Mirambika and Integral Education
Thirteen years in a free-progress environment grounded in Sri Aurobindo and The Mother’s vision of integral human development.
About
A life shaped by inquiry.
My work begins with a refusal to separate education from consciousness, systems from people, or the future from the deeper question of what a human being is.
From free progress to conscious practice.
The first thirteen years of my education unfolded at Mirambika, the free-progress school of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Delhi. That environment did more than shape how I learned. It shaped the questions I would carry into work, education and life.
Sixteen years in business, corporate and consulting contexts—from 1997 to 2013—offered a different education: how people, systems, processes and institutional purpose interact. It made one principle increasingly clear: work becomes meaningful when svabhava, svadharma and karma are not treated as separate domains.
In 2013, I moved into education full-time. The shift was not a departure from earlier work; it brought the earlier questions into a field where their consequences are immediate. What image of the human being does a school hold? What does it reward? What does it quietly suppress? What conditions allow a child’s capacities to grow?
Business, corporate and consulting work
Experience across leadership, teams, systems, processes and the tension between institutional targets and human purpose.
A deliberate turn to education
Full-time work with schools, educators, university students, parents and institutions seeking a deeper account of learning.
Education, inquiry and the human future
Bringing together Integral Education, professional ethics, systems thinking, consciousness and civilisational inquiry.
Current field of work
Roles with a common centre.
The titles are different. The underlying work is consistent: creating conditions for inquiry, responsibility and a more integral way of seeing.
Centre for Integral Learning
Founder and Chairman Trustee of a public charitable trust working across education, research, dialogue and cultural inquiry.
The Integral School
Chairman Trustee of an alternate school in Hyderabad shaped by free progress and Integral Education.
IIT Delhi
Professor of Practice and Visiting Faculty, working with questions of professional ethics, engineering responsibility and systems.
Integral Dialogues
A long-form conversation platform on technology, education, culture, consciousness and the forces shaping our collective future.