
I grew up witnessing households around me struggle for things most people take for granted: electricity, clean cooking energy, basic healthcare. And the systems meant to reach them falling short in ways that were entirely predictable. For more than twenty years that has shaped every significant decision I have made about where to work and what to work on.
Being incorrigibly curious helps. These problems rarely yield to a single discipline or a single lens. A passion for technology, a weakness for exotic themes like philosophy and metacognition, ideas with no obvious connection to what I do professionally, reading widely across all of it. All of it kept finding its way back into the work in ways that were hard to imagine and difficult to explain.
This site is where all of it often finds home — start with who I am, see what I’m doing now, or wander through twenty years of archive.
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Word on Water
I love reading and I love exploring bookshops. Word on the Water, a barge bookshop on Regent’s Canal, is quirky and cute. The shelves…
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Promise to never look away again
Why do we even need to visit historical concentration camps or genocide memorials?Why do we visit places that hold so much pain?Because they serve…
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A $179 Million Carbon Market Lesson: KOKO Networks and Its Clean Cooking Play
KOKO Networks is a company I have cited many times as an example of what clean cooking success looks like. Founded in Kenya in…
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What I Read in 2025
As usual, my last year’s reading was split between deliberate explorations and guilty pleasures. The thrillers, murder mysteries, and crime fiction were my airport…
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Sankalp Bharat 2025
Last Friday, I moderated the opening plenary of the Sankalp Bharat 2025 to explore the next phase of transformation of Indian agriculture. We didn’t just discuss problems but mapped…
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RESTORE 2025
The Economics of Restoration is complicated. And, the context specific nature of interventions make it even more difficult to have commercial capital flow in…
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Beyond Debt: How the USD 125 Billion Tropical Fund Redefines Climate Finance for Forest Conservation
Our forests are essential for maintaining Earth’s climate balance, as they absorb around 16 billion metric tonnes of CO₂ annually (gross removals) and store…
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From food security to global leadership
Indian AgTech have huge potential to not only transform Indian agriculture but can also make India a leader in solving the global agriculture and…
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Clean Cooking and Carbon Markets
The one thematic area that has remained consistent throughout my professional journey is access to clean cooking energy. What started as exploring BoP markets…