My Study Room & Work Practice
My Study Room and Work Practice
Observe deeply. Think quietly. Trust slowly. Act with care.
I have spent thirty years moving through very different rooms of work. A few of those rooms are here. I have kept only what stayed with me — one distillation from each. Take whichever thought is useful to you.
Observe closely.
Write honestly.
Trust slowly.
01 Entertainment, Personalities & Branded Culture
The room: ABCL · Arvind Entertainment
What happened there: movies, music, celebrity management, branded entertainment, family entertainment destinations
What stayed
People do not remember production. They remember how a moment made them feel — and who they became for a few minutes inside that experience.
02 Service, Systems & Organisational Behaviour
The room: iCall (Adani Group)
What happened there: customer service, BPO operations, process implementation, people systems
What stayed
Organisations are felt most clearly at the point of pressure. A process is only as strong as the people expected to carry it.
03 Digital Entertainment, Alliances & Scale
The room: Reliance Entertainment
What happened there: digital entertainment, gaming, strategic alliances, retail roll-outs, new verticals
What stayed
Ideas do not become real because they are exciting. They become real when systems, people, partners and timing begin to move together.
04 Enterprise, Food Systems & Strategic Transition
The room: Anil Limited
What happened there: food ingredients, ready-to-eat, international alliances, new market entry
What stayed
Transition is never only strategic. It is emotional. Organisations must first believe they are allowed to become something else.
05 International Practice & Human Systems
The room: Speridian Technologies, Dubai
The terrain: MENA — government, banks, hospitality; assignments in Kenya, Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama and New York
What stayed
Countries change, markets change, business etiquette changes. Human motivations remain surprisingly familiar.
06 Entrepreneurship, Failure & Responsibility
The ventures: shrimp farming · Kenya food distribution · powdered beverages
The nature of it: independent practice — ventures that worked, and ventures that taught
What stayed
A good idea, a viable business and the discipline required to survive reality are three different things.
07 Agriculture & Living Systems
The room: Happy Gardens · Demai Greens
What happened there: hydroponics, aeroponics, seasonal vegetables, trees
What stayed
Nature does not negotiate with ambition. It responds to patience, continuity and care.
08 Sports Event Thinking
The arena: large sporting events · government interfaces
What happened there: protocol, ceremonies, team systems, field thinking
What stayed
The visible event is only the outcome. The real work happens in the invisible systems that make it possible.
09 Writing, Stories & Witness
What happened there: STILLS · Kabir Vaidya · Come, Sit — Just Ask · The Quiet Signal · Axiom Stories · Books across different genres
What stayed
Experience becomes useful only when it is observed carefully, connected honestly and shared without noise.
Today
Four continuing practices — Writing, the Storytelling Studio (Axiom), Green Infrastructure, and Consulting. Not separate careers: different expressions of one enquiry — how do people, organisations and living systems grow with clarity and purpose?
Now growing · Demai Greens
A tree nursery taking root at Demai, a village a hundred kilometres from Ahmedabad — native trees raised from seed, sapling, graft and tissue culture, on fertigation and reverse-osmosis water, because roots grow faster and healthier in clean water. The trade is unorganised; we are bringing science, sincerity and transparency to it. More grows from here.
Alongside, I continue to offer a quiet advisory eye on large-format events, sports systems and public-facing experiences — only where the fit feels right.
If a thought needs another chair
If you are building something — a project, an idea, a team, a story, a farm, an institution — and think a different pair of eyes might help, I am genuinely open. Strategy, writing, advisory, collaboration, or simply a conversation that does not follow the agenda. If something here caught your attention, it probably means we are reading the same kinds of rooms.