FEMA Is Not Complex. Your Approach to It Is.
Most FEMA problems are not regulatory — they are structural. A plain-language breakdown of where companies actually get tripped up, ...
Writing and Thinking out loud.
Practical leadership, communication, and career strategies for professionals who want to grow faster without playing politics.
Writing and thinking out loud.
Practical leadership, communication, and career strategies for professionals who want to grow faster without playing politics.
About
Chartered Accountant.
Transfer Pricing & FEMA specialist.
Founder of a boutique advisory practice.
I write about tax complexity, entrepreneurship, and everything else that does not fit neatly into a brief.
The essays here lean unhurried. Some are technical, most are observational — the kind of notes you might scribble in the margin of a regulation, or after a long client call you cannot quite shake.
Writing
Posts by topic.
Three notebooks, one voice. Pick the one that suits the mood — technical, founder-life, or somewhere quieter.
Transfer Pricing & FEMA
The technical work, made readable.
What the Arms Length Principle Actually Means for a Family Business
Transfer pricing was not designed with family-owned companies in mind. Here is how to think about it when the rules ...
The ODI Checklist Nobody Gives You Before Sending Money Abroad
Overseas Direct Investment has more moving parts than most founders realise. A practical walk-through of what to verify before you ...
When the Tax Authority Disagrees: A Realistic Guide to TP Disputes
Documentation is never enough on its own. What actually determines the outcome of a transfer pricing dispute in India.
Founder & Advisory
Building, pricing, leading — the parts they don’t teach.
What EY Gave Me That No Classroom Could
Early career lessons that shaped how I approach client work — not the technical ones, the real ones.
I Started Too Liberal. Then Too Strict. Here is Where I Landed.
Managing a small team inside an advisory practice requires a different calibration than managing at a large firm. The iterations ...
My Father’s Practice Taught Me What to Build. And What Not To.
The gap I saw between traditional practice and what clients actually needed. How that gap became the reason to start ...
On Raising Fees and Not Apologising for It
The conversation nobody teaches you at CA school. How to price for expertise, not hours — and how to say ...
The Difference Between a Client Who Trusts You and One Who Just Likes You
Likability is easy. Trust is built slowly, over disagreements and difficult conversations. What that looks like from the advisor’s ...
Personal & Thinking
Long runs, longer thoughts.
Elsewhere
Shorter thoughts, posted in between.
The essays live here. The half-formed observations live there. Both are part of the same notebook.
Connect
Shorter thoughts,
posted in between.
The essays live here. The half-formed observations live there. Both are part of the same notebook.
Coming 2026 · The Book
The Complexity Manual.
A first-person account of navigating India’s cross-border tax maze — from the inside of a founder-led advisory practice. Part field guide, part memoir, part argument for clarity over jargon.
