The Second-Owner Decade
India's next ownership wave may be built through used cars, reliable transfers, and support that makes ownership easier to enter.
Essays
Published writing
The EMI Comes Before the Car
India's used-car market grows when financing makes ownership reachable and lenders can understand the car they are backing.
The Greenest Car May Already Exist
Keeping existing vehicles useful can reduce the need for new manufacturing, but reuse only works when buyers can trust the vehicle and its history.
What India Must Learn From Its Road Deaths
Drivers make mistakes. India needs road-safety systems that can see what happened, respond, and learn before the same failure kills again.
Why We Are Not Selling Cars
The lasting business in mobility is not moving a vehicle once. It is making ownership more certain.
Companies Scale at the Speed They Learn
Hiring can add capacity, but a company scales well when it can see reality, learn, and change as complexity grows.
AI Changes the Shape of the Company
Adding AI to an old workflow can make it better. The deeper change is to rebuild how a company carries context and makes decisions.
We Deleted Every Title Except Builder
Cars24 changed its old title system. The deeper question is how to give people closer to a problem the context and responsibility to act.
The Conversation Before the Postmortem
Delay and weak accountability often show up as process problems. Some begin earlier, when people do not trust one another enough to speak plainly or commit to a decision.
AI Will Let India Export Consumer Companies
SaaS helped Indian companies sell software around the world. AI may make it easier for India-born consumer companies to carry operating knowledge across markets.
The Paranoid Survive. The Regulated Thrive.
Stay alert to the work and steady in yourself. Andy Grove gave us half the sentence. The other half is what helps us keep our judgment.
Who Taught You to Want This?
Much of what we call ambition is shaped by peers, rivals, and status systems before we recognize their influence. Asking where a desire came from can help us choose what to pursue.
Before You Call Someone Careless
We often explain our own behavior with context and other people's with character. That shortcut can make us miss the pressures and conditions that shaped what happened.
