali: Property Loans, Vastu, and Budget Tips for Indian Buyers

Why Diwali Is the Most Dangerous Time to Buy a HomeChanakya wrote in the Arthashastra that a buyer who acts in haste gives the seller his profit twice. No season tests that warning more than Diwali. Builders launch their biggest campaigns between Navratri and Bhai Dooj. Hoardings promise zero stamp…

Times Life

Why Pranayama Restores Mental Focus and Concentration Faster Than Any Digital Break

The Problem With Stepping Away From Your ScreenA ten-minute walk to the kitchen, a scroll through Instagram, a cup of chai, these are the digital breaks most people take when their concentration collapses mid-afternoon. None of them work the way people think they do. The reason is physiological. When sustained…

Times Life

5 Lessons From Birsa Munda's Leadership Under Pressure That Apply to Any Crisis Manager

Lesson 1: Map Your Real Resources, Not the Ones You Wish You HadWhen Birsa Munda launched the Ulgulan, the great tumult, in 1899, he had no rifles, no legal standing, and no external funding. What he had was intimate knowledge of the Chota Nagpur plateau's forests, a community that trusted…

Times Life

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

What a Government Salary Teaches About Frugality, Savings, and Financial Stability

The Fixed Ceiling Is the Whole LessonA Grade B central government employee in India earns somewhere between ₹35,000 and ₹55,000 a month at entry level, with increments that move on a schedule, not on performance. There is no bonus quarter. There is no stock option. The number arrives on the…

Times Life

5 Study Habits of India's Most Disciplined Exam Toppers That Contradict Common Advice

They Study Less, Not MoreThe most consistent finding across IAS, IIT-JEE, and NEET toppers isn't a 16-hour study day. Srushti Jayant Deshmukh, who topped the IAS in 2019, has spoken publicly about capping her study hours and building deliberate rest into her schedule. The common advice is to grind longer.…

Times Life

Subhas Chandra Bose's Organisational Discipline Has Real Lessons for Anyone Building a Team

Set the standard before you set the taskBose inherited soldiers from prisoner-of-war camps and volunteers from Indian diaspora communities across Malaya and Singapore. He had no institutional authority these men were obliged to respect. What he had was a stated standard of conduct that applied to him first. He wore…

Times Life

How Abraham Lincoln's Self-Education Habits Can Help You Learn Anything Without Money or Resources

He Had Fewer Books Than You Have Browser TabsLincoln's formal schooling totalled less than twelve months across his entire childhood. No single teacher, no fixed curriculum, no library card. He borrowed books from neighbours across miles of Indiana wilderness, read them by firelight when candles ran out, and returned them…

Times Life

India's Ancient Gurukul System Knew the Secret to Deep Learning and Lasting Memory Before Silicon Valley Did

The Gurukul Wasn't Teaching Content. It Was Engineering Conditions.Every major critique of modern education, distraction, shallow retention, passive consumption, traces back to the same structural problem: learning is separated from living. The gurukul solved this before the problem had a name. A shishya didn't attend lessons and then go home…

Times Life

What Panchatantra Fables Teach About Office Politics, Betrayal, and Workplace Survival

The Monkey and the Crocodile: Your Friendliest Colleague May Want Your HeartA crocodile befriends a monkey who lives in a rose-apple tree, visits daily, shares fruit, and seems genuinely warm. Then the crocodile's wife decides she wants the monkey's heart, she assumes anyone who eats such sweet fruit must have…

Times Life

Kautilya's Seven Pillars of a Strong State Map Perfectly Onto Career and Business Resilience

Swami: The Quality of the Leader Determines Everything DownstreamKautilya opens the Arthashastra's analysis of state power with the Swami, the ruler, and the logic is unsparing: a weak or undisciplined leader corrupts every system beneath them, regardless of how well those systems are designed. For a career, the Swami is…

