Niranjan Pathak
Everyone Is Building AI Video Tools. So Why the Hell Did My Friend Build Another One?
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Comedy Writing
- The Two Trillion Dollar Company That Cannot Read
- Why Gandhi Chose Non-Violence?
- How to Start Stand-Up Comedy With Zero Experience (And Still Keep Your Dignity, Mostly)
Life & Observations
- 35 Is the New 25: How Adulthood Became Something You Have to Afford
- The Safer Bet: Why a Man Can Want Love, Want Children, and Still Be Terrified of Marriage
- How Youth Romanticizes Being Broken
Global Punchlines
- Casteism Was Never About Who Was Right. It Was Always About Who Was Strong.
- Why Every Country Thinks It Invented Democracy Correctly
- The Cockroach, The Country, and The Cult of “Think Like Me”
Self-Help & Growth
- What Makes a Boy a Man? The Day Nobody Comes to Save Him
- Why Do People Fear Public Humiliation More Than Death?
- The Difference Between Being Wanted and Being Loved
Niranjan Pathak
Casteism Was Never About Who Was Right. It Was Always About Who Was Strong.
Casteism in India is usually discussed as a battle between communities. But what if we are asking the…
Niranjan Pathak
What Makes a Boy a Man? The Day Nobody Comes to Save Him
Nobody tells you when you've become a man. Sometimes it happens after heartbreak, poverty, rejection or responsibility, when…
Niranjan Pathak
Why Do People Fear Public Humiliation More Than Death?
A man puts a gun to your head: die, or stand naked at a traffic signal while everyone…
Niranjan Pathak
The Two Trillion Dollar Company That Cannot Read
Three words, one capital letter, no comma. It arrived with the tonal confidence of a customs officer. But…
Niranjan Pathak
Why Gandhi Chose Non-Violence?
Have You Seen the Man? Ask a historian why Gandhi chose non-violence and you will get a serious…
Niranjan Pathak
Shocking Reasons New York Is So Expensive and People Stay Anyway
I've never been to New York, but I’ve wanted to go for years. I spoke to two New…
Niranjan Pathak
Proven Reasons the Internet Made Everyone Rich, Except You
Opportunity rose. So did the number of people you can watch taking it. The short version It is…
Niranjan Pathak
35 Is the New 25: How Adulthood Became Something You Have to Afford
A generation didn’t decide to grow up late. The requirements changed and nobody updated the deadline. The short…
Niranjan Pathak
The Safer Bet: Why a Man Can Want Love, Want Children, and Still Be Terrified of Marriage
Somewhere tonight a man is doing math about the woman he loves — not the romantic kind, the…
Niranjan Pathak
The Cult of Being Right
There is a half-second in every argument where you know you're wrong. Not after. During. And you keep…
Niranjan Pathak
Why Every Country Thinks It Invented Democracy Correctly
1. The Bar Fight That Never Ends Put five people in a room — an American, a Brit,…
Niranjan Pathak
You Don’t Need a SIP Right Now. You Need to Learn Where Your Money Actually Goes.
Everyone wants to talk about compounding graphs and SIP screenshots. Nobody wants to talk about why the account…
Niranjan Pathak
The Difference Between Being Wanted and Being Loved
The ache nobody names correctly There’s a specific kind of loneliness that doesn’t look like loneliness from the…
Niranjan Pathak
Why Passion Isn’t Enough for Career Happiness
It’s 3:14 AM. I’m on a call with someone eight time zones away, saying a version of the…
Niranjan Pathak
AI Is Going to Take Your Job. The Bigger Problem Is What You’ll Do After.
