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Metro Map & A Story

The other day I took the Metro to go somewhere. I had to change at the interchange station (Majestic) and move from one line to the other.

I am not a frequent user of the metro. So, I didn���t know the order of the stations in different lines. But I found the metro map that was outside the station and inside the train useful.

I watched it from time to time. I could figure out exactly which train in which direction and on which line to take. It was easy to wait for the station as I watched the map inside the train and figured out where to change and how.

Finally, it was easy to find where to alight and which exit to take to get to where I wanted to go. I am making it sound as if taking the metro is otherwise a complicated thing. It is not.

That’s not the point.

The point is this. The Metro Map is easy to use. But it is not an accurate representation of reality. It is just a map to help you get to the destination.

The straight lines, the precise directions, the simple connections between stations, the accurate way to the exit – all of them are not real.

Reality is far different. There are twisted tracks ��� they are not straight. There are underground tunnels and overground bridges which the map doesn���t show.

There are crooked walks with escalators up and down even on the interchange. There are crowds to handle and turns to take. Reality has lots of details that are not there in the map.

Which is exactly why the maps are good and useful. Because it is a story well told.

It is a good story, simply because it drops all the unnecessary details and gets to the point. It just tells you what to do next to get to the destination without telling you how exactly.

Much like a good story which goes from one scene to another seamlessly without any fuss, telling us what is necessary, without bothering us about the unnecessary details.

Show and tell – in the minimum words. That’s why the metro map is a good story well told.

A story does not have to get into the complete version of reality. Reality has lots of things unnecessary for the story. What you skip makes it a good story.

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Stories About Restless Minds

In general, my stories are about characters and their conflicts in the real world. They are about heroes or heroines who get over something they are fighting. But what would happen if that fight didn’t get them what they wanted? Would the restlessness go away?

The mind of a human being is by its very nature restless. It can be both a friend and an enemy. The mind when it gets entangled with ego and a strong desire for something or someone can drive the person in either direction, good or bad.

A lot of what will then happen is difficult to predict. That makes for an interesting story. I wanted to explore that possibility.

I didn’t want to write stories about out-and-out villains. Somehow, it didn’t fit into my worldview and, perhaps, those of my readers. But I realized that if I took normal characters motivated by something, and then stretch their motivation to act in a manner on the borders of sane behavior, a restless mind, even if momentary, is born.

These are not run-of-the-mill extreme bad guys like Gabbar Singh or Mogambo who take pleasure out of harm to people. Restless minds aren’t a problem for these extreme villains because they have no conflict. But the characters I wanted to write about were those who were unable to restrain their restless minds and end up doing something that isn’t good.

What would happen if a character got what it wants? Would he or she be consumed by greed and want more? Or would the innate self of that character control the mind? What would happen if that thing was love, or money, or status?

What would happen if a character doesn’t get what it wants? Would he or she be consumed by anger and pursue it blindly? And would that anger lead to revenge, wickedness, or a simmering hatred?

So, there is a bunch of stories that I wrote about three years ago that has characters that fall in this category.

One such story was titled “A Train to Nowhere” about a woman who has lost in love. It was motivated after watching a movie, but I wanted to capture the strong emotions of such a woman who decides to run away from her world. This was not a character that was inherently bad, but who gets caught in a flurry of rage that she is unable to control.

“The Mind Hack” is a similar tale about a man who is in despair because he cannot control his sorrow after he finds out something about his lover.

Then there were a couple of stories about how greed and manipulation twist a mind in a corporate setting titled “Symbiosis” and “Full and Final Settlement”.

But the one that I found hardest to write was a story titled “The Last Job” which is about a underworld criminal who wants to exit the underworld but finds it tough to get out. Incidentally, he is a bad guy, but the story is about how his mind works as he eventually uses his ‘bad guy’ skills to execute a good job.

And then another story “Mind Game” is an insight into a good policeman’s mind, and how he uses his bad side to deal with a criminal.

These stories eventually were put together in the collection “Melange.”

I find the workings of the mind fascinating. When mixed with conflicts of characters, these tales turned up.

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Online eStore on My Website

I’m thrilled to share some incredibly exciting news with you today! After much anticipation and hard work, I’m delighted to announce the grand opening of my brand-new online e-store, right here on my website!

