About Ankur
A career in technology. A life of questions.
I work with systems built to make industry more capable. I’m equally interested in the people who decide what that capability is for.
The person behind the work
From how it works
to why it matters.
My professional world is industrial automation. Over 25+ years, it has taken me across technology adoption, industrial operations, customer relationships and the work of building and leading teams.
As an industrial automation expert and business leader, I work where technical possibility meets business responsibility. Technