Month: April 2026

Reclaiming Time on the Beach.

Bombay has few truly inclusive public spaces, and the nature of the sea is often not apparent to the everyday Mumbaikar, as the pace of life saturates the quotidian. Today evening, for a few minutes snatched from work, research and the creeping attention economy, i realised that life could potentially be paused from the perennial hustle. The fishy aroma, the boys playing cricket, soccer balls crisscrossing the sand on the beach. Ofcourse this stretch of the beach is away from the massy Juhu beach, behind a posh bookstore on Juhu Tara Road, where upmarket jogger’s made space with a cross section, hijabi girls reading novels, sari clad women in a group walking along the beach.

This city is fractal which is expected of a large global mega urban agglomeration. Deliciously varied and violent, the urban is a work in progress.

Food as Festive Markers: Nobo Borsho 2026

Probashi Pangs of Noboborsho.

Kalchaar is archived and marked on days of note, and celebrated through food. A good payesh is a reminder that culture is mobilised through the plate and palate. It is also a reminder that thanks to mobility, access to authentic Bengali fare (Kolkata variant) is also easier.

There is no bohiragoto, as my father is an ethnic Bihari from Shantiniketan and my Ma is a Bangal from Chembur, and I grew up in Oman.

Payesh/ Mishti Doi

Post War Sustainability Imperative

The value of sustainability spend is in the capacity one builds while doing your human rights due diligence training, POSH workshops, sustainability reports and your CSDDD preparation for next year. One report at a time, we curate the culture of safety in an era of war. Do good, by updating that human rights policy or HSE policy that no one bothers after probation, or by understanding that corporate reputation can be dented, irrespective of which crisis communication rockstar agency that you can hire which could have killed a bad story in a previous generation.

We are all worried regarding blockages of the maritime and the cardiac sort. And it is not good for our health, the financial kind. Lender and Sustainable finance towards electro states building (channelling Tooze) will be on the uptake as energy security will dominate the loan books.

The green transition is an ethical way of building the solar grids and transmission lines we need, without the accidents and violence.

Sustainability measures accumulate over time, create culture of psychological safety and resilience, the practice of it and not the definition.

Sustainability for the post war will mean less hype, more substance.