This new store is your one-stop shop for all my ebooks, making it easier than ever for you to browse, discover, and purchase your next favorite read. Whether you’re looking to add to your collection, revisit a beloved story, or explore something new, you’ll find everything conveniently organized and ready for you.

What you can expect from the new store:

Easy Access: Seamlessly browse all my titles in one dedicated placeSecure Payment: Credit/Debit Card/ Net Banking/ UPI acceptedNo Shipping Hassles: All ebooks are available in convenient PDF formatInstant Delivery: PDF version of the ebook, tailor-made with your name, is sent instantly by Email and Download LinkOrder from Anywhere: Whether you are in India or abroad, get the download link instantly from the sourceNo Risk: 7 Day Full Refund Guarantee, 100% SecureDirect Support: Purchasing directly from my estore helps support my work without any middlemenAuthor Access: Email me directly at ranjit@ranjitkulkarni.com if something goes wrong and I will sort it outExclusive Offers: Special promotions and signed copy opportunities coming soon, exclusively for readers buying on the store

To celebrate this launch, I invite you to visit the new estore and take a look around. I’m excited for you to experience this improved way of connecting with my ebooks and stories.

Click here to explore the new online store: https://ranjitkulkarni.com/store/

As an additional celebration, my Box Sets (in eBook format) are available on Sale on the store.

Click here to get The Ultimate Jigneshbhai & Swami 5 eBook Box Set Collection

Click here to get The Ranjit Kulkarni Short Story eCollection: The 2020-2024 Box Set

Thank you for being such a valued part of my journey. Your support means the world to me.

Happy Shopping and Happy Reading!

Warmly,

Ranjit Kulkarni

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Online Store on My Website

I’m thrilled to share some incredibly exciting news with you today! After much anticipation and hard work, I’m delighted to announce the grand opening of my brand-new online store, right here on my website!

This new store is your one-stop shop for all my books, making it easier than ever for you to browse, discover, and purchase your next favorite read. Whether you’re looking to add to your collection, revisit a beloved story, or explore something new, you’ll find everything conveniently organized and ready for you.

What you can expect from the new store:

Easy Access: Seamlessly browse all my titles in one dedicated placeSecure Payment: Credit/Debit Card/ Net Banking/ UPI acceptedNo Shipping Hassles: All books are available in convenient PDF formatInstant Delivery: PDF version of the book, tailor-made with your name, is sent instantly by Email and Download LinkOrder from Anywhere: Whether you are in India or abroad, get the download link instantly from the sourceNo Risk: 7 Day Full Refund Guarantee, 100% SecureDirect Support: Purchasing directly from my store helps support my work without any middlemenAuthor Access: Email me directly at ranjit@ranjitkulkarni.com if something goes wrong and I will sort it outExclusive Offers: Special promotions and signed copy opportunities coming soon, exclusively for readers buying on the store

To celebrate this launch, I invite you to visit the new store and take a look around. I’m excited for you to experience this improved way of connecting with my books and stories.

Click here to explore the new online store: https://ranjitkulkarni.com/store/

Thank you for being such a valued part of my journey. Your support means the world to me.

Happy Shopping and Happy Reading!

Warmly,

Ranjit Kulkarni

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Story Telling vs Telling Stories

A great resume is a form of storytelling.

It has lots of achievements, from educational to professional areas, and sometimes, even personal, which all add up to tell a good story of why someone is a great hire for a job.

My resume contained work experience that started with words like Led a client engagement that… Delivered a project that.. Built a practice worth $X Mn… Managed the product and industry portfolio… and the like. It had academic credentials highlighted. Even the right hobbies were mentioned for effect.

Apparently, it was a great story well told that worked – at least then. Because I kept getting jobs every few years that seemed better than the current one.

But after more than two decades of storytelling in corporate life using my resume, I took up actually telling stories ��� writing and publishing them. The other day someone who wanted to interview me asked me to send them my resume.

I started adding bullet points corresponding to my author part and fell short in words.

It seems funny to say that I led a project of 60000 words culminating in the creation of a novel. Or that I delivered a short story collection with twenty stories around the theme of travel or around the theme of urban apartment living. Or I created Jigneshbhai and Swami and almost a hundred of their coffee conversations. I couldn’t put them into the right words to form a good story.

