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...
by Vedansh Gupta | Feb 20, 2026 | Memoir
My first national park as an adult was Ranthambore, December 2021. The world was just exhaling after the first wave, and I had just been handed the greatest gift of my life, twin daughters. That trip was supposed to be one thing. It became something else entirely. A...
by Vedansh Gupta | Feb 13, 2026 | Memoir
Three words. That is all it takes. Whether it comes from your guide leaning forward in his seat, your driver cutting the engine suddenly, a friend grabbing your arm, or that quiet instinct somewhere in your chest that knows before your eyes do, nothing prepares you...
by Vedansh Gupta | Feb 6, 2026 | Memoir
My work involves paper. Supply chains, pricing, shipments, the invisible infrastructure that keeps businesses running. It is meaningful work and I am proud of it. But if you asked me what truly keeps the light on inside, the answer would have nothing to do with any of...
by Vedansh Gupta | Jan 30, 2026 | Memoir
My work takes me far. Distant cities, unfamiliar time zones, weeks away from the life I have built at home. I am not complaining. I am genuinely grateful for every bit of it. The ability to build something, to create an organisation and leave behind something that...
by Vedansh Gupta | Jan 23, 2026 | Memoir
We live in a world of our own making. A world our minds choose to believe, a reality we construct brick by brick, thought by thought. Not long ago I found myself in Nairobi on a work trip, selling paper. I carved out two days to visit a bush hide in Shampole, a place...