Times Life

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Times Life

3 Follow-Up Moves After a Job Interview in India That Signal Confident, Professional Intent

Send a specific thank-you email within 24 hoursThe generic "thank you for your time" email does nothing. Every candidate sends it. The one that gets read twice is the email that references something specific from the conversation, a challenge the interviewer mentioned, a project detail they seemed proud of, a…

Times Life

5 Things Every Indian Professional Must Do the Night Before a Job Interview at an MNC or Startup

Research the company's recent moves, not its homepageMost candidates read the About Us page and call it preparation. Hiring managers at MNCs and startups can tell within two minutes of the interview. What they want to hear is whether you followed the company's last funding round, its recent product launch,…

Times Life

3 Interview Preparation Mistakes Indian Candidates Make That Have Nothing to Do With Knowledge

The Mistake That Starts Before You Enter the RoomChanakya wrote in the Arthashastra that a man who does not know how to present himself will not be trusted with what he knows. Indian interview coaching almost never touches this. The focus is on answers, STAR format, technical rounds, HR questions,…

Times Life

5 Time Blocking Techniques JEE Aspirants Use to Study Multiple Subjects Without Losing Focus

The Fixed-Subject Block MethodThe most battle-tested technique among serious JEE aspirants is deceptively simple: assign each subject a non-negotiable time window every single day, regardless of how the previous day went. Physics gets the morning block, typically 6 AM to 9 AM, because most students report sharper analytical thinking before…

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Times Life

Why Your NEET Preparation Strategy That Worked in Class 11 Fails in Class 12 and What to Do

The Method That Got You Here Will Not Get You ThereIn Class 11, the job is acquisition. You are meeting the sodium-potassium pump for the first time, seeing Newton's laws applied to pulleys, learning what a p-block element actually is. Reading a chapter twice, making neat notes, solving the back…

Times Life

3 Daily Mindset Habits UPSC Rank Holders Use to Survive Multi-Year Preparation Without Burnout

The Habit of Deliberate IncompletenessEvery UPSC topper who has spoken candidly about multi-year preparation says the same thing in different words: they stopped trying to finish the day feeling done. Chanakya wrote in the Arthashastra that a king who exhausts his treasury on a single campaign has no reserves for…

Times Life

What UPSC Toppers Do During Their Study Hours That Most Aspirants Are Not Doing

They read to question, not to finishMost aspirants treat a chapter as a task to complete. Toppers treat it as a problem to interrogate. Shubhra Ranjan, whose students have consistently placed in the top 100, has said in multiple interviews that the single habit separating serious candidates from successful ones…

Times Life

Chanakya Knew Exactly the Friend Who Swears Loyalty and Betrays You With Every Action

The gap between the word and the deedChanakya wrote in the Arthashastra that a man is known by his conduct, not his declarations. He was writing about ministers and kings, about court politics where a false ally could dismantle a kingdom from the inside. But the observation holds in every…

Times Life

Batch Cooking for One: How Solo Meal Prep and Storage Planning Actually Work in India

The Standard Advice Doesn't ScaleMost batch cooking guides assume you're feeding four people and have a double-door refrigerator. Cook once, eat all week, that's the promise. For one person in a 1BHK in Pune or Chennai, that promise turns into a week of eating the same sabzi until you'd rather…

Times Life

5 Cooking-for-One Hacks for Indian Singles That Are Quick, Nutritious, and Simple

The Pressure Cooker Is Your Best Single-Serving ToolMost solo cooks default to instant noodles because a full pressure cooker feels like overkill. Flip that logic. A 2-litre pressure cooker, the smallest size widely available in Indian kitchens, cooks a single serving of dal, rice, or sabzi in under ten minutes.…

Times Life

How to Manage Domestic Help Professionally So Your Household Stops Running on Daily Stress

The Real Cost of Running a Vague HouseholdThe average Indian middle-class home employs between one and three domestic workers, a cook, a bai for cleaning, sometimes a driver or a nanny. Most of these arrangements are entirely verbal, with no written terms, no defined scope of work, and no agreed…

1 2 3 4 5

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the University of Chicago

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Intellectual Property

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.