Yet, when I think about it, I can show anyone the work that I did. Here are the full length published books. Here are the short story collections, the Jigneshbhai and Swami books, and here you will find my blog.

For the lines corresponding to the twenty plus years before that, when I think about it, I can’t show anyone the work that I did.

Where is the project I delivered or the practice I built or the clients that I engaged with or the portfolio of products I managed? I can���t find them. In some cases, I can���t even find the companies or the businesses anymore.

That is not to belittle that work. I certainly enjoyed doing that and it largely gave me a good life. But despite all the wonderful storytelling on my resume that got me the corporate jobs, I can���t seem to find the work to show.

Whereas from the past five years, I can show you all the work that I did but find it difficult to add more than a couple of lines for it on my resume. The stories are in the books, but I can���t seem to tell an impressive story of that on my resume.

On the one hand, as a corporate executive, I find a lot of storytelling on my resume with nothing to show as work, and on the other hand, as an author, I find nothing much on my resume but lots of stories to show as work. I am not sure which is better!

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Ernest Hemingway’s Home

More than a year back, I had been to Key West on the tip of Florida. I got the opportunity to visit Ernest Hemingway’s home there. He is supposed to have stayed there in the 1930s with his wife (who got the house as a wedding gift from a wealthy uncle).

Key West is a beautiful island, a beach town and most people spend time enjoying the watersports, the culture, the sunshine and chilling out near the ocean. But the best part of my trip that I cherished was this visit to Hemingway’s House.

The Snows of Kilimanjaro and some of his other popular works were written when he was here. After his death, it was auctioned and converted into a museum. It is a popular tourist spot, and the funny thing is, apart from his books, photographs and other memories, it is full of cats.

All the rooms are open to visitors which I walked through, except Hemingway’s writing room, which visitors could see through a screen. I saw his room where there were two typewriters on a table and a chair. The house used to be quite an isolated one at that time. Hemingway might have appreciated the solitude in a remote house on such a far off island, I thought.

And as I walked around, reading the stories neatly displayed outside every room, I wondered what a bygone era that was. No writer uses the typewriter anymore. Most type on their laptop. Or tablet. Or even the phone at times. Some dictate on a Dictaphone. Some purists write with a pen on paper. But most authors definitely don’t use the typewriter.

I imagined how much longer it might have taken to write out a story or a script using a typewriter. And what would happen if Hemingway made a mistake or wanted to change something in a story?

Now we have the backspace or delete buttons. Nothing of that sort existed then. And then, if you add the editing and the finishing of the manuscript, how much more time it would have taken? Those were my first thoughts.

But as I stepped outside the main house to go to the rooms behind, I saw a crowd of people taking selfies and pictures on their phone. Many of them took multiple photos in different poses.

I could see some posing in a manner which suggested that they were definitely pics for social media. Some recorded videos that, I was certain, were going to be reels to be posted online. There were some vloggers recording videos. It was quite a veritable crowd.

That is when my first thought about the difficulty of finishing something due to typewriters changed. On second thought, I realized that with a laptop, or a phone or a tablet, always on and always connected, writers of today have a hidden, distracting enemy that Hemingway’s era never faced.

That enemy was the entangling mire of temptations that pull in anyone, especially writers, without the slightest of their realizing it. It is so easy to waste an hour aimlessly wandering in the plethora of digital clicks that exist all around you.

For a writer, it could mean a simple search for a thesaurus or a synonym – which, on the surface, is related to his work. Or it could be a legitimate break after an hour of writing to read the news or check on email. I am not even mentioning social media or messengers. They are the most slippery types of digital quicksand. One step, and you are going to find it tough to stand up.

This was something that Hemingway and the writers of that era didn’t face. Not to take anything away from them, but I left Hemingway’s home and museum in Key West, Florida, inspired but also cognizant that it was a different era, close to a hundred years back.

The tools that writers have and the temptations they face keep changing from era to era, time to time. As long as the writing itself is timeless, it doesn’t matter.

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Ernest Hemingway���s Home

More than a year back, I had been to Key West on the tip of Florida. I got the opportunity to visit Ernest Hemingway’s home there. He is supposed to have stayed there in the 1930s with his wife (who got the house as a wedding gift from a wealthy uncle).

