Ulhas Masaji sat down at the table across from me with two, white A4 sheets. He took out his pen that had been neatly tucked in the heart pocket of his Khadi shirt — a shirt he had spun himself, in true Gandhian fashion. He had taken the train from…

I remember when I was eighteen, I couldn’t wait to get out of my Mum and Dad’s house and be free, be independent, and “become a man”. And I did, I flew. I flew out to the United States of immigrants for my undergrad and thought I would never look…

The toughest days so far have not been the longest ones. They have been the ones filled with anxiety. Where control seems like an illusion. Where uncertainty paralyzes progress, and all you can do is wait, while anxiety engulfs the depths of your cranium. Our biggest investment — the magic…

I don’t have anything significant to say these days. Or maybe, saying “significant” stuff doesn’t cut it anymore. I could paint a perfectly plush picture on how the tides of entrepreneurship are rough but rewarding. “Exactly what I signed up for.” Or I could flip it, juxtaposing it with the…

I feel like books have a way of shaping the journey of our minds. And there are certain books that drop in at just the right time, leaving behind ideas and emotions that our minds bind to, which eventually shape the way we move forward. That is what I seek…

I’m currently locked out of my bathroom. The locksmith is an hour or so away, familiar with where I live and what he needs to do, because he solved the same problem yesterday. It’s early morning so my black coffee must do as an anti-bacterial mouthwash for now. Nothing like…

Have you heard of the difference between causal reasoning and effectual reasoning? Well I hadn’t either. But when I did, it gave me that tingly, joyous feeling that resonance beckons. It helped me make sense of the loneliness I had been feeling in the pursuit of entrepreneurship. Wait, don’t Google…

How I gained more for less than a fifth of the price of a top MBA — I quit the corporate world to pursue purpose in the social impact space. But I knew nothing about social impact. So, I thought of doing an MBA with a focus on social entrepreneurship. But that just didn’t ring right — how am I going to learn about poverty sitting in…

I have been on a nervy adventure of starting a social enterprise focused on multidimensional poverty here in India. For those that have been following, some of y’all are probably wondering — dude, get with it already. Noted, noted, almost there. For now, here’s where my heads at. When it…