What I value

I’d rather be curious than certain.

School spent years telling me what I wasn’t good at. Somewhere in there I made a quiet decision that’s shaped everything since: a report card measures one narrow thing and calls it the whole person, and I didn’t have to accept the verdict. That’s not defiance for its own sake — it’s a preference for curiosity over certainty, for how you see over how you score.

I come from a family of people who built their own things — a builder, a lawyer, both self-made. So I trust building over talking, and effort with a point over effort for appearances. I never rebelled against hard work; I rebelled against work that led nowhere.

I never rebelled against effort. Only against effort that led nowhere.

The value I’m least likely to preach and most likely to live is patience. Coming home from London I wanted to start my own agency immediately; instead I listened to an old piece of Marwari wisdom — before you lead, learn to follow — and spent a decade earning the right to. Knowing when to wait, when to follow, and when to break is, I think, the whole game.

And underneath all of it: I want to be seen for how I see the world, not for the boxes I fit. That’s what ₹11 was really about at 17, and it’s still, honestly, what the work is about now.