emotional resilience
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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.…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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What Is Ashtanga Vinyasa Really Teaching You? Beyond Sweat, Stretch and Strength
If you search online for Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga, you will mostly see photos of impossibly bendy bodies folding into shapes that look more like origami than human anatomy. When I first walked into an Ashtanga Vinyasa class, I expected a fitness challenge. What I found was something more unsettling and more useful. I found a…
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Na To Karvan Ki Talash Hai (Ishq Jalakar) Lyrics: Meaning & Translation
Yesterday, I walked into Dhurandhar expecting a sharp spy thriller. I walked out carrying a private Sufi sermon in my chest. That sermon was a song: “Ishq Jalakar (Karvaan) – Na To Karvan Ki Talash Hai”. As the cinema vibrated with that familiar refrain, echoing the old qawwali “Na To Karvan Ki Talash Hai”, I…