Apr 2022 – Sep 2022 · 5 mos

• I'm a big fan of internships. There's so much to learn from them. And for me personally, there isn't really a right or wrong time to do them. It doesn't matter how old you are, or where you are in your career. I'm hoping to learn so much from the wonderful team at The Whole Truth. About building a brand from scratch using common sense and content, and then scaling it. Hopefully I can contribute to them in some small way, myself.

Aug 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 7 mos · Gurgaon, India

• The Voice Company works with companies, emerging talent and communities to tell the stories that have not been told before.

Nov 2017 – Oct 2018 · 11 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Jul 2015 – Nov 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• JWT was looking for someone to handle the Pepsi business. The man heading JWT India, a terrific writer, a director, a man of many metals, decided it'd be a wise move to give it to me.
• So that's where I am now, and what I'm doing.
• I absolutely love the account, love my team, love the clients.
• The tea is horrendous here, but there's a cafe close by where I spend an occasional solitary mo.

May 2015 – Jul 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos · The World Wide Web

• Everybody has an opinion about something. The Vomit provides a platform to people with an opinion on pop culture, politics, travel and people.

Oct 2014 – Jun 2015 · 8 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Increasingly, I was getting fed up with advertising. At least the way most agencies looked at it.
• So I decided to call on a man who didn't do advertising in its traditional sense - V Sunil.
• The 8 odd months I spent there were intense. It was a crash course on how not to do advertising. Everyday, I was learning something new. Which was fantastic.
• And then for some strange reason, I stopped performing. It's okay, happens to the best of us.
• Not wanting to hold my team back, I left.

Apr 2014 – Sep 2016 · 2 yrs 5 mos · India

May 2012 – Sep 2014 · 2 yrs 4 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Grey was fun, mostly. Worked on the GSK business, won a few awards here and there, launch The Dolch Project, a project that crowd-sourced literature to help kids with learning disabilities.

Jul 2010 – Apr 2012 · 1 yr 9 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Second stint at the company I learned most of the craft at. It was comfortable.
• Sometime around 2012, it became a little too comfortable. Things were getting predictable - the work, the approach. And so after two odd years, I decided to get uncomfortable again. And moved.

Sep 2009 – Jun 2010 · 9 mos

• a short stint. just to see how it was like outside ogilvy

May 2007 – Jul 2009 · 2 yrs 2 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• The first time I get hired without so much as a portfolio.
• Interesting story, and here it is.
• I'm sitting in Calcutta, at some agency. I come across the Ogilvy website. I think it'd be a good idea to write to them.
• Which I do, at a generic address (careers@ogilvy was it?)
• It's a long mail (pretty badly written, in hindsight) outlining the various reasons they should hire me.
• A few days later, I get a call from the then Executive Creative Director, Emmanuel saying he'd like to hire me.
• I think it's a joke, and I hang up on him.
• His secretary calls, profusely apologising for the bad network, and "maybe the line got disconnected."​
• Anyway, offer letter comes in. I fly to the big city.
• We launched Motorola, got a shortlist at The One Show, met the girl I'd later marry.
• Happy days.