Hi!
If you had to describe me one word, choose ‘entrepreneur’. I’ve been part of numerous startup projects a few which never saw the light of the day, few which lost steam because I found something else to work on and one moderately successful one(at least it is still running and employing people). Right now I’m super busy working on a startup and will be so for the next few years.
I’ve previously worked in the microfinance, web, climate change activism and renewable energy research. I even interned in a cancer hospital and spent a semester on bacterial genetics research. Working implies six months full-time or over 12 months part-time. I love solving problems, working on projects and learning. Thus I’ve ended up exploring and drifting about quite a bit, which is no crime when you are 22 and never want to have a normal career. Drifting about I’ve traveled extensively in 22 Indian states and 7 countries. If you think I’m a bit strange, thank you.
This blog is a personal one where I write infrequently my observations on our amazingly entertaining Indian society, random musings on my life, and occasionally on entrepreneurship stuff. I used to do a bit of freelance journalism about climate change and web technology. Here are two sites I had fun writing for: UNDispatch and ThinkAboutIt.
Please google me up to find all my articles across all sites.
About BITS-Pilani, my university:
I’ve been lucky to have studied in Pilani and lived with some of the smartest and the most interesting people of my generation. Pilani played about 54.5% role in making me who I am today and I’m thankful.
Few news articles that mention me:
Disruptive Technologies Across Continents: Appeared in the Fortune magazine
A View Into India’s Gen Y: Online Fortune blog by Nadira Hira
Fresh help for startups : NEN Online
My favorite quotes:
“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
- Mark Twain
“Smile, tomorrow’s going to be worse.”
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
- Robert A. Heinlein
