In December, 2020, I made the best decision of my life. I quit my job, and decided to start a mental healthcare platform. I had no specific idea about what to do. I just knew why I wanted to do it. I wanted to make minds lighter and hearts brighter…

We didn’t know what to expect. We were setting up a mental health stall at a large shopping festival in Bangalore in just a few days, but we wondered, is India ready for it? …

Imagine a world in which mental hygiene — the health of our thoughts, behaviors, and emotions — is dinner table conversation. Having discussions around how we process, interpret and react to ourselves and our environments is a measure of how mature we are. …

Reading Kishimi and Koga’s “The Courage to be Disliked”, leaves you feeling enlightened, yet reeling with questions. …

In his book “Principles”, Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s leading hedge fund, writes Pain + Reflection = Progress. I can wager that you remember most, if not all the painful moments in your life compared to the joyful ones. Why? I’m no scientist, so I can’t explain…

Growing up, I’d write quotes that struck a chord with me in a printed, leather-bound journal. One such quote read, “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward” (Martin Luther…

Central to the United States Declaration of Independence and the American Dream is the pursuit of happiness. Truth be told, I think what the founding fathers were really talking about is the pursuit of meaning. While happiness is ephemeral, dependent on external forces, meaning is perennial, cultivated by internal forces…

People underestimate the indispensable value of culture to the sustainability of an organization or their role in it — whether it’s job seekers, HR personnel or founders. That’s a grave mistake. Culture is the glue that holds the disparate people of an organization together and channels their energies and behaviors…

Talent Trumps Intelligence It’s terrifying when something, looked at differently, can lead to vastly disparate outcomes. If only we had known better, right? It’s something that scares me perhaps most of all — that I may not be seeing clearly enough. But all said and done, perennial, tumultuous periods of…