The Barber under a Tree

Imagine, for a moment, a world without the local barber under the tree. For a modest fee — anywhere between ten and fifty cents — this craftsman provides a service far more effective than Gillette’s multi-million-dollar “Shave India Movement.” While ad agencies brainstorm slogans about smoothness, our man under the tree quietly keeps the faces […]

The Tryst with Destiny

1947. The 15th of August. The stroke of midnight.The pages of Indian history turned, and a new chapter began — an era of independence, hard-earned and heavy with consequence. As the rest of the world slept, India awoke — not just to freedom, but to responsibility. The dawn was radiant, but the night before it […]

Social Media Recall

The phrase Total Recall may sound cinematic, but what we truly need today is a Social Media Recall — a moment of pause to reflect on what we’re really building online. Over the past decade, social media has evolved from conversation to commerce, from sharing to shouting. The noise is constant, and the challenge for […]

Time Management and Technology

Time management shouldn’t be a separate activity — it should be an integral part of the way you do things. For this to happen, you need to develop good time management habits and avoid bad ones. Time management is not an external discipline; it is an internal practice. It is not about creating rigid schedules […]

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: These laws created a framework, and within that framework we were asked to see the universe. But as the study of science advanced, the framework stretched. Relativity revealed that mass […]

Blogging is Art

I define art as the reproduction of thoughts and emotions — those flashes of inspiration that cannot be forced into structure. Art is not just canvas and color, melody and rhythm; it is the honest expression of the human spirit. By that measure, blogging is art. Beyond Professionalism Today, there are “professional bloggers” who write […]

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 the carbon footprint, and therefore reducing their number could improve the environment. The argument shocked me. It was a reminder of how easily the logic of commerce […]

Gitanjali

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;Where knowledge is free;Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;Where words come out from the depth of truth;Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the […]

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 spaces where we stumble in our own lives. The same presence governs it all. If He wished, He could remain hidden forever, beyond the reach of our […]

Setting off

Every journey begins in fragments — scattered thoughts, questions, and reflections. For years, this space has been a place to wrestle with ideas: chaos and equilibrium, vision and design, meaning and doubt. But today, something shifts. This is where the fragments begin to take form. Where the exploration of self meets the exploration of startups, […]