Long-form writing on life, work, self-hood, culture, power, and the search for meaning.
Ideas, lived experience, sharp observations, inconvenient truths, spiritual inquiry, leadership lessons, and the occasional intellectual punch in the face. These essays examine life as it is lived — in boardrooms and on highways. They explore life in relationships and in solitude. They also delve into the uneasy space between ambition and meaning.
Latest Essays
The Great Urban Border War – SoBo vs. Suburbs
An examination of Mumbai’s South Bombay (SoBo) vs. Suburbs social divide, the East vs. West railway property tax, and its global urban equivalents in New York, London, and Chicago. Discover…
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2026 Career Matrix: Super-Specialization, General Management, and the AI Catalyst
Evaluate the shifting dynamic of the specialist vs generalist career path. This deep dive examines how AI in the workplace impacts talent management, employee retention, and L&D. Learn why tomorrow’s…
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The Graveyard of Sure Things — In Conversation
An AI-hosted conversation about the essay “The Graveyard of Sure Things.” The thinking is mine; the conversation is theirs. Read the full piece on sumirnagar.com.
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The Question Nobody Funds
“Should we?” — two words, and the most expensive question in technology, because almost nobody is paid to ask it. The final essay in The Cost of Better on the…
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There Is No Cloud
The cloud sounds like weather and runs like a foundry. The hidden environmental cost of AI data centres — in power, water, and the towns that pay the bill.
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The Graveyard of Sure Things
I have spent forty years watching technologies arrive announced as the destination — the place the whole industry was finally heading — and then, one by one, be revealed as…
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