I still feel like a beginner.
I have spent more than three decades working, building and learning across very different worlds. I started in technology, across R&D, satellite systems, online payments and later set up a technology centre in Bangalore for a large French retailer. Entrepreneurship followed and then, somewhat improbably, classical ballet.
I fell in love with ballet and have spent the past twenty years building The Lewis Foundation of Classical Ballet in Bangalore. Looking back, what matters most to me is not what I have achieved, but how these experiences have shaped the person I am becoming.
I have always been a romantic, and I hope I never lose my sense of wonder. But when something captures my imagination, I also want to figure out how to make it real. Ballet perhaps captures that contradiction best. What appears ethereal on stage is made possible by everything behind it—the years of training, teachers, people, finance, studios, stages, sets, costumes, audiences, partners and institutions that somehow have to come together to create that moment. I love being the bridge between the two.
Twenty years around children, parents, teachers and artists have left me with more questions than answers about how we learn, grow and become. My curiosity extends well beyond ballet, and I find myself increasingly drawn to people and ideas from worlds different from my own.
I am clearer about who I am, but still curious about who I might become. That is partly why I have started writing—to explore ideas, ask better questions and see where the conversations take me.
I don’t know exactly where they will lead. That’s part of the point.
If something here makes you think we should talk, write to me.