Working Abroad

Across Horizons and Pay Slips

A Transcontinental Look at Salaries in India and America In a crowded café in Gurgaon, the talk is not of cricket or monsoons but of salary bands — or, more precisely, the yawning chasm that yawns between what one might earn in India versus what one might make performing ostensibly the same job in the […]

Wellness

Sleep, Considered

There is a particular kind of boast one hears at dinner parties in large cities, usually delivered with a half-smile and a faintly apologetic shrug: I only slept four hours last night. The speaker expects admiration, or at least recognition, as though sleep were a negotiable inconvenience rather than a biological requirement. In these moments, […]