My Insights, My Experiences

For most of my career, I would have told you, without much hesitation, that the best use of my time was time spent working. There was always a deal to think about, a market to track, a decision that needed sharper thinking. Anything outside of that felt, if I am honest, a little indulgent. I do not think that way anymore, and I suspect a lot of people in demanding careers go through a similar evolution, even if they arrive at it from different directions. What changed for me

Twenty-five years is long enough that I sometimes have to pause and do the arithmetic to believe it myself. When I started out in real estate, the industry looked nothing like it does today – not in scale, not in sophistication, and certainly not in the way capital moved through it. And yet, as I reflect on the journey, what strikes me as much as the change is how much has stayed exactly the same. I think that tension between transformation and continuity is worth examining h

I was recently part of a panel discussion on the evolving REIT landscape in India, and I kept thinking of the confluence of regulatory change, new market entrants, and asset-level realities that is creating a moment of genuine reckoning for this asset class. Indian REITs have indeed come a long way. Market capitalisation has crossed Rs 1 lakh crore, distributions have been consistent, and investor confidence has held through a challenging rate cycle. That is a credible track

I recently read the EY-Parthenon and CREDAI report on Generative AI in Indian Real Estate, released in June. It is a well-researched piece of work, and I found myself pausing on several findings, not because they were surprising, but because they put precise numbers to something many of us in the industry have been sensing for a while. The central argument is one I agree with: GenAI is no longer a concept to be evaluated at some future point. It is already beginning to separa

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