Latest • June 11, 2026
Elsewhere in time
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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Writing reflective stories and sharing thoughts.
12 pieces, newest first
January 14, 2026 • Gurugram, India
A Noble Farmer in the capital
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
Room 3327
A journey into the cost of being too far ahead of your time.
By Rajan Kumar
December 18, 2025 • Gurugram, India
The road back, The road beyond
Between roots and roads, he lay awake. Morning would ask for an answer.
By Rajan Kumar
January 14, 2024 • Gurugram,India
The nice guy dilemma
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 lonely chapter of pathfinders
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
The creativity crisis
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)]
October 21, 2023 • Gurugram, India
Curiosity driven learning
This note highlights the need for breaking out of learning FOMO and re-kindeling the joy of curiosity
By Rajan Kumar
November 2, 2018 • Bangalore, India
The big questions
The big questions about life, moral values, universe and why they it is what it is, are still unanswered.
By Rajan Kumar
August 21, 2017 • Raxaul,Bihar,India
The sacrifice
Re-visiting after 9 years to complete a self made promise and learning a mysterical purpose behind his sacrifice.
By Rajan Kumar
October 9, 2014 • Bhopal, India
Memories of Patna
Memories of the coaching classes, struggles, friends, fun and the banks of holy Ganga.
By Rajan Kumar
April 24, 2014 • College hostel (Jai Shree Boys Hostel) - Bhopal, India
The day I lost my wallet and found humanity
This story delves into a day when I lost my wallet and was stranded in an unknow place.
By Rajan Kumar