https://drvarunmurthy.com/writing/ Long-form essays on education, welfare and national development, by Dr Varun Murthy — physician, educationist and Founder & Secretary of the Rebuild India Foundation. en-in © 2026 Dr Varun Murthy drvarun.murthy@rebuildindia.net (Dr Varun Murthy) drvarun.murthy@rebuildindia.net (Dr Varun Murthy) Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0530 https://drvarunmurthy.com/writing/the-bleeding-entrepreneur/ https://drvarunmurthy.com/writing/the-bleeding-entrepreneur/ Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0530 Dr Varun Murthy MSME Employment Skilling Over 99% of India's registered enterprises are micro. They cannot verify who they hire, because a forged experience letter costs Rs 7,500 and arrives in 48 hours. Why this is an information problem, not a character problem — and what has to be built. https://drvarunmurthy.com/writing/nobody-wants-to-be-here/ https://drvarunmurthy.com/writing/nobody-wants-to-be-here/ Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Dr Varun Murthy Migrant workers Welfare Education Ten people in a goods vehicle at a Bengaluru signal, the arithmetic that put them there, and why the question is not only what the government owes them. https://drvarunmurthy.com/writing/the-trust-deficit/ https://drvarunmurthy.com/writing/the-trust-deficit/ Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0530 Dr Varun Murthy Social trust Community Indian trust in other Indians halved in one decade — the decade of the boom. What was lost, and what the evidence says actually rebuilds it. https://drvarunmurthy.com/writing/dharma-pantha-mata/ https://drvarunmurthy.com/writing/dharma-pantha-mata/ Thu, 06 Aug 2026 07:00:00 +0530 Dr Varun Murthy Philosophy Three words we have collapsed into one — and most of the conflict that follows. A principle, a path and a rule are not the same thing. https://drvarunmurthy.com/writing/the-child-who-does-not-wake/ https://drvarunmurthy.com/writing/the-child-who-does-not-wake/ Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Dr Varun Murthy Child welfare A scene at a Bengaluru signal, the two possibilities behind it, and the question that neither government nor charity can answer on its own.