To all the Indian H1B visa holders, fill up the short form on link in this post if you have any intent of coming back to India or if you want a feeler for your profile to be a shortlist anywhere in India. There are thousands of startups in India at different stages and in

I've had my whole saga with the US visa system: 3 H1b lottery misses, cross-border long distance relationship through it all, finally getting L1 visa approval, and then deciding to come back home in '19, giving up the L1 I wanted so badly... I still can't fully articulate why I

So so true💯 Skin really needs to be seen as a part of our overall health system and not just the wrapping paper of our body. Struggled with acne for years till I finally figured out what was causing it and also worked on that: 1amskincareclub.substack.com/p/my-acne-story

Hypochlorous acid has been the ultimate skincare find in my group recently (yes, we're obsessed) - esp for folks with acne / those who want a quick midday refresh. So it was interesting to see Forbes do a teardown on it🤩 📌 Here's the TL;DR: 1) For daily facial use, look for

A midweek holiday was just the thing I needed to catch up on the 3.5+ hour WTF podcast between Nikhil Kamath, diipa khosla (indē wild), Shantanu Deshpande (Bombay Shaving Company), Bhakti Modi (Tira). While they spoke about opportunities in BPC, they also touched upon what’s broken.

The difference between a 'good' dermatologist and an 'average' one is how they view your skin. Through my own acne journey, I met several dermats who treated the surface, but never the root cause. Then I finally found Dr. Vandhana, who said: “Acne is a symptom of something

Picking serums (or products) isn’t as straightforward as this chart suggests⚠️⚠️⚠️ 1) Skin type is only one factor. Your skin conditions, sensitivity levels, environment, and skin goals all matter. 2) Each active ingredient has a purpose - and it’s about finding the right way

After months of being off (added) sugar - finally looking forward to my good old milk cake thanks to Delhi x Diwali 🤩 Now I only need to find a way to put my brain on mute as it calculates the sugar spike this box will cause 🤦‍♀️😭

New edition of the now less irregular newsletter is out. This was issue #39. This time there are no writings (busy with chapter 3 of the PMF Playbook). But there are lots of thoughts on, and links, to podcasts, and articles that I found interesting. Podcasts 1/ Rame

Every single one of these $100M+ companies were started by alumni from a single Computer Science club in a non-American high school. Cartesia Inception Labs General Catalyst CVF Wispr Flow Affinity Snapdeal Sugar boAt It's Exun Clan in Delhi Public School, RK Puram in India.

If you ask my closest friends for a word most closely associated with me, 50% will say "coffee" (I mean my bio literally says "perpetually seeking coffee"...) So I was rather dismissive when matcha started sidelining my beloved beverage💔 But turns out, this green froth is

A 2018 survey in Bangalore found that 24% of samples from well-off areas like Bellandur and Whitefield had hardness levels above 200 mg/L, which is WAY above the permissible limits⚠️🤯 Hard water is what leaves that gross white layer on your taps and tiles. NOW, imagine that

I started writing on Substack 2-3 weeks ago. Every weekend since then I’ve tried to read at least one other Substack. Last weekend it was Radhika Agarwal’s 1am skin club. Today it’s Gurpriya’s Tasting Life Twice. I want to keep this exercise up for as long as I can. So if

Forget glass skin, is 'exhaustion' the new beauty trend? We’ve seen the clean girl look, strawberry girl aesthetic, and glass skin trend dominating Instagram. But the latest IT girl look on the block is ‘exhaustion’ – puffiness, dark circles, and eye bags. Rhode even launched a