Key West is a beautiful island, a beach town and most people spend time enjoying the watersports, the culture, the sunshine and chilling out near the ocean. But the best part of my trip that I cherished was this visit to Hemingway’s House.

The Snows of Kilimanjaro and some of his other popular works were written when he was here. After his death, it was auctioned and converted into a museum. It is a popular tourist spot, and the funny thing is, apart from his books, photographs and other memories, it is full of cats.

All the rooms are open to visitors which I walked through, except Hemingway���s writing room, which visitors could see through a screen. I saw his room where there were two typewriters on a table and a chair. The house used to be quite an isolated one at that time. Hemingway might have appreciated the solitude in a remote house on such a far off island, I thought.

And as I walked around, reading the stories neatly displayed outside every room, I wondered what a bygone era that was. No writer uses the typewriter anymore. Most type on their laptop. Or tablet. Or even the phone at times. Some dictate on a Dictaphone. Some purists write with a pen on paper. But most authors definitely don���t use the typewriter.

I imagined how much longer it might have taken to write out a story or a script using a typewriter. And what would happen if Hemingway made a mistake or wanted to change something in a story?

Now we have the backspace or delete buttons. Nothing of that sort existed then. And then, if you add the editing and the finishing of the manuscript, how much more time it would have taken? Those were my first thoughts.

But as I stepped outside the main house to go to the rooms behind, I saw a crowd of people taking selfies and pictures on their phone. Many of them took multiple photos in different poses.

I could see some posing in a manner which suggested that they were definitely pics for social media. Some recorded videos that, I was certain, were going to be reels to be posted online. There were some vloggers recording videos. It was quite a veritable crowd.

That is when my first thought about the difficulty of finishing something due to typewriters changed. On second thought, I realized that with a laptop, or a phone or a tablet, always on and always connected, writers of today have a hidden, distracting enemy that Hemingway’s era never faced.

That enemy was the entangling mire of temptations that pull in anyone, especially writers, without the slightest of their realizing it. It is so easy to waste an hour aimlessly wandering in the plethora of digital clicks that exist all around you.

For a writer, it could mean a simple search for a thesaurus or a synonym – which, on the surface, is related to his work. Or it could be a legitimate break after an hour of writing to read the news or check on email. I am not even mentioning social media or messengers. They are the most slippery types of digital quicksand. One step, and you are going to find it tough to stand up.

This was something that Hemingway and the writers of that era didn’t face. Not to take anything away from them, but I left Hemingway���s home and museum in Key West, Florida, inspired but also cognizant that it was a different era, close to a hundred years back.

The tools that writers have and the temptations they face keep changing from era to era, time to time. As long as the writing itself is timeless, it doesn���t matter.

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Notes from ‘Do the Work’

I recently read the book ‘Do the Work’ by Steven Pressfield, a continuation of the set of books, ‘The War of Art’ and ‘Turning Pro’ by the same author. It is a passionate piece of work, and again, while not as impressive as ‘The War of Art’, it is an ideal guide for writers and artists who want to build a practice, and finish what they start in the face of resistance.

A few lines from the book stayed with me and I made notes based on them. Here are the selected excerpts from the book that make good reading for writers and artists:

Resistance is a repelling force. It���s negative. Its aim is to shove us away, distract us, prevent us from doing our work.

Next to Resistance, rational thought is the artist or entrepreneur���s worst enemy. Bad things happen when we employ rational thought, because rational thought comes from the ego. Instead, we want to work from the Self, that is, from instinct and intuition, from the unconscious.

The deeper the source we work from, the better our stuff will be���and the more transformative it will be for us and for those we share it with.

Ignorance and arrogance are the artist and entrepreneur���s indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no idea how difficult her enterprise is going to be���and cocky enough to believe she can pull it off anyway.

Once we commit to action, the worst thing we can do is to stop. What will keep us from stopping? Plain old stubbornness. When we���re stubborn, there���s no quit in us.

Our mightiest ally (our indispensable ally) is belief in something we cannot see, hear, touch, taste, or feel.

When we conquer our fears, we discover a boundless, bottomless, inexhaustible well of passion.

