Brisk walking for 30 minutes. Everyday. And talking about it the whole day.

What is your favorite form of physical exercise?

No, it’s business as usual in India.

Was today typical?

How would you describe yourself to someone?

How do you balance work and home life?

When do you feel most productive?

List your top 5 grocery store items.

What’s the one luxury you can’t live without?

Take a highball glass. Add sugar, mint leaves and a splash of club soda.

Smash and mix them enough so that the flavour of the mint is released.

Cut a lime and squeeze both the halves into the mix. Drop one squeezed half into the glass for the luxury.

Add rum (white is preferable) and stir well.

Fill the glass with ice cubes and top with club soda.

Garnish with a mint sprig. Enjoy.

What are your morning rituals? What does the first hour of your day look like?

I’m self-employed, so there’s no strict first hour business. No ‘9 to 5’ routine for me.

I wake up at random hours thanks to spending time reading and writing late into the nights.

Getting up, having a hot cuppa and stretching a bit is how I start the day. No rush hour business.

I shall pick up something then to read or continue to write where I had left the previous day.

Check the e-mails quickly. Catch up with friends, relatives and business clients on Whatsapp.

Take a look at the calendar and try catching up with meetings (if any) for the day.

The calls I dial or receive change the nature of the rest of the day. Some meetings happen at random times and mostly turn productive.

In my business, it’s the first call of the day that makes my day rather than the first hour.

Do you enjoy your job?

To quote Maynard James Keenan, I’m a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure.

Thanks for asking.