Saurabh Shukla

High achievers believe their actions matter more than luck. They ask, "What can I control?" instead of blaming circumstances, creating a feedback loop of growth.

Born in 1943 from a farmer's cornfield, this cinder cone grew from nothing to 1,100 feet in just one year. One of the few volcanoes whose birth was witnessed and documented.

At a tea stall in Chandni Chowk, the gas cylinder ran out on a Tuesday morning, and no replacement arrived. Across the city, a hotel kitchen in Connaught Place shut its burners by noon. In Tamil Nadu, restaurant owners queued outside distributor offices before dawn. These are not isolated incidents; they are the street-level face of a geopolitical crisis unfolding 2,500 kilometres away in the narrow waters between Iran and Oman.