May 3, 2022
Fuel it with hunger
On ideas, risk, and the restless pursuit of purpose. Yesterday, a friend told me she was planning to start up with an acquaintance. She said they had an…
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April 13, 2021
Chaitra Shukla Pratipada – The Universal Day of Creation
A reflection on time, consciousness, and the Universal Day of Creation. Was it difficult for you, as a child, to memorise which month has how many days? And…
December 31, 2020
Goodbye 2020
An elegy for a year that broke us, and a whisper of hope for the ones we lost. Many people ask what I’m doing for New Year’s Eve.…
July 4, 2015
Proud to be Indian
Building in India. For the world. I am not here to count India’s achievements — there are too many to count, and too few who still count them…
July 4, 2015
Drive Safer: Tips for the monsoons
Because the road doesn’t forgive carelessness, even when the skies do. Every monsoon, the roads turn into test tracks for patience, reflexes, and common sense. And yet, as…
May 29, 2011
Re-invent the wheel
Leadership is not about reinventing the wheel. It’s about thinking differently, and applying that thought to the circumstances that exist — not rewriting the past, but reshaping the…
March 1, 2011
Forgotten ideas, apples to bananas
Banana Republic. A term once coined to describe countries dependent on plantation agriculture — now used as a political insult. It’s interesting how language, over time, distorts intent.…
August 24, 2010
Spirituality: The Mother of All Science
I remember when I first began studying science in school. It was presented as the study of the universe, built on principles that seemed absolute: Energy can neither…
July 18, 2010
Cows Are Holy
In 2008, at a Carbon Trading Conference, I listened to two Western experts suggest that India’s “wild cows” were a problem — that their digestive emissions added to…
July 15, 2010
He Answers the Silent Within
The one who created the universe also created its smallest crevices — the places where we lose what is dear to us, whether objects or certainties, and the…