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Based on a real case Told from the HR side Names changed

“He says he’s the only one on my side.”

She Resigned Three Times in Three Days.

The workplace stories that go viral are told by employees. This one is told by the HR head who had to decide what to do.

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2020, everyone working from home. One employee resigns three times in three days, then stops answering calls. When she finally picks up, she says it is because of her manager.

Based on real events. Names have been changed to protect identities. This is the side of the story that stays hidden and never gets published.

Launching soon

This is only a first look. Here’s what goes live at launch.

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Stories · Short films

Real cases from Indian workplaces

  • An FIR for a termination call Next
  • He Ate His Own Termination Letter
  • How a Two-Line Contract Clause Saved a Company from Its Own CEO
Coming soon

10 Articles

One question, worked through to an answer

  • The Exit Interview: A Ritual of Polite Lies
  • Is a Performance Improvement Plan Really a Plan to Improve?
  • Why Organisations Don’t Measure Training Application
Coming soon

11 Toolkits & playbooks

Tools your HR team can use the same week

  • Before Training Kit
  • HR in Rupees: show HR’s impact in money
  • Stay Talk Kit: keep good people before they resign

Why Mimansa

What’s the one HR question you’ve never asked out loud?

Untold stories

Real experiences from Indian workplaces come up in corridors and private chats, and stop there. Names changed, shared with consent, they deserve to be heard.

Unasked questions

Exit interviews, PIPs, bell curves. We run them every year and rarely ask if they work.

Mimansa exists to make sharing real stories and asking tough questions normal in Indian HR. It is a platform and a community, built by the whole HR fraternity, not a few voices. Indian context, Indian data, Indian workplaces.

Kyun, Mimansa’s host

The way: shastrartha. India’s old tradition of debate as a path to truth. Kyun (क्यों, “why”) hosts it. He asks, and waits.

  1. 01Name the doubtसंशय
  2. 02Hear the other side at its strongestपूर्वपक्ष
  3. 03Reach a conclusionनिर्णय

This belongs to everyone in HR, at every level. Your story or question could be the next one.

Contributed by the HR community · Moderated by

  • Gaurav Patel

    Gaurav Patel

    Global HR leader. Works where AI, technology and behavioural science meet.

  • Himanshu Kumar

    Himanshu Kumar

    HR consulting and HR tech. Helped build Darwinbox, India’s HR tech unicorn.

  • Vivek Sriramaiah

    Vivek Sriramaiah

    Two decades leading HR transformation across India and APAC.

Kyun, Mimansa’s host, curious

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