by Rajan Singh | Jun 5, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
I have rarely felt as hopeless or defeated as I did on Jan 14, 2000. In front of me were a million people caught in a massive traffic jam, which I was unable to prevent. At that time I was the Police Chief in Sabarimala, one of India’s largest pilgrimages. Every year,...
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...