When art and inspiration and success and fame and money have come and gone, who still loves us���and whom do we love?

Start before you���re ready. Good things happen when we start before we���re ready.

Let the unconscious do its work. Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.

Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?

Figure out where you want to go; then work backwards from there.

Start with the theme. What is this project about? Your movie, your album, your new startup … what is it about? When you know that, you���ll know the end state. And when you know the end state, you���ll know the steps to take to get there. End first, then beginning and middle. That���s your startup, that���s your plan for competing in a triathlon, that���s your ballet.

Pay no attention to those rambling, disjointed images and notions that drift across the movie screen of your mind. Those are not your thoughts. They are chatter. They are Resistance.

Do research early or late. Don���t stop working. Never do research in prime working time.

Set forth without fear and without self-censorship. When you hear that voice in your head, blow it off. If your notion violates every precept I���ve set forth in these pages, tell me to go to hell. Do what that voice says.

Why do I record ideas the minute they come to me? Because if I don���t, I���ll forget them. You will, too.

Act, reflect. Act, reflect. NEVER act and reflect at the same time. In writing, ���action��� means putting words on paper. ���Reflection��� means evaluating what we have on paper.

Our job is not to control our idea; our job is to figure out what our idea is (and wants to be)���and then bring it into being.

I ask myself, again, of the project: ���What is this damn thing about?��� Keep refining your understanding of the theme; keep narrowing it down. This is the thorniest nut of any creative endeavor���and the one that evokes the fiercest Resistance. It is pure hell to answer this question.

Have that meeting twice a week. Pause and reflect. ���What is this project about?��� ���What is its theme?��� ���Is every element serving that theme?���

If you���ve got a head, you���ve got a voice of Resistance inside it. The enemy is in you, but it is not you.

What comes first is the idea, the passion, the dream of the work we are so excited to create that it scares the hell out of us. Resistance is the response of the frightened, petty, small-time ego to the brave, generous, magnificent impulse of the creative self.

The opposite of fear is love���love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a shot at our dream and see if we can pull it off.

The dream is your project, your vision, your symphony, your startup. The love is the passion and enthusiasm that fill your heart when you envision your project���s completion.

Resistance puts two questions to each and all of us. ���How bad do you want it?��� ���Why do you want it?���

The only items you get to keep are love for the work, will to finish, and passion to serve the ethical, creative Muse.

Fear of success is the essence of Resistance.

Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again. Then get back to work. Begin the next one tomorrow. Stay stupid. Trust the soup. Start before you���re ready.

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Who do you work for?: Jigneshbhai and Swami

Last weekend over coffee, Swami started, not with a question as he often does, but with an observation.

“A few years back, I was told that I need to post on LinkedIn regularly twice a week for it to work,” he started. “Only then will there be recognition of my knowledge and expertise as a consultant, they said.”

Jigneshbhai who wasn’t much into LinkedIn looked up in eagerness but didn’t say anything. Swami continued.

“I need to blog or write or post something or keep commenting to seal it. That’s what they said. It doesn’t matter what I post, as long as there is a base volume.”

I could identify with what Swami said. I generally end up listening to my friends talk but this time I couldn’t resist.

“They said the same thing about Amazon and Instagram for me,” I said. “You should post your book covers on Instagram and make sure that the reviewers comment or like or repost them. Only then your books will get noticed, they said,” I added.

Jigneshbhai looked up to me this time, surprised, but still remained silent. So I continued, much like Swami does.

“Then they said I should have a website. I should have a blog and post articles there that should have keywords, they said,” I reported. This seemed to have triggered Jigneshbhai into some action.

He kept his coffee cup aside and asked, “Who are they?”

Swami and I stared at each other. We didn’t quite have an answer to this upfront question. We scratched our heads.

Like always, it was Swami who replied. “Well, they are the people who had supposedly used these platforms successfully before.”

“So, you tried it based on what they said. Did it work for you?” Jigneshbhai asked a pointed question again.

Swami and I glared at each other again. None of it had worked – for us, at least. Both of us shook our heads without saying anything.

“Why?” asked Jigneshbhai, a question for which again we had no clear answer.

“Maybe I didn’t persist,” Swami said.

