WORLD
93 cities. 16 countries. Still counting.
New Delhi
India · Lived
Home. Twenty years of memories compressed into a city that never stops moving. Nothing beats it.
Chennai
My first city away from home. Ford, forecasting, and figuring out who I was without my family nearby.
Gurgaon
Nine years of McKinsey. The city that turned ambition into outcomes.
Dallas
USA · Lived
My American chapter. Arrived alone. Built something from nothing, again.
São Paulo
Brazil · Worked
My first overseas McKinsey trip. Beco de Batman, hairnets in factories, and falling in love with Brazilian energy.
Shanghai
China · Worked
Delhi to Shanghai to Delhi to São Paulo in one week. The Bund at night showed me what a civilization serious about the future looks like.
Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia · Worked
The Petronas Towers at dusk. A city that built its identity in one generation.
Mexico City
Mexico · Worked
Client work that became something more. Teotihuacan on a weekend — standing at the top of the Pyramid of the Sun, arms wide.
Colombo
Sri Lanka · Worked
An infinity pool merging into the Indian Ocean. The kind of moment that makes you question every life choice that kept you in an office.
Roopkund
India · Explored
5,029 meters. A glacial lake surrounded by ancient skeletons. My first trek. A pilgrimage to myself.
Auroville
A commune that decided to opt out of the world. André, rented bikes, and days that had no agenda. Something about the place made you want to slow everything down.
Kodaikanal
Life-altering. Met people who had leased the hills for 99 years and seemed to have figured something out. Slept on a hilltop in pitch-black forest. Whatever shifted that night hasn't shifted back.
Kathmandu
Nepal · Explored
The base before Roopkund. Durbar Square — a civilization's memory laid out in stone.
Phi Phi Islands
Thailand · Explored
First McKinsey offsite. We were young, ambitious, and briefly forgot about supply chains.
Venice
Italy · Explored
Operations induction training. San Marco Square. I ordered pizza, didn't like it, and told the waiter. He has not forgiven me.
Scotland / Glencoe
UK · Explored
The most scenic trip I've taken. Drove through Glencoe and felt like we'd entered the world from a film. Stayed with the North Sea behind us.
Washington DC
USA · Explored
Standing outside the White House. A boy from New Delhi in the center of American power.
Tangalle
Sri Lanka · Explored
A beach that felt undiscovered. Horizontal for three days. That's it. That's the story.
San José
Costa Rica · Explored
Unexpected beauty. The sculptures in the park told me more about Costa Rica than any guidebook.
Lewisville
Home base in America. The quiet suburb that held everything together while I figured out a new continent.
Byonhin
My ancestral village near Mathura. Where we came from. The farmhouse my father is building here is a small restoration of something lost.
Bengaluru
India · Worked
India's tech capital. Client work that showed me how fast things can move when ambition and infrastructure align.
Atlanta
USA · Worked
Client engagements in the American South. A city that reinvented itself and never stopped moving.
Chicago
The city that hits you with wind and ambition in equal measure.
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania client work. Quiet city, serious problems worth solving.
Philadelphia
The city of brotherly love and supply chain complexity.
Pittsburgh
Steel city turned innovation hub. A metaphor for every supply chain transformation I have run.
Smithfield
Virginia client work. Small city, significant problems.
York
Pennsylvania manufacturing country. Where supply chains are still physical and real.
Detroit
The city that built America's automotive century. Going back to see what the next one looks like.
São José dos Campos
Brazil's aerospace corridor. Where Embraer builds planes and ambition has no ceiling.
Pordenone
Italy · Worked
Northern Italy client work. A quiet industrial town that reminded me how much of the world runs on manufacturing.
Monterrey
Mexico's industrial capital. The most American city in Mexico and proud of it.
London
UK · Worked
The city that contains every other city. Worked here, but could live here.
Agra
The Taj Mahal at dawn. A monument to love that outlasted the empire that built it.
Alwar
Rajasthan's quiet fortress city. History sitting undisturbed.
Ayodhya
One of India's most sacred cities. A place where faith and history are inseparable.
Bhimtal
A lake in the Kumaon hills. The kind of place that makes you question why you live in cities.
Bundi
Rajasthan's forgotten gem. Step wells, blue walls, and a palace that nobody visits.
Chandigarh
Le Corbusier's planned city. What happens when a modernist architect gets a blank canvas.
Chittorgarh
A fort that chose honour over surrender. Rajputana pride carved in stone.
Dalhousie
Colonial hill station in Himachal. Pine trees and the feeling that time moves differently here.
Goa
India's permission slip to relax. Where the rules are different and everyone knows it.
