by Vedansh Gupta | Apr 5, 2026 | Uncategorized
My last piece was about stepping away from the familiar, about unlearning the frame. This one follows naturally from there. Varanasi has been the spiritual centre of our civilisation for longer than most cities have existed. People arrive from every corner of the...
by Vedansh Gupta | Apr 5, 2026 | Uncategorized
In November 2021, a year into the pandemic, I decided to finally act on something I had been circling for a while. Wildlife photography. My daughters had arrived in July that year, and my wife had travelled to Bangalore for six weeks to be with her mother, to find...
by Vedansh Gupta | Mar 20, 2026 | Memoir
The first two weeks of March 2026 were, to put it mildly, the most turbulent stretch our business had faced in recent memory. We had just closed record numbers in January and February. After two years of absorbing blow after blow, we were finally on the road back....
by Vedansh Gupta | Mar 6, 2026 | Memoir
People ask me all the time. The question arrives at dinners, at networking events, on flights, in the middle of conversations that are going perfectly well until it does not. What do you do? I sell paper. The reaction is always the same. A pause. A slight tilt of the...
by Vedansh Gupta | Feb 27, 2026 | Memoir
I have always believed my childhood was difficult, though the memories have softened with time into something more like impressions than clear images. There was pressure. There was competition. Excellence was the baseline expectation, and falling short of it had...
