Unveiling 'Making Change Happen': Book Launch at Burj Khalifa, Dubai
There are moments that don’t feel real while they’re happening. Standing at the foot of the Burj Khalifa — the tallest building humans have ever built — to unveil a book I’d written, was one of them.
If you’ve read the book, you know I didn’t start anywhere near a place like this. I grew up in a small town in the Northeast of India, raised mostly by my grandmother. At sixteen I left for Chennai — not the obvious city — to build an identity in a place where nobody knew my name. I became a first-generation businessperson with no map and no safety net. So the distance between that boy and a launch at the Burj Khalifa isn’t really about Dubai. It’s about what happens when you keep making small, unglamorous changes for long enough.
Why launch a book about change here
The Burj Khalifa is the perfect backdrop for a book about change, and not for the obvious reason. We look at a building like that and see the spectacle — the height, the lights, the arrival. What we don’t see is the decade of foundations, the thousands of ordinary days, the boring engineering that made the spectacle possible.
That’s the whole argument of Making Change Happen. We crave the magic — the overnight transformation, the dramatic before-and-after. But the real work is mundane and repeatable, done across eight spheres of life: business, finances, relationships, the physical, the mental, the spiritual, family, and lifestyle. The tower is just the part you can photograph.
Luck is the macro output of hundreds of micro-actions taken on ordinary days.
What the book actually is
I didn’t want to write another motivational book that leaves you inspired for an afternoon and unchanged by the weekend. I wanted a blueprint — something you use, not just read. So each chapter takes a sphere of life, separates what’s happening on the outside (the visible symptoms) from what’s going on on the inside (the real root), and then hands you decisions and tools you can act on the same day.
It’s also honest. The book carries the parts of my story I’m not proud of alongside the wins, because change doesn’t come from the polished version of anyone. The QR codes scattered through its pages open up living toolkits — frameworks, mental models, and templates I actually use — so the ideas don’t die on the page.
The real milestone
The launch was a beautiful night. But if I’m honest, the milestone I’m proudest of isn’t the venue — it’s that a kid who once felt like the person things merely happened to learned to make change happen on purpose, and then put down a blueprint so someone else could do it faster.
If this is your first time here: welcome. Watch the launch above, then start anywhere in the book that matches the change you’re facing right now. You don’t have to begin at chapter one. You just have to begin.