Who I am
I’m an iOS app developer. I’ve read the Bhagavad Gita for years, a few verses at a time, in the gaps between work and family. The essays go through the Gita chapter by chapter, with the Sanskrit, a translation, and commentary that I edit.
I’m not a Sanskritist or a swami. I check readings against the commentaries and published translations, and when a passage is beyond me, I say so.
Why I write about the Gita
The Gita starts with someone falling apart. On the morning of the war he has trained for, Arjuna puts down his bow and refuses to fight. Chapter 1 is him explaining why. The other seventeen chapters are Krishna answering him, and the answer changes what Arjuna thinks acting means.
I’ve watched that pattern, stopping, asking, then acting differently, in my own work and in people close to me. So the essays start from the Sanskrit and the traditional commentaries, and then ask what a verse looks like on an ordinary working day.
How the writing is made
The English translations are the Wisdom edition, which I edit. The commentary, on the verse pages and in the essays, is drafted with a language model and then checked and edited by me before it goes up. Each verse page and essay says so in its byline, and the methodology page sets out each step.
I cite the source text directly. Sanskrit shlokas appear in Devanagari, with transliteration where useful, and English/Hindi translations alongside. Where a line is an interpretation rather than a translation, the page says so.
Apps I build
Two apps are live right now:
Wisdom: Daily Bhagavad Gita
Tell it what’s going on and it gives you one verse a day for seven days, read aloud, with the Sanskrit. Week 1 is free on iPhone.
wisdomquotes.in →Dadly: for expecting and new dads
An AI companion for the partner role: pregnancy symptoms, scan report explanations in plain English, weekly briefs, and calm answers at 3am.
dadlyapp.com →Connect
If you want to argue with a reading, suggest a verse, or just say hi, the easiest place is LinkedIn or X. I’m more active on X.