There is a very specific sound that happens in a call centre at 2 a.m., and I want…
Niranjan Pathak
How Youth Romanticizes Being Broken
Somewhere along the way, an entire generation decided that being okay was the suspicious answer, and being wrecked…
Niranjan Pathak
We File It Under Character: Why the World Keeps Misreading Male Suicide
Men die by suicide two to five times more often than women in almost every country on earth.…
Niranjan Pathak
How to Start Stand-Up Comedy With Zero Experience (And Still Keep Your Dignity, Mostly)
By Niranjan Pathak Part-time human, full-time laughter victim. Before We Begin, A Warning This is going to be…
Niranjan Pathak
Nobody Warns You What Irregular Income Does To Your Brain
There is a specific ritual freelancers perform that salaried people have never once done in their entire lives,…
Niranjan Pathak
Indian Parenting Builds Great Employees and Terrible Adults
I need to say something before you keep reading, because if I don’t, some uncle in your family…
Niranjan Pathak
The Cockroach, The Country, and The Cult of “Think Like Me”
I've watched the CJP protest from Day One. Sometimes the left is right, sometimes the right is right,…
Niranjan Pathak
Why Discussing Politics in India Makes You Look Stupid, Part 2: The Sequel Nobody Asked For But Everybody Needed
The cockroach was funny. The Chief Justice was a legitimate villain. The anger was real. And someone very…
Niranjan Pathak
Why Discussing Politics in India Makes You Look Stupid (Part I)
I spent weeks pretending to be a BJP supporter in front of Congress supporters and a Congress supporter…
Niranjan Pathak
Why Your 20s Are Confusing as Shit and How To Deal With Them
This article is basically a middle finger to the lie that your 20s are supposed to be magical,…
Niranjan Pathak
Why Do I Hate Stupid People?
Why do stupid people frustrate us so much? Is stupidity really about low intelligence, or is it something…
Rudraa Joshi
The Courage to Stay Pink ✦ Stay Pink ✦
The world has a strange way of rewarding people who turn grey. Grey is practical. Grey is guarded.…
Niranjan Pathak
Stop Comparing Yourself Before You Become a Full-Time Dumbfuck: The Real Guide to Escaping the Comparison Trap
Your brain doesn’t want you to be happy; it just wants you to be safe. And its favorite…
Niranjan Pathak
How To Stop Caring About People Who Don’t Care About You
Introduction: The Emotional Gym Membership You Keep Paying For But Never Use Let’s start with an uncomfortable truth.…
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Sep 29 Everyone Is Building AI Video Tools. So Why the Hell Did My Friend Build Another One? Sep 22 Casteism Was Never About Who Was Right. It Was Always About Who Was Strong. Sep 18 What Makes a Boy a Man? The Day Nobody Comes to Save Him Sep 16 Why Do People Fear Public Humiliation More Than Death? Sep 14 The Two Trillion Dollar Company That Cannot Read Sep 9 Why Gandhi Chose Non-Violence? Sep 8 Shocking Reasons New York Is So Expensive and People Stay Anyway Sep 4 Proven Reasons the Internet Made Everyone Rich, Except You Sep 4 35 Is the New 25: How Adulthood Became Something You Have to Afford Sep 2 The Safer Bet: Why a Man Can Want Love, Want Children, and Still Be Terrified of Marriage Sep 1 The Cult of Being Right Aug 29 Why Every Country Thinks It Invented Democracy Correctly Aug 28 You Don’t Need a SIP Right Now. You Need to Learn Where Your Money Actually Goes. Aug 22 The Difference Between Being Wanted and Being Loved Aug 19 Why Passion Isn’t Enough for Career Happiness Aug 13 AI Is Going to Take Your Job. The Bigger Problem Is What You’ll Do After. Aug 7 How Youth Romanticizes Being Broken Aug 4 We File It Under Character: Why the World Keeps Misreading Male Suicide Aug 3 How to Start Stand-Up Comedy With Zero Experience (And Still Keep Your Dignity, Mostly) Aug 1 Nobody Warns You What Irregular Income Does To Your Brain Jul 31 Indian Parenting Builds Great Employees and Terrible Adults Jul 23 The Cockroach, The Country, and The Cult of “Think Like Me” Jun 22 Why Discussing Politics in India Makes You Look Stupid, Part 2: The Sequel Nobody Asked For But Everybody Needed Jun 10 Why Discussing Politics in India Makes You Look Stupid (Part I) Jun 4 Why Your 20s Are Confusing as Shit and How To Deal With Them Jun 1 Why Do I Hate Stupid People? May 29 The Courage to Stay Pink ✦ Stay Pink ✦ May 28 Stop Comparing Yourself Before You Become a Full-Time Dumbfuck: The Real Guide to Escaping the Comparison Trap May 18 How To Stop Caring About People Who Don’t Care About YouFollow along
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