SAKSHI SETHI

In contemporary organisations, the ability to draw attention is increasingly being misunderstood for the ability to generate effect. Visibility often wins faster attention than consistency and noise is frequently valued over content. As these organisations become more driven by optics and perception, a key question emerges: are we actually acknowledging contribution or just applauding performance that is easier to notice?

There is a quiet tragedy unfolding in Indian classrooms, not in the form of crumbling infrastructure or absent teachers, but in something far more insidious: the gradual erosion of a child’s belief that hard work truly matters. Consider a scenario that is no longer hypothetical. A fifteen-year-old studies with the same dedication, the same late nights, and the same anxious anticipation as any other student in the country. Under one board, his efforts earn him 52 per cent.

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