“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—’tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.”
Mark Twain

Essays

Why I love SNOMED-CT 2024-11-11
A nerdy post about something very few people will find interesting.

Fearlessness 2024-09-20
The opposite of fearlessness is not caution, it’s fear.

Circa 2014 2024-07-03
Realizations from 10 years ago

Random Thoughts 2024-06-04
A smorgasbord of thoughts and ideas

Anatomy of Change 2023-10-02
Change as a three-step process

Building product 2023-09-27
Freely dispensed (pun intended) advice I wish I had followed

The Limits of Science 2023-09-22
Does science have all the answers?

On Disruption 2023-09-17
What do Isaac Asimov and Clayton Christensen have in common?

Raising funds 2023-09-10
Is debt a viable option?

Theory and Practice 2023-08-31
Are they necessarily different?

The Magic of Sant Kabir 2023-08-28
Profound yet accessible

The Tale of Younger and Elder 2021-02-04
An awfully stretched out dad joke

Getting to MV Kali Bari timeless
Directions and where to park

Book

Head, Heart and Hands: A handbook on leading and managing organizations 2023-08-14
Available on Amazon.com; free for Kindle Unlimited subscribers

Head, Heart and Hands book cover

Publications

National Estimates of the Adult Diabetes Care Continuum in India, 2019-2021 2023-07-31
Jithin Sam Varghese, Ranjit Mohan Anjana, Pascal Geldsetzer, Nikkil Sudharsanan, Jennifer Manne-Goehler, Harsha Thirumurthy, Soura Bhattacharyya, K. M. Venkat Narayan, Viswanathan Mohan, Nikhil Tandon, Mohammed K. Ali

A Strategic Research Framework for Defeating Diabetes in India: A 21st-Century Agenda 2023-03-21
K. M. Venkat Narayan, Jithin Sam Varghese, Yara S. Beyh, Soura Bhattacharyya, Shweta Khandelwal, Gokul S. Krishnan, Karen R. Siegel, Tinku Thomas & Anura V. Kurpad

Tandon’s Textbook of Cardiology 2019
Book chapter contributed: Innovative Indigenous Technology