I have never been very good at being just one thing.
I've spent more than two decades moving between ideas, people, cultures, cameras, conversations, boardrooms, stages — and occasionally complete chaos. Different worlds, different roles. The reason has stayed constant.
"I like making things happen that deserve to happen."
The constant across every roleI enjoy finding the invisible thread between unrelated things — an artist and an audience, an idea and its moment.
Curation isn't selection. It's making meaning out of possibilities.
I don't romanticise entrepreneurship. I enjoy building — teams, ideas, IP, collaborations — sometimes simply because I can't understand why it doesn't already exist.
Entrepreneurship, to me, is curiosity with responsibility attached.
Long before strategy decks and brand conversations, there was a camera. Storytelling connects almost everything I do.
Data may convince us. Stories make us care.
I come from a family of academicians and versatile talents — and I inherited a few of those instincts, not by compulsion, but through passion. Somewhere around the age of five, a camera entered the story, and a darkroom taught me something I'd understand much later.
What you see depends enormously on how you choose to look at it.
I studied at IIMC New Delhi, continued into art and culture studies at Leiden University, and filmmaking at the London Film School. Some of my most important education happened outside classrooms — backstage, during difficult productions, beside people who made me question what I thought I knew.
I was fortunate to spend a year as one of 15 students in India undertaking a direct internship under Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. That experience left me with something more enduring than a line on a résumé: dreams matter, but what you do with them matters more.
Purpose has to outlive profit — or the profit was never the point.End-to-end image reserved
Listen first. Understand the story beneath the story. I'm instinctive by nature, strategic by profession — known as a solution provider under crucial circumstances.
Not because I always know the answer. Because I am rarely afraid of looking for one.
My work has moved through media, culture, development and technology. The medium keeps changing. The why hasn't — it started with LAKSHYA and continues today through THE BLUE TICK.
I want ideas to succeed commercially. I also want them to mean something after the invoice is paid.
I don't believe life was designed to be lived in one neat vertical. Business strategy one day, the framing of a photograph the next — I don't see these as distractions from one another. They are the point.
There are enough ideas in the world. What we lack are people willing to carry them from "someone should" to "we did." That space — between imagination and execution — is usually where you'll find me.
The moment I believe I know everything about something is probably when I should stop doing it.
Technology changes. Algorithms change. Platforms disappear. Human connection remains.
Most people notice when something feels right. Very few know which tiny decisions made it feel that way.
It's memory, identity, conversation and continuity. Treating it responsibly matters.
A brilliant thought that never leaves the room is still only a thought.
I would rather become a beginner again than become comfortable being irrelevant.
Someone once gave me access, time and belief. Whenever possible, I should do the same for someone else.
You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
Dream. Then give the dream a deadline, a team and the courage to begin.
Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument.
Build without bitterness. What you construct from adversity is what defines you.
I am still becoming.
There are things I've built that I'm proud of, and things I'd build completely differently today. I wouldn't edit any of them out — because after all the titles, projects and stages, I still want the same thing that excited the five-year-old with a camera: to discover something I haven't seen before, and find an interesting way to share it with the world.
This is Me. The Journey So Far →