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An open letter to members of India’s Startup ecosystem
The seed for writing an essay on this topic originated from a smaller version of an essay I wrote last year. However, I was unsatisfied...
Apr 29, 2024
Empathy, Hypocrisy, and Human Nature: Insights from 'Behave' and Beyond
When I read Steve Jobs’ biography and learned about his efforts to restrict porn on the platform, it struck me. An Apple customer emailed...
Apr 21, 2024


What can we learn from Humans' shift from Hunter & Gatherers to Food Producers: a lesson from prehistory (7000 years)?
We've all encountered human inertia when it comes to shifting from old to new. This resistance applies to everything: new technologies,...
Apr 14, 2024


The Evolution of India’s Healthcare in 50 Years and the True Meaning of Convenience for India’s 90%?
Last week, I visited several Generic Drugs store outlets in Patna to learn and gather as many insights as possible. Just to reiterate, I...
Mar 17, 2024
Intuition vs Rationality: An underutilized superpower of Indian civilization
Steve Jobs attributed his success and creativity to intuition: the ability to understand what customers want without direct interactions...
Mar 3, 2024


The future is in the Past and the Curse of Domain Dependency
“The future is in the past” - Nassim Nicholas Taleb Presently, I find myself in the process of persuading the CEO of a unicorn startup to...
Feb 16, 2024
Fear of being a part of the crowd: why is today the best time to build modern Healthcare for billions?
In my village, when I was in school, till 8th (Dasaut, Bihar), in a batch of 50 students, I was among the intelligent ones, and hence I...
Jan 20, 2024
Capitalism Vs Charity: If demography is destiny, sympathy toward humans is a superpower
This morning, I boiled eggs for breakfast, and in doing so, memories of my village days at the age of 10 or 11 flooded back. Back then,...
Jan 14, 2024


The Future of India’s Healthcare (Leapfrogging India's Healthcare-part2)
This is Part 2 of Leapfrogging India’s Healthcare, titled - "The Future of India’s Healthcare." If you haven't read Part 1, you can find...
Jan 4, 2024


Rewind 2023: Why should we be grateful to be born as humans?
Note: Without questioning your intellectual ability, it is advisable to read this essay in a free mind or maybe print it because a. It is...
Dec 21, 2023
Leapfrogging India’s Healthcare: Lessons from the past 15 years
It's astonishing when you are self-aware; you question your every action. Recently, I discovered that while walking stairs (which I do...
Dec 16, 2023


Why should India’s Nation Health Authority (NHA) allow Private Players to manage PMJAY?
For the past 15 months, we've been driven by a singular mission: making quality healthcare accessible and affordable for 1.2 billion...
Dec 10, 2023
In a world filled with unnatural, should we complain about technological progress by citing natural
I can’t recall the date on which I got this aspiration to live 200+ years, but if you go and check my profile on Rainmatter Discuss...
Dec 2, 2023
The purpose of Health Insurance should be improving Patient outcomes not managing risk
In the past few months, I've noticed an increasing number of people discussing mental health problems, and I've developed some...
Nov 25, 2023


The future of India’s Health Insurance and why NHCX will unlock a trillion-dollar value
A few days ago, I came across a brilliant article about the National Health Claim Exchange (NHCX). Even though we are building everything...
Nov 5, 2023
If time, Control, Consciousness, and Reality all could be illusion - what is real in our world?
Initially, I started thinking about this essay from the perspective of control (verb). I have been contemplating control for a while now,...
Oct 28, 2023
Why Marc Andreessen’s techno-optimistic manifesto is a guide to unlocking India’s billion dreams?
As most of us harbor biases and are shaped by preconceived notions, when you find yourself holding a perspective that deviates from the...
Oct 23, 2023


What are the learnings for founders building for middle quintiles from Groww?
Last month, I wrote a short essay on a critical lesson that founders must learn from Zerodha’s success. The truth is, our startup - Jile...
Oct 22, 2023


Darkness is nothing but the absence of …….?
I have found myself in my village, Dasaut, Bihar, these past few days. My parents are deeply spiritual, believing that the world is...
Oct 18, 2023


Why is Direct Exposure to the Environment and Problems Important to Solving a Complex Problem?
Yesterday, we had the opportunity to meet and interact with Shradha Sharma, the founder of Your Story. Coming from Bihar and witnessing...
Oct 7, 2023
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