“Maybe I didn’t spend enough,” I said.

“Maybe you don’t know,” Jigneshbhai said, with a snigger. Maybe, no – definitely, he was right. We remained silent.

Jigneshbhai took a couple of sips from his coffee cup. We knew something was brewing.

“Did you get any job or clients due to your reputation on LinkedIn?” he asked Swami.

Swami scratched his chin, and replied, “Umm.. not really. Clients never came looking for my LinkedIn, nor did jobs come based on LinkedIn. But some of them did check my LinkedIn after I started working with them.”

Then Jigneshbhai turned to me. “Did you get any readers from Instagram or your blog?” he asked.

It was my time now to scratch my chin. I never found a single reader who chanced upon my website or books while searching for something to read on Google or Instagram or my blog.

“Umm.. not really. But after someone told them about my writing or they read something about my books somewhere that triggered their interest, they went and checked my site or Amazon page, sometimes,” I replied.

“There you have it,” Jigneshbhai remarked, and set us thinking.

But before we could put on our thinking hats for more, he said, “If everyone is trying to establish their reputation with LinkedIn posts, and everyone is on Instagram or Amazon trying to get their books searched on, who is everyone working for?”

Swami and I were blank and stayed that way while Jigneshbhai continued.

“Is everyone working for the algorithm? If that is the case, won’t the algorithm stop working for you?” he asked.

Swami and I did not have an answer. But Jigneshbhai had one.

“It is better not to work for the algorithms. It is best to work for yourself,” he said. Swami and I grudgingly noted that Jigneshbhai had switched on some light, as always.

“Let the jobs and clients and readers come if they do. They will come due to your work, not just the algorithms,” he continued. “And if they don’t, you might as well enjoy working for yourself,” he added, with a loud guffaw.

As we were lost in our thoughts behind a sheepish smile, we noticed that the wealthy, old man in the sprawling bungalow had been listening to our conversation. He walked up to us and left us with more as we took the last few sips of our coffee.

“Work for yourself first. Maybe you will find others who like it. Then work for them. That is far better than working for the algorithms and wondering who do you work for?”

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YouTube Interview with IIMKeBaad

I recently got interviewed by a YouTube Channel named ‘IIMKeBaad.’

It is run by two IIM Graduates who reunited after 25 years to relive and unravel untold tales with other IIM graduates.

In the process, they interview IIM graduates of various shades, covering their journeys from IIM to the real world, and blending their discussions with a dash of wisdom and humour.

My interview starts with my background and early life, and then dives deep into engineering, motivation and preparation for CAT, and the IIM experience itself.

After that, there is a long discussion on my corporate work experience, including my stints with entrepreneurship, and later with Oracle, HP, Lenovo and IBM, along with learnings from dot com and views on data analytics and AI.

The interview then takes a turn to the recent past, where we talk about the need and meaning of financial independence, how it prepared me for taking the plunge into an independent life as an author and freelance consultant.

And towards the last half an hour, there is a deep dive into my writing journey and books, life as a author (including the economics of writing!) and plans for the future.

The interview is a long one, almost two hours, and covers a range of topics.

Here is the list of key topics and the links to jump into them directly:

0:05:06 – Early life and Education: About Ranjit, Nostalgic stories of train journeys, Academic Choices

0:11:44 Why IIM & CAT: Preparation & Interview, English Improvement, GD Experience

0:40:32 Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurship Journey, About Corporate life, AI evolution & family

1:05:39 Author Journey: How and Why he started writing? Financial Independence, Earnings & Royalties

1:32:48 Publishing: Publishing process and struggles, Life in Bangalore

The editors of the channel have characterized the episode in the following words:

“If you���ve ever wondered whether you can pursue both stability and creativity ��� this is the episode you need. We explore the mindset of someone who cracked CAT in the pre-Internet era, built a global career, and then chose to write short stories for the soul.”

“We promise you���it���s not just a podcast, it���s a powerful reminder that success doesn���t have one definition! Whether you want to build a business, crack a top B-school, or publish your first book���this episode has something for you. So plug in your earphones, hit play, and let Ranjeet���s journey inspire your next big move.”

If you would like to see this interview, then grab a cup (or two) of coffee, and do click on the link below and watch it sip by sip.

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