Just the other day, a friend and I were discussing the living legend Sachin Tendulkar and his incredible feat of scoring a hundred centuries. A cricket buff himself, my friend believed Sachin’s magic ingredient was happiness.  “Look at him carefully when he is at the pitch,” he said. “He looks so happy!

In an impulsive Facebook post last Friday, I wrote about a friend’s routine practice to spell “weekend” as “‘weakened” to describe his state after a work week and wondered if it was because he was yet to fall in love with his work.

Just last week, I was overjoyed as I read about the appointment of Virginia M. Rometty as the first ever woman CEO in the 100 year history of IBM. But my delight was short-lived and soon dampened by another important announcement.

There was a whole lot of talk at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting. But how much of it will turn into meaningful action?

When I arrived in Davos, Switzerland, last Tuesday for my fourth WorldEconomic Forum annual meeting, I found myself asking an odd question: What am I doing here?

An inspiring experiment by two young men is finding resonance among youth today. Mathew Cherian and Tushar Vashisht, both 26 years old, are trying to experience the constraints of living on India’s average monthly income by subsisting on just Rs. 100 ($ 2.00) a day for a month.