
Latest • June 11, 2026
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One quite evening a young man meets a stranger in the park. The meeting takes an unexpected turn as the man was not an ordinary individual.
Rajan Kumar • Raxaul, India
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Latest • June 11, 2026
One quite evening a young man meets a stranger in the park. The meeting takes an unexpected turn as the man was not an ordinary individual.
Rajan Kumar • Raxaul, India
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January 14, 2026 • Gurugram, India
This story explores a man who couldn't bargain with his values and eventually paid the price for it. It reveals how the political landscape slowly crushes noble intentions and how choosing integrity in a corrupt system can cost everything and leave one isolated.
By Rajan Kumar

January 4, 2026 • Gurugram, India
A journey into the cost of being too far ahead of your time.
By Rajan Kumar

December 18, 2025 • Gurugram, India
Between roots and roads, he lay awake. Morning would ask for an answer.
By Rajan Kumar

January 14, 2024 • Gurugram,India
A person who can be manipulated by money, lust or fame is not respected, trusted, feared or loved. Make yourself manipulation proof from these stuffs.
By Rajan Kumar

December 26, 2023 • Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode
The difference-makers and pathfinders take unconventional decisions and often find themselves utterly alone with those choices. Those lonely chapters of their life are where they re-invent themselves.
By Rajan Kumar • Reviewer: Prof. (Dr.) Priya Nair Rajeev [Professor- OB & HR & Head- Centre of Excellence for Social Innovation (CESI)]

December 19, 2023 • Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode
With extreme virtualization, digital noises and many other factors, we are losing the space we used to have for thinking... blending... dispersing... observing and most importantly ‘creating’ in the end. This shrinking space for ‘creating’ is a creativity crisis for every individual.
By Rajan Kumar • Reviewer: Prof. (Dr.) Priya Nair Rajeev [Professor- OB & HR & Head- Centre of Excellence for Social Innovation (CESI)]
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