For most of my career in real estate, sustainability was a conversation I had after the important conversations were finished. After the land cost, the FSI calculations, the sales velocity projections, the bank’s sanction letter. After all of that, someone would mention GRIHA or LEED, and we would figure out how much of it we […]
Nobody told me that running two companies would be less like juggling and more like speaking two languages simultaneously. I built Techton Life Spaces first. Real estate is a world of physical certainty where you have a land you can walk on, concrete you can touch, a date on a possession letter you can hold […]
I find genuinely difficult to describe to people who have not experienced it that the feeling that the space itself is a participant in the work. The layout matters. The airflow matters. The distance between the lab bench and the storage area, the quality of the flooring, the placement of the ventilation all of it […]
I’ve seen people go through a cancer diagnosis and honestly it changed how I think about medicine entirely. The oncologist ordered a genomic panel. Two weeks later, the results came back showing a specific mutation that ruled out the standard first-line treatment, the one most patients with that diagnosis receive and pointed toward a targeted […]
Whenever I visit a new city be it for business, for a site visit or for a conference, I like to spend at least some of my time exploring the place. I want to see where people actually live, where they get their morning chai, where they park, how far the pharmacy is from the […]
I would never pretend to know everything about the inner workings of a monoclonal antibody. However, I construct things, whether be it buildings or biological structures and they both have taught me the same lesson which is the biggest leaps do not come from working harder within an existing system. They come from questioning the […]
Conversations about real estate is not just about the location, it’s also about the street, the neighbourhood, the proximity to a metro station. I think about this often, sitting at the overlap of two businesses that most people would never put in the same sentence. One builds homes and commercial spaces. The other works in […]
“Should I wait for rates to come down?” The question has stuck with me because it wasn’t just about EMIs or affordability calculations. It was about fear. About trying to time something that no one, not economists, not central banks and not even the RBI can fully predict. And yet, every single day, thousands of […]
I run two companies that, on the surface look like they have nothing in common. One builds homes and the other works in biotechnology, specifically in biopolymers and bio-based solutions for agriculture, aquaculture, and sustainability. Concrete and microbes. Steel and fermentation. You would not necessarily seat them at the same table. But I have come […]
I have spent parts of my life watching transfer of property, skylines shift, ambitions rise and people’s dreams being fulfilled. But I have never seen a year quite like 2026. The foundation of many businesses in commercial real estate is changing rapidly. Let me be direct, the previous method of doing business is dead or […]