Vikas Agrawal

Essays

First-person non-fiction on ambition, standards, money and the quiet costs of a fast career. Newest first.

  1. Folio 2
    October 2026, 3 min read    The Cost Nobody Shows YouThe moving goalpost of ambition, and what quietly had to die in private so that version of you could exist.The cost doesn’t hit you like a car crash. It hits you like a slow leak.
  2. Folio 1
    September 2026, 3 min read    The Burden of the ReliableThe silent tax of being the one who always has things together.People stop seeing a human being. They see an infrastructure.

In draft

  1. Folio 3
    In draft    The First-Generation TrapWhy three people with the same salary live in three different centuries. A working draft on family remittances, medical inflation and the housing trap facing salaried professionals in India.