by Rajan Singh | Jun 2, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
I won only one lottery in my life — and it changed everything. My father grew up in an impoverished village in UP, surviving on subsistence farming. Yet, despite attending a local village school, he managed to land a job in the armed forces. That stroke of luck...
by Rajan Singh | Jun 1, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
One day, during my stint as the Trivandrum City Police Commissioner, a communist party leader walked up to me and said with a smile — “Looks like you are getting ready for war!” That day, the Communist Party was conducting a protest march to the Chief Minister’s...
by Rajan Singh | May 31, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
During my days at McKinsey, one day we got a funny email from the engagement manager of another team working with our client. This manager informed everyone, including the senior partners, that henceforth, he would check his email only at certain times during the day,...
by Rajan Singh | May 30, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
This happened a fortnight ago. It was around 1 pm and I was feeling this terrible low-grade anxiety, making it difficult to focus on anything. And when I can’t focus, my anxiety ramps up even more, and soon, the day goes downhill really fast. I then realized the...
by Rajan Singh | May 29, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
After landing in Kerala, an IPS batchmate lamented to a senior officer — “Sir, Kerala is so far from my native place that even if I draw a circle of 1,000 km radius, I will not find a single relative.” The senior officer replied, “Make your circle’s radius 3,000...
