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Recently, I had the pleasure of attending a family dinner hosted by Vishal Arora, a young CEO and a friend of my son Amol. His wife’s parents were also present. Although they all come from New Delhi, they seemed to carry with them something of the city’s older culture—refinement in living, warmth in social relationships and a deep appreciation of...

A recent knowledge-sharing session titled CSR Meets the Social Stock Exchange: A Journey Ahead, organised by Equippp Social Impact Technologies Limited (EQUIPPP) and held at Yashoda Hospitals, Hyderabad, recently introduced me to Dr. Bhaskar Chatterjee, a veteran IAS officer, who played a pioneering role in shaping India’s Corporate Social...

Recently, my son Amol brought me Ceylon tea from Sri Lanka, and my biomedical engineering pupil, Deepti Sai Prasad, presented me with an elegant Queen Elizabeth box of tea bags she brought from London. They could hardly have chosen a gift that would have delighted me more. I love tea. Whenever I am asked, "Tea or coffee?", my answer comes without...

I was invited to address nearly 500 students during their first week at GITAM University in Hyderabad. I was hosted by Dr. Motahar Reza, Director of the GITAM School of Science. A native of Murshidabad in West Bengal, Dr. Reza trained at IIT Kharagpur, worked across computational fluid mechanics, machine learning and data science, and joined...

My blog, Solidified Air, received an unexpectedly enthusiastic response. Readers remarked that it had drawn attention to something that everyone sees every day but very few consciously notice. Air surrounds us so completely that we almost forget it exists. Yet compressed air becomes steel-cutting power, lifts aircraft into the sky, drives...

There is a small seabird that weighs scarcely more than a hundred grams, yet every year it performs the longest migration known in the animal kingdom. The Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) leaves its breeding grounds in the Arctic and flies to the Antarctic from August to November, where summer awaits, before returning north during March to May to...

I have read Sri Aurobindo for many years, and my spiritual framework has been deeply shaped by his intellectual spirituality. From The Secret of the Veda to Savitri and The Life Divine, he produced perhaps the most profound exposition of Indian philosophical thought in the English language. Therefore, when I recently read Friedrich...

The second edition of the International Conference on AI in Healthcare was held at Yashoda Hospital in Hyderabad on 13-14 June 2026. Robotic cancer surgeon Dr. Sunkavalli Chinnababu led the event, which attracted 2,000 delegates, 375+ speakers, policymakers, innovators, healthcare leaders and media partners across six parallel halls. Covering...

I am enjoying re-reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. In Part I, in the chapter Of the Tree on the Mountainside", he uses the image of a lonely tree growing high on a mountain to describe the fate of those who strive to rise above the ordinary. This simple symbol expresses a profound truth. After all, in...

Tanya Seth is the quiet architect behind my blog and, in many ways, one of the unseen custodians of my intellectual journey. She created my website in May 2019 and has selflessly nurtured and maintained it ever since—not merely as a technical administrator, but as a thoughtful curator of ideas, memories and expression. More than preserving my...