We have always heard journaling or writing your diary is a very good habit. Nobody’s explained to me how it helps or why it’s such a good habit. Having done it for some time, I finally found an answer to both those questions. This is how it’s worked for me. The Tetris Effect …

The months after launch were a real struggle. We would get very few inquiries and orders. Closing every inquiry would become a challenge and a struggle. One day, we got an inquiry for a solitaire that was listed on our website from a jeweller who was based in Delhi. We…

My biggest passion in life is sports. I am a terrible player though. Bad at pretty much every sport and I have tried many. Inspite of my poor sporting skills, I have a fanatic interest in many sports. Including the likes of NBA, Baseball, American Football, Cycling etc. My interest…

Statutory Warning – If you have never enjoyed a book deeply, you will never appreciate this post. However, if you read on and understand the kind of special joy in can create, it might just motivate you to read more and find a book which you love. The kind we…

I love old hindi film songs. Was watching a song from Khamoshi starring Waheeda Rehman and Rajesh Khanna. It was so moving that I ended up watching the movie. It’s such a sad movie and she is so stunning. I have a feeling I am going to go on a binge watching mode. Watching more movies like Khamoshi. I am a happy and positive person but there’s something about such sad movies which I really like. And a lot of Waheeda Rehman movies as well.

My first job after my MBA was with Onida ( remember the Devil ) as an MT ( Management Trainee) . There were 15 of us from IIML, IIMB and NITIE in the MT batch. I doubt if any one of us was happy to have landed there. It was…

Every time I see someone representing India, I envy them. This includes sportspeople, soldiers , diplomats etc. I have the highest respect for spies. I feel the same way for people who serve the country in other honourable ways. This includes civil servants, freedom fighters, scientists, bureaucrats etc. Even politicians…

This post is about the principle of Give and Take. This is the name of an awesome book written by Adam Grant. This is one of those books which changed my life in a profound way. Over the last ten odd years, I have tried practising it as a way…

In the last few months, there has been a sudden surge in the interest people have started to take in CaratLane. In large part it has to do with people suddenly discovering, that CaratLane was at a 2000+ crore revenue run rate with high profitability. A lot of people have…