October 10, 2025
B.iPh and A.iPh — Before iPhone and After iPhone
History often divides itself with invisible thresholds — moments after which the world can never be the same. The iPhone is one such threshold. If the calendar once…
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October 10, 2025
B.iP and A.iP — Before iPod and After iPod
The iPod has changed music forever. When the Gregorian Calendar Committee next meets, perhaps it should consider revising its ancient system of B.C. and A.D. to include two…
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…
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…
February 21, 2021
The Sun chants Om
A meditation on vibration, equilibrium, and the cosmic orchestra of existence. This might be a subject of debate. But then, truth often begins where arguments end. Let us…
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.…
September 9, 2020
Hello World. From Home.
Resilience, reflection, and rediscovery in the age of isolation. Maybe it’s just the calling of our times — that strange, unwelcome reminder that the world is not invincible.…
December 16, 2016
The Grand Tour: Repurposing life.
How failure, ego, and rebirth make the journey worthwhile. I don’t usually write reviews. But by the end of this one, you’ll see — this isn’t really about…
December 11, 2016
And the journey continues
When one cycle ends, another begins — not in technology, but in thought. The age of the gadget may be over, but the journey — the human journey…
December 8, 2016
R. I. P. The Gadget
The slow, inevitable death of human fascination with our own toys. Oh yes — the death of the gadget is upon us. I’ve written about it, ranted about…
July 29, 2016
The ever widening gap in technology
Progress has made machines smarter. But has it made us any wiser? I write about technology. But today, I must write about the ever-widening gap that separates man…
July 27, 2016
The CEO who delivered
A fable about leadership, maternity leave, M&A fever and the cost of bad optics. Alyssa Williams arrived with fanfare. A charismatic hire from a respected outfit, she brought…
June 30, 2016
20 years hence, the internet is still coughing
Two decades of “Digital India” — and the Wi-Fi still drops during uploads. On the eve of Digital India Week, my internet stopped working. Poetic, isn’t it? Here…
April 1, 2016
Fool’s Paradise
How April Fool’s Day mocks the day of creation — and how the calendar conquered consciousness. Every year, on April 1st, the world laughs. Pranks are played, headlines…
August 24, 2015
A penny for your thoughts
When ideas become currency, thought itself becomes cheap. Let me begin bluntly. We’ve destroyed journalism. Not by censorship, not by politics — but by profit and pretense. Once…
August 24, 2015
Stars owned the past. Geeks will rule the future.
From borrowed glamour to original thought — the internet’s true revolution has just begun. A friend reached out today, asking if I could write something to help creators…
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…
June 28, 2015
Change, noise and social progression.
When everyone is changing, who’s really progressing? It is in human nature to believe that change is good. That evolution equals progress. That breaking things faster somehow means…
June 14, 2015
Personalisation and Privacy
In the age of algorithms, individuality must become sacred again. Technology was supposed to bring us closer — not make us predictable. Yet somewhere between personalisation and profiling,…