My Insights, My Experiences

A few months ago, I found myself in two very different conversations about artificial intelligence within the same week. In the first, a young colleague spoke about AI with the kind of enthusiasm I associate with genuinely transformative technology – how it had changed the way she researched, wrote, and even thought through problems. In the second, a close friend, someone not in technology at all, spoke about AI with real unease – about jobs, about misinformation, about a wor

For two decades, Indian real estate was essentially a six-city story. Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Bengaluru, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai. The rest of the country, home to over a billion people was treated as an afterthought. It was like a spillover market or a consolation prize for developers who couldn’t crack the metros. That mental model is now obsolete, and the investors who are still operating from it are going to miss one of the most significant wealth-creation opportunities in Ind

Over the last decade, I have had many conversations with developers, investors, and industry professionals about the role of technology in real estate. For a long time, the response was lukewarm at best. The sentiment was – yes, technology is useful, but real estate runs on relationships, on trust, on ground-level knowledge that no platform can replicate. That view is changing, and changing fast. What I find most interesting is that technology is no longer entering real estat

Delighted to be a Co-Chair at the GRI Warehousing, Logistics & Industrial Forum 2026, co-hosted with Khaitan & Co. on April 30, 2026 in Mumbai along with Alok Jain, Managing Director, Blackstone, Anupam Yadav, Director, Capital Markets, Panattoni, Manoj Tripathi, CEO, TCI - Transport Corporation of India, Rajat Garg, Head - Fund Management & Capital (India), ESR India, Siddhartha Roy, Chief Supply Chain Officer, Sugar Cosmetics and Deepak Jodhani, Partner | Corporate & Commer