Centre Sage

"We have reached a point where we are unable to solve a problem if it isn't defined as a term." In the span of a few short years, Abhishek Patil has quickly become an authority on growth marketing in India's Silicone Valley - Bangalore. On this episode of Centre Sage, I catch up with Abhishek - who now works on everything Product and Growth at CRED to cover a diverse range of topics around Entrepreneurship, Growth Marketing and Product Management. Abhishek takes us through the career he has built thus far from choosing to start out as an entrepreneur in the advertisement space instead of choosing to do an MBA

"Design is the simplest way of getting from Point A to Point B." Amit Mirchandani is the Creative Director of Lucid - an award winning design studio, the Co-Founder of Chinita and an all round design guru. Having won numerous design awards over the years, on episode 6 of Centre Sage I sit down with Amit to talk about a diverse range of topics centered around design in India. We take a hard look at the current state at of affairs in South Asia through the lens of a designer, freelancing for design in the digital age, dispel common misinformation about design being an artistic and not a scientific endeavor

Saurav Arya is one of India's first digital nomads, embracing a travel centric way of working and living for over a decade. Apart from being a hardcore traveler - having traveled to 91 countries as of January 2020, Saurav has also mastered the art of setting up a fully automated business, become an award winning hostpreneur and manages multiple passive income channels.  On this episode of Centre Sage, Saurav and I talk about traveling the world on an Indian Passport

Join me on this episode of Centre Sage where I talk to Lakshman Badami and Vanessa Zwick on their new venture - Be Animal. We attempt to retrace the Be Animal journey from peddling postcards on the beaches of Goa in an effort to raise funds for wildlife conservation to breaking vegan stereotypes, the Tesla Cyber Truck, the livability of Indian cities as compared to Europe and building environmental awareness among Gen Z-ers. If you haven't already realized Be Animal has many amazing ideas but also have the ability of telling their stories in a very zen vocal tone. So crank up the volume, sit back and

Deena's got an incredible story and I have been asking her to be a sage on the podcast for a while now. 4 weeks and a restraining order later, I finally sit down with Ms Deena Pinto, Bangalore's OG fashion and lifestyle influencer. Deena narrates the landscape of lifestyle & fashion blogging in the pre Instagram era, she unearths the ancient digitalscapes of HTML blogs, Foursquare, Orkut, the harmfully artificial lives that modern influencers lead and how she overcame incredible odds to setup the highly successful "skinnygirldiariez" brand from scratch

Shankar "Shunky" Chugani is one of Bangalore city's most well known comics. I catch up with Shunky on his busy schedule, growing up as the class clown in Coonoor, going to open mics for 6 years, Comicstaan, and making a habit of puking before going up on stage. We also talk about the nascent stand up comedy scene in India and how far it's come in the last 6 years. Lights, camera, let's roll one!

Always wanted to know what a full time theatre and performance artist does for a living? I sit down with my good friend Deepti Bhaskar - a well theatre artist extraordinaire and trained classical musician from Bangalore who's been at the fore of the Bangalore's theatre movement for over a decade now! We talk shop and pop (theatre and music) in Bangalore city, the evolution of the theatre scene in Bangalore and what the prospects for someone considering a career in theatre looks like. Oh and I also get called a creep multiple times by my very first guest - in a totally endearing way of course

Hey everybody, thanks for tuning into Centre Sage - the podcast where I scour the corners of our planet in search of modern day sages and talk to them about their coolest projects and achievements. I do all of this in the hopes that we get to pick up a smart thing or two that we can implement in our everyday lives. I introduce you to the podcast in this episode, talk about modern day sages, growing your appendages by 10 inches and the thought process behind the setting up of this podcast. Sit back, this is going to be a fun ride! Bonus points if you can count the number of car honks in the background