Letters from the Founders of Bangalore Watch Company

Can you believe it?

Mercy and I work with young people at BWC. The running joke in our office is how often we find ourselves recalling stories about how Bangalore has...

Your first time?

I am not writing to you today about a new watch. Instead, I am writing to tell you why watches are still relevant in 2026. Some time ago, I came...

A visitor from interstellar space.

In 2017, scientists in Hawaii discovered a speck of light moving towards our Solar System at an incredible speed. At first, they thought it was a C...

The game that lasted 12-days.

It is March 1939, you’re watching a Cricket match in Durban, South Africa. It is test cricket, so you do expect the match to go on for a few days. ...

When I was 21...

What did you do when you were 21 years old? Well, I was working in a call centre and spent my free time on AOL chatrooms. Sarla was different. S...

Moon Landing Day

On a bright, breezy afternoon in the vast plains of Isla Nublar, a Jeep sped through tall grass, over a small hill, and slowed to a stop in front o...

Whistling Schoolboy

Every January, Nirupesh and I spend 3 days in an old British Bungalow hidden away in the Western Ghats. Every morning, we wake up to the sounds of ...

Church Wedding

A few days later, we married again in a Hindu wedding ceremony, a mangalsutra in tow. A week after that, we hosted a wedding reception in a contemp...

King Tut’s Dagger

It was December 2012; Mercy and I were navigating the busy streets of Cairo. Turns out that there was a revolution against the President, the city ...

Walter Mitty

Walter was a daydreamer. He lead a mundane life with a boring job at Life magazine. Often, Walter escaped into elaborate fantasies to avoid confron...

Gavaskar and I...

In March 1993, I met Sunil Gavaskar. The Australian cricket team was touring India; the last of three test matches was at the Chepauk stadium in Ma...