Shekhar Natarajan

was your teacher.

And she had indicated that like if everyone planted 20 trees, world would be a better place.

And you exceeded that number by many notches.

It just happened.

So, do you, like, was she wrong in the estimate or were you actually trying to exceed that expectation?

I don't call it that.

Artificial is artificial, nothing natural.

So tell me a little about your upbringing, your family, your grandmother, right?

Because you talk a lot about her, like, you know, she was your first angel, God, philosopher, everything.

And tell me more about her.

what made her who she was, your father, your mother, because at that time, and then I'm sure at that age, right, like, I even I had a lot of secret desires and passion, like, you know, like, I would want to go play cricket, or I want to go paint.

And my father would tell me like, you know, hey, like, that is not going to get you food, you should try to get into engineering, you know, like,

So like my life's choices were actually an outcome of like the nature and the nurture that I had.

And I'm sure like yours had

So I think this is what... One of the most beautiful things you said is basically like, you know...

best things happen when you don't push yourself too much right like you know because I could relate my story with you on this one so when I was a kid because like you know we I had this taboo growing up my brother has bipolar depression so he had bipolar and we never knew like

when you are growing up like you know one you don't discover medical like mental health challenges then you don't disclose it but like it was very obvious you know you would have all of these highs and lows and so for me like you know I like I always felt

The reason why we were going through all of that problems is because of where we were living.

And so I wanted to always push myself to get out of it.

Like that used to be my psyche that I have to do something to get out.