Sabeer Bhatia

We overtook Japan in GDP……but can you feel it in your pocket? Growth without distribution is just inflation in disguise.

Leadership isn’t a product to be branded. It’s about empathy - understanding lives, ensuring education, reducing inequality, creating jobs, and helping every person realize their potential. This is what we must seek in a leader - not PR, not optics.

India: the only place where politicians dress like saints, saints act like CEOs, and some folks claim to have seen God… in London. Everyone’s worshipping something. Just one question - has anyone tried looking inside the person?

At the Giants Game against the NY Mets..

Just saw a disturbing video of Jyoti Sharma (Bajrang Dal) threatening to break the jaw of nuns in Chhattisgarh. This isn’t Hinduism - it’s hate in the name of religion. Reject this toxic ideology. Share widely. Silence is complicity.

I’ve been riding both Ubers and Waymos lately. At first, the AI car felt strange. Now, I trust it more than a human driver. No ego. No distractions. Just precision. Machines may not feel - but they make you feel safer.

In India, the pressure to be ‘successful’ is so high that people - and even governments - sometimes fake it. Success here means wealth. But in Silicon Valley, failure is part of the model. 95 out of 100 startups fail. The 5 that succeed change the world. India must shift its…

When I speak uncomfortable truths, some respond with personal attacks - ‘one-hit wonder’, ‘has-been’, ‘expired product’. The most bizarre? ‘You’re a Pakistani’ or ‘a Muslim’. When people can’t counter ideas, why do their insecurities hijack their logic? Strange.

100% literacy. No riots. Majority Hindu. Women in the workforce. Nature at its best. Kerala quietly leads while others shout slogans. Why can’t the rest of India be more like Kerala?

Pythagorean Theorem? Gone. Theory of Evolution? Gone. Periodic Table? Also gone. At this rate, NCERT might soon replace textbooks with WhatsApp forwards. What are we even teaching our kids?

भारत में बड़े होते हुए, हिंदू धर्म को हमेशा शांति और सहिष्णुता का प्रतीक माना गया। हमारे अहिंसात्मक स्वतंत्रता संग्राम पर मुझे गर्व था - जिसे दुनिया भर में सम्मान मिला। लेकिन सिर्फ एक दशक में, हिंदुत्व की उग्रता वाली सोच सदियों से बनी प्रतिष्ठा को मिटा रही है। हमसे क्या गलती हो…

Cricket gave us glory in 1983 - but hockey teaches trust. One is about personal milestones, the other about selfless teamwork. If I had to build a company, I’d hire a hockey or football player over a cricketer. Prima donnas don’t build great teams. Agree?

Heard a brilliant take: In authoritarian China, leaders are held accountable. In democratic India, they rarely are - because reelection matters more than results. When lying is normalized, accountability dies. Think about that.

Growing up in India, Hinduism was seen as a religion of peace and tolerance. I took pride in our non-violent freedom struggle - respected worldwide. But in just one decade, this Hindutva narrative of militancy is undoing centuries of goodwill. What happened to us?

Innovation starts with a question. Blind faith ends it. If something can’t be questioned, it can’t be improved. Want a better society? Teach kids to think, not follow.

Henley Passport Index 2025: •🇸🇬 Singapore: #1 •🇺🇸 USA: #10 •🇮🇳 India: #77 (Sharing rank with Senegal, Burkina Faso & Ivory Coast) •🇦🇫 Afghanistan: #99 Global mobility says a lot.

The confusion never ends. Combine a football team with a cricket team and you get 20 billion interpretations - each more bizarre than the last.

I’ve come to believe that many in India subconsciously see others through the discolored lenses of tribe - religion, caste, language, color, state, appearance. If we teach ourselves and the next generation to see humans first, most of our problems will vanish.

Some responses to my tweet on the new data law are shocking - people supporting the govt curbing press freedom. Without a free press reporting Gandhi’s satyagraha, we’d never have won independence. This new law would’ve made 1947 impossible. Just wow.

Under India’s new data protection law, journalists investigating corruption could be punished for using personal data - because there’s no exemption for journalism in the public interest. Privacy is being weaponized to silence the press.