India, June 11 -- Jairam Sridharan, Managing Director and CEO of Piramal Finance, has caught the internet's attention after sharing what happened when he completely disconnected from work and the digital world for 16 days. In a LinkedIn post, Sridharan revealed that he returned to 3,000 unread messages, 2,000 emails and hundreds of missed calls, but also realised one important thing: "Everything in the world has carried on just fine without me."

"Returned to 'normal life' yesterday night, after a 16 day break. Per my usual custom, for these 16 days I did not access email, didn't pick up any calls, stayed away from WhatsApp, didn't engage in any social media chatter, didn't watch the news ... Basically avoided anything that could remotely...