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  • Life Coaching in India: Beyond Motivation Quotes to Real Inner Change

    Life Coaching in India: Beyond Motivation Quotes to Real Inner Change

    Life Coaching in India has become a phrase people say with a half-smile, as if it sits somewhere between therapy, TED Talks, and a friend who sends you “rise and shine” messages at 5 a.m. I understand the scepticism. If quotes could transform a life, half of us would be enlightened by now, and the…


  • Gender-Equal Justice in Mauritius: What World Religion Day Made Me See

    Gender-Equal Justice in Mauritius: What World Religion Day Made Me See

    I walked into the World Religion Day gathering today with the cautious curiosity I reserve for anything that uses a phrase like “reconceptualising justice”. It can sound like a conference room trying to sound like a conscience. The event was organised by the Bahá’í community, and the theme was quietly daring: “Reconceptualising Justice for a…


  • Why Every Indian Founder-CEO Needs an Executive Coach, Not Just an Advisor

    Why Every Indian Founder-CEO Needs an Executive Coach, Not Just an Advisor

    An executive coach for founders is not a luxury add-on for when things calm down. It is the calm. Indian founder-CEOs are building in a country where ambition is celebrated, rest is suspicious, and vulnerability is often mistaken for incompetence. Advisors are valuable, yes. They offer experience, introductions, and tactical guidance. But advice is external.…


  • When “Too Much Love” Is Actually a Wound: Understanding Obsession in Relationships

    When “Too Much Love” Is Actually a Wound: Understanding Obsession in Relationships

    Some people show overloving behaviour like they’re trying to keep a candle alive in a storm. They text a lot, check in constantly, remember tiny details you forgot you ever shared. Their care can feel like warmth, until it starts to feel like weight. And somewhere between “Aww” and “Arrey yaar”, you begin wondering if…


  • My Year Reflection, My Top 5 Lessons, and What 2025 Taught Me

    My Year Reflection, My Top 5 Lessons, and What 2025 Taught Me

    I woke up today with that familiar end-of-year feeling. Part relief, part tenderness, part quiet dread about the expectations we place on a calendar date. 31 December 2025 is not a magical door. It is a mirror. And mirrors, if you let them, do not flatter you. They show you what you have been rehearsing.…


  • My Book at Ganga Talao: When a Reader Turns Pages into Prayer

    My Book at Ganga Talao: When a Reader Turns Pages into Prayer

    A Mauritian reader sent me photographs of my book “The Tri-Intelligence Leadership: Mastering IQ, EQ, and SQ” from Ganga Talao (Grand Bassin, Mauritius). Temples stood in the background. Deities watched with that familiar stillness that makes your mind feel a little too loud. I looked at those pictures longer than I expected. Not because I…


  • You’re Not Afraid of Death. You’re Afraid of Losing What You Think Is Yours

    You’re Not Afraid of Death. You’re Afraid of Losing What You Think Is Yours

    I often hear people say, “I’m scared of death.” It sounds honest, even brave. But in coaching rooms and quiet conversations, a different confession emerges. What they fear is not the last breath. What they fear is the stripping away—the fear of loss: of identity, connection, control, meaning, and the life they recognize as their…


  • Before the year ends, I want to say…

    Before the year ends, I want to say…

    Before the year ends, I want to say… You do not need to “become a new person” to be worthy of a new chapter. Every December, the world turns into a stadium of comparison. We scroll through highlight reels, sales banners, “year-in-review” posts, and motivational speeches that sound like they were written by someone who…


  • World Meditation Day: The Quiet Rebellion Your Mind Needs

    World Meditation Day: The Quiet Rebellion Your Mind Needs

    World Meditation Day has a funny way of exposing our favourite modern habit: we would rather download a new app than sit with our own mind for ten quiet minutes. I remember a client in Mumbai telling me, half-proud and half-exhausted, “I’m always on.” She meant emails, family expectations, WhatsApp groups, traffic, deadlines, and a…


  • My Take on the 5 Niyamas in Yoga: Five Inner Vows for Modern Minds

    My Take on the 5 Niyamas in Yoga: Five Inner Vows for Modern Minds

    There is a reason the Niyamas feel almost inconvenient today. They are not motivational quotes. They are not aesthetic spirituality. They are inner disciplines that question the very way we live, consume, perform, and pretend. If the Yamas are how I behave with the world, the 5 Niyamas in yoga are how I behave with…