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A Dream Worth Following: From a World-Class Workplace to a World-Class India

It has been three months since I moved back to India from the US. What am I mostly doing in this important settling-in period? I had no plan , but it turns out I am spending most of my time in office — and what an office it is. Huge, green, and one of the best workspaces in India, maybe even the world. I had no detailed plan about what I would work on in India, but I had a job waiting after my return from onsite. After a week's break, I have been going to office almost daily . This is partly because I am on the bench, and bench employees don't really get work-from-home options. So I keep myself busy with certifications, trainings and hackathons during work hours. But here is the thing I want to talk about. I am sitting in one of the finest physical spaces a worker can ask for, and I owe it to my company. Infosys has been named a Great Place to Work® in India six years in a row, and India's Best Employer Among Nation-Builders 2026 for consecutive years. Many companies ...
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Check, Check, Check: How America and India Learned to Run on Debt — and Taught Their Citizens the Same

There is a number that should have stopped the world's traffic this week, and it passed with barely a shrug: the national debt of the United States crossed $40 trillion . Not the size of its economy — its debt . And here is the sentence that turns the number into a story: America has added roughly as much debt in the last ten years as it accumulated in its entire previous history. From George Washington to 2016 — through a civil war, two world wars, the Depression, the Cold War and the 2008 crash — the republic amassed about $19–20 trillion of obligations. From 2016 to 2026, in one placid decade of mostly peace and mostly growth, it added the same amount again. The last three administrations alone — Trump's first term (about $7.8 trillion), Biden's (about $8.5 trillion), and Trump's second (already past $3.5 trillion in eighteen months) — piled on roughly $20 trillion between them. The debt now works out to about $116,000 per American, $295,000 per household, growi...
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