“Great stories happen to those who can tell them”

- Ira Glass

The fascinating origins of words (Story Rules on Saturday)

Who controls your happiness? (Story Rules on Saturday)

The best book on crafting personal stories

A tribute that will make you laugh (and cry)

A lovely trip down memory lane

Amidst the gloom, some good news on India

Explained: The global economic slowdown (and inflation)

It's time to call some bullsh!t

The party might be coming to an end

The books that didn't make the cut

The definitive report on the Indian Startup ecosystem

Three ideas for improving Indian government data by Pramit Bhattacharya

The stat that influenced the birth of Amazon

Beware of 'Health food' claims

26 February 2022

You don't really get numbers

19 February 2022

Do you really know your own country?

5 February 2022

Music moves the markets!

29 January 2022

Sunset time for Covid-19?

22 January 2022

Will nation states give way to 'Decentralised countries'?

15 January 2022

'The Story of Us' told by the world's raddest blogger

My best books and podcasts of 2021

A framework to test opinions and win arguments (Part 2)

25 December 2021

A framework to test opinions and win arguments (Part 1)

18 December 2021

The art and science of insights

11 December 2021

The most important question before any project

27 November 2021

That moment of blinding insight in a Zoom breakout room

20 November 2021

The art of stealing well

6 November 2021

Storify your Diwali gatherings with this game

30 October 2021

Every Story Framework Ever. Explained.

23 October 2021

The funniest book on endangered species

Data Storytelling: As easy as ABC(D)

18 September 2021

Brent Dykes wrote THE book on Data Storytelling

4 September 2021

Celebrate memories as stories

Decoding the skills of Shekhar Gupta: India's best news storyteller

The seminal book on the history of innovation

The 'Game' of Storytelling

Five story lessons from an 800-year old tradition

Creating the software stack for the Knowledge Era (Part 2)

The Co-Warriors who could have saved America

Creating the software stack for the Knowledge Era (Part 1)

Chapter 2: The Human Immune System - Our Defense Forces

A mysterious system of microscopic messengers and mercenaries

Writing was an accountant's invention

Getting 450 people to emotionally connect... in a Zoom call

COVID-19. EXPLAINED. [Chapter 1]

Your brain is an accountant

A storytelling lesson from the Valmiki Ramayana

Using 'psycho-logic' to get people to give up gold for iron

The missing C and an imaginary conversation: The Story of my Podcast

A framework to analyse your audience for a big presentation

Why bad news can be good for your brand

The riveting story of India's most valuable startup

Amazon's competitive advantage: Narrative

27 February 2021

ACE your story by aligning with Authenticity, Empathy and the Clear, Comprehensive Facts

20 February 2021

Discovering joy in 1950s Hindi film music

13 February 2021

A part of you can stretch from Ahmedabad to Assam: Guess which one?

6 February 2021

R Ashwin - the hidden storyteller in the Indian cricket team

30 January 2021

Decoding the Biden inauguration speech - 5 Storytelling Lessons

23 January 2021

Four incidents, Four lessons

16 January 2021

How Improv can help you cope with the uncertainties of life

Begin with impact: Five ways to grab your audience's attention at the beginning of your presentation

Decathlon: Enough with Santa, let’s tell stories of the elves

26 December 2020

More stories about the little one... (and a bonus story from Begusarai)

19 December 2020

The story of how we got our daughter home (PS: Mandira Bedi, we owe you one)

12 December 2020

Want to refute something? Don't deny it. Instead, manufacture doubt

5 December 2020

How I stumbled upon the word 'Storyteller' for what I do

28 November 2020

A data-storytelling insight from the Jyotirlinga story

21 November 2020

Three storytelling lessons from Kamala Harris' stirring victory speech

14 November 2020

The most consequential napkin art of all time (or was it?)

7 November 2020

Our struggle with Probability

31 October 2020

An ode to the patron Goddess of Storytelling :)

24 October 2020

The (revised!) 5Cs framework for thought leadership

20 October 2020

The story of a rural janitor... who left $6M to charity

The plural of anecdote isn’t Data: Structuring the search for your Data Story

A new logo. A new story.

12 September 2020

Not winning despite having the best product in the market? You need the right connections!

5 September 2020

My recommended reads and listens for August 2020

My recommended books - and other content - for July 2020

My quest for Ikigai

Business Review Meetings suck. Here’s 10 Commandments to fix them

Work From Home: Why you need to manage your T.E.A.M. and not just Time

My journey of reclaiming my life from my smartphone

19 December 2019

The SoftBank earnings deck: What was great (and what wasn’t)

11 November 2019

Decoding the ‘Howdy Modi’ speech: A 1-slide summary

25 September 2019

Uber's real business is trust: A driver's story

18 September 2019

A vocab cheat-sheet for your data story

10 guidelines to make impactful PowerPoint presentations

Amazon’s 2019 shareholder letter: Top 3 storytelling lessons

A course that will transform your data presentations

Storytelling lessons from the world’s 3rd Richest Man

A 10-line cheat-sheet to craft your work story

13 February 2019

Steve Jobs, Elon Musk and Yuval Harari have used this storytelling technique – you should too

21 November 2018

The 7Cs Business Story Framework: the Hollywood Avatar

The 7Cs Story Framework: Crafting a winning sales deck

30 September 2018

Deconstructing (and critiquing) Amazon’s shareholder letter

Business leaders: Don’t settle for less during review meetings

The King and Minister story: How to write better emails

How to measure the impact of storytelling training

How to ace interviews with better storytelling

Fundraise storytelling lessons: India’s largest clinical data intelligence platform

Client Story: 2 days. 10 pitch makeovers.

A storytelling tip from Kapil Sharma: Take on the anti-story

Client Story: Making review meetings impactful with better storytelling

Four tips for choosing the right words for your data story

The role of credibility in storytelling

12 February 2018

Learning from a successful B2B startup’s sales storytelling

20 December 2017

#LeaderStories: Satyam Darmora of i2e1

18 December 2017

The story and lessons underlying i2e1’s $3mn fund raise

18 December 2017

How to present complex, technical information in a captivating way

8 December 2017

Leveraging pride instead of pity on International Day of People with Disabilities

4 December 2017

5 words/phrases to connect your data story

23 November 2017

Chris Nolan’s surprising (yet familiar) insight on storytelling

13 October 2017

The most critical storytelling lesson from Bollywood’s biggest hit

A tool to transform your internal review meetings

25 September 2017

You can ‘engineer’ any data story using this tool

1 September 2017

Using contrast to elevate your key message

Why do we have songs in movies?

7 tips to get your story narrative in shape

Can you spot what’s wrong in a simple chart?

Charts are the best (but don’t use them in this situation)

Are you underplaying your own performance?

How an airline used the right ‘connections’ to make a social statement

28 February 2017

Can we (gasp) improve a Google presentation?

24 February 2017

The tweet that flagged off a storm (over a door mat)

23 February 2017

Are you smarter than a chimpanzee?

21 February 2017

Constructing the right chart

20 February 2017

How HUL superbly told its volume growth story

15 February 2017

The story that launched a billion dollar company

15 February 2017

Finding the hidden story in a corporate P&L

14 February 2017

Unravelling the mystery behind a most prolific pair

10 February 2017