I am an engineer by training, and an accidental venture capitalist by profession. When a young person asks me about the “secret of my success”, I’m at a loss for words. Firstly, I don’t consider myself particularly successful. And secondly, …

India followed the lunisolar calendars traced back to 1st millennium BCE. The British Empire adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1752 and with their radius of influence gradually influenced its adoption in India. Today most people in India have only a …

2017 was a year of significant change for the Indian startup ecosystem. While certain trends continued- we also saw greater cautiousness from both founders and investors, renewed focus on the path to profitability, and a shedding of exuberance — a …

2017 started with news of Indian economy surpassing UK’s [in terms of GDP] for the first time in 150 years — a signal that the nation’s economic flywheel is in motion.

What followed that …

I was fortunate to have a father who was a natural story-teller and never disappointed my insatiable requests for one more story. Any child growing up in India knows the story of Ekalavya from the epic Mahabharata. A self-trained archer …

The Turing Test, a measure of determining whether a machine could demonstrate human intelligence, formed the premise of Alex Garland’s spooky thriller Ex Machina. In the real world perhaps we are not too far away away from an …