‘No off days’: Jaishankar says my wife may contradict his take on work-life balance

Tamil Nadu: At IIT Madras, EAM Dr S Jaishankar says, "In my life, I don't have off days. It's not like I work Monday to Friday and say Saturday-Sunday I won't do anything because the world doesn't accommodate that. The world still runs on Saturday-Sunday. My life is very mixed up; it doesn't operate on a single time zone, and there is no off switch and no on switch. What I try to do is, within that, build habits and practices and indulgences which make you a stable, reasonable and congenial person who can deal with the rest of the world. I listen to music, I read books, I watch movies, I see sports, most of the time I am very normal... If you build a physical routine into your cycle, give yourself some time to read, write, think, talk, watch I can tell you your daily routine itself is so balanced that you don't need to unplug, but my wife is sitting here and she may contradict me."