A Few Days With the Indian Army I studied in Presentation Convent in Jammu cantonment and there was a tank outside my school. Every day I’d walk past it and wonder what army life was really like. Our tenants at home had always been army officers, moving from state to state, place to place, and
I read this question somewhere recently: What does a geode have to do with coaching? Here’s my take. A geode looks like nothing from the outside. It’s just a plain, dull rock. But crack it open, and there’s a cave of beautiful crystals inside sometimes purple amethyst, sometimes smoky quartz, sometimes blue celestine, formed slowly
There is the time on our calendars, and then there is the other kind of time. Two of my favourite thinkers arrive here from very different directions, one a surrealist painter, the other a spiritual teacher, and somehow they meet at the same point. Salvador Dalí knew this intuitively, in The Persistence of Memory, clocks
A Shift in Being Retreat Reflection on our Deep Coaching Retreat in Lisbon, Portugal (May 2026) Last month, I attended a retreat unlike any I’ve been to before. It was called A Shift in Being, hosted by the Centre for Transformational Coaching and led by Leon VanderPol. The invitation was simple but also profound –
I’ve seen this in both organisational and community spaces. We step in with good intent, but without realising it, it becomes one side giving and the other receiving. There’s an invisible boundary that forms. On one side, the people with resources, plans, and solutions. On the other, the people those plans are meant to serve.
I had the privilege of interviewing Nicholas Janni as part of Back To Source ReSource Sessions. It took me a while to find the right words, some conversations are about feeling the words rather than verbalising. Nicholas is a leadership development practitioner, coach and author whose work centres around Presence and what it means to
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What a flock of geese taught me about leadership In one of our soulful meetings recently, a colleague shared something that sounded so deep and profound. When geese fly in formation, they take turns at the front. The one leading breaks the resistance for everyone behind. And when it gets tired, it simply moves back
Three pages that change my mornings every single day I recently returned to a book that has stayed with me for years, The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. I picked it up again from the Coforge Public Library in Hyderabad, and it brought back my ritual: Morning Pages. The practice is very simple. Nice diary
I was recently invited by Bela Maitrya, a coach and host of the podcast Basic Baatein, for a conversation and I’m glad I said yes. We talked about my journey from corporate life to coaching, the ongoing process of self-discovery, the role spirituality plays in how I show up, and what it means for women
The most basic ritual humans have been sharing for thousands of years is the talking circle. In this simple practice, everyone is invited to take some time to be present. Following this, the circle is opened for people to share whatever is most alive for them – whatever is calling for their attention. Be it
Sharing a poem by Dorothy Hunt Do you think peace requires an end to war?Or tigers eating only vegetables?Does peace require an absence fromyour boss, your spouse, yourself?…Do you think peace will come some other place than here?Some other time than Now? In some other heart than yours? Peace is this moment without judgment.That is all.
You are not alone, I feel the same way. I know storms don’t last forever and this too shall pass. Nothing is permanent, everything is always in a state of flux. After a few days of complete lockdown, I found myself in a state of fear – fear of my loved ones getting infected, fear
