Writing
A space for longer thoughts — on technology and leadership, on cinema and culture, on the places I have visited and the people I have met along the way.
In years of managing technology teams, the most important skill I have developed has nothing to do with code or architecture. It is the discipline of paying genuine attention — to clients, to teammates, to problems that haven't fully announced themselves yet.
Read when published →Three friends. Years of driving up to North Bengal. A recurring conversation about how difficult it was to find a place that felt genuinely welcoming rather than just commercially hospitable. And then, finally, the decision to stop looking and start building.
Read when published →The altitude hits you before you are ready for it. Leh airport is 3,500 metres above sea level and the air is thin enough that your first instinct is to sit down and simply breathe. I had come here with a camera and no plan. That turned out to be exactly right.
Read when published →I grew up in Kolkata watching Apur Sansar on a small television screen. I did not understand then what I was seeing. I understood only that something was being shown to me that had never been shown before — the interior life of an ordinary Bengali man, treated with absolute seriousness.
Read when published →Every roll of film gives you 36 frames. That constraint is not a limitation — it is a gift. When each frame costs you something, you think before you press the shutter. You wait. You let the moment ripen. Digital gave us abundance; film gave us attention.
Read when published →Stay in the loop
New essays are infrequent and deliberate. No spam — only writing I am genuinely proud of.