The books
Two on the shelf. One on the way.
Each book starts the same way the journal does: a small, honest observation about how people actually behave at work, followed by something you can try tomorrow morning.
Happy by Design
Corporate Happiness
Available now
Happy by Design: Corporate Happiness
Happiness at work is treated like a mood, something that either shows up on a good day or doesn't. This book argues it is a design decision instead, something a manager can build into a team the same way they'd design a process or a product.
Built around real vignettes from Indian workplaces and three practical frameworks, S.T.O.P., C.A.R.E. and L.I.G.H.T., it gives a working manager language and small moves for the moments that usually go unmanaged: the reactive email, the tense 1:1, the culture that quietly goes stale.
Zinda Hai Tu
You Are Alive, Now Live It
Available now
Zinda Hai Tu: You Are Alive, Now Live It
#ZindaHaiTu started as three words on LinkedIn before it became a book. It is an invitation to notice your own aliveness again, somewhere between the deadlines and the deliverables, and to stop treating presence as something you'll get to later.
Where Happy by Design speaks to the manager, this one speaks to the person underneath the job title. Short chapters, direct language, and a running thread of Indian philosophy that never asks you to sit cross-legged to understand it.
The Accidental Manager
A novel
Coming December 2026
The Accidental Manager
A management satire about the person promoted into leadership for all the wrong reasons, and what it takes to grow into the role by accident anyway. Every framework in Happy by Design exists because someone, somewhere, learned it the hard way first. This is that story, told for laughs.