Gwalior
A fort that dominates the skyline and the imagination. Central India's hidden fortress city.
Hyderabad
Biryani, Charminar, and a tech boom happening simultaneously. Two centuries in one city.
Jaipur
The Pink City. Rajasthan's most photogenic contradiction — royal heritage meets chaotic modernity.
Jammu
Gateway to Kashmir. A city that carries the weight of everything north of it.
Jim Corbett
India's oldest national park. Where you remember that humans are not at the top of every food chain.
Jodhpur
The Blue City. Mehrangarh fort rising from the desert like something from another time.
Kota
India's coaching capital. A city built around the singular ambition of lakhs of students.
Lucknow
The city of nawabs and tehzeeb. Where refinement survived everything history threw at it.
Mahabalipuram
Shore temples carved from rock by the Pallava dynasty. Standing in the sea for 1,300 years.
Nagpur
The geographic center of India. A city that knows it connects everything.
Nainital
A lake town in the Kumaon hills. The kind of place people retire to in their dreams.
Neemrana
A 15th century fort converted into a hotel. History you can sleep inside.
Noida
Delhi's ambitious neighbour. Where India's IT generation built its first offices.
Patnitop
A plateau in the Shivaliks. Snow and silence in equal measure.
Puducherry
French colonial streets meeting Tamil culture. A town that never fully decided which country it belonged to.
Pushkar
A sacred lake in the desert. One of the few places in India with its own specific frequency.
Ranikhet
A cantonment town in the Himalayas. The British left, the pine trees stayed.
Shimla
The old summer capital of British India. Mall Road and mountains and the memory of an empire.
Tonk
Rajasthan's small nawabi town. Sunehri Kothi's golden interiors hiding in plain sight.
Udaipur
The City of Lakes. Rajasthan's most romantic city — and it knows it.
Vaishno Devi
A pilgrimage through the Trikuta mountains. Faith tested by altitude and rewarded by arrival.
Amarillo
The Texas Panhandle. Flat, vast, and unexpectedly honest about what America looks like without a coastline.
Austin
Keep Austin weird — until the tech money arrived. Still the most interesting city in Texas.
Houston
The energy capital of the world. No zoning laws and unlimited ambition.
Kennedy Space Center
Standing next to a Saturn V rocket. The most humbling thing a supply chain person can do.
Maui
Road to Hana with my wife. The kind of drive that makes you forget you have a job.
Newark
The airport city. But once you look past the terminal, there is something real here.
Norfolk
Virginia's naval city. Where the ocean and American military power meet.
Orlando
Theme parks and space centers. America's most deliberately designed city.
San Antonio
The Alamo and the River Walk. Texas history served with a margarita.
San Francisco
The city that convinced the world that software could change everything. The fog agrees.
Sarasota
Florida's art coast. White sand and a surprising amount of culture.
St. Charles
A quiet Illinois town on the Fox River. Suburban America at its most peaceful.
Vail
Colorado mountains in winter. The kind of cold that feels earned.
São Roque
Brazil · Explored
Wine country near São Paulo. Brazil has more dimensions than most people imagine.
Frankfurt
Germany · Explored
Seen only through an airport terminal. But even airports tell you something about a country.
Munich
Bavaria through a layover. Orderly, precise, and already making me want to return properly.
Rome
Seen only from the airport. But even Fiumicino carries the weight of what surrounds it.
Genting
Malaysia · Explored
A casino city built on a Malaysian mountaintop. Capitalism at its most theatrical.
Teotihuacan
Mexico · Explored
Standing at the top of the Pyramid of the Sun, arms wide. A civilization that built for eternity.
Amsterdam
Netherlands · Explored
Schiphol transit. The most civilised airport in the world — which says everything about the Dutch.
Doha
Qatar · Explored
A desert city that bought its way into the future in one generation. The airport alone is a statement.
Bangkok
Chaos and temples in perfect coexistence. The most alive city I have been to.
Phuket
Thailand's famous island. Beautiful in spite of how many people know it.
Abu Dhabi
UAE · Explored
Seen from the airport. A city building its post-oil identity with remarkable speed.
Dubai
The airport between everywhere. A city that decided excess was a philosophy.
Edinburgh
A castle on a volcanic rock. Scotland's capital wears its history on its skyline.
Inverness
Gateway to the Scottish Highlands. Where the light changes every ten minutes.
Isle of Skye
The Fairy Pools and the Old Man of Storr. An island that looks like it was designed by someone who had never seen a photograph.
Balmoral Castle
The royal estate in the Scottish Highlands. Standing where monarchs came to escape being monarchs.
93 cities across 16 countries
The world is much larger and much more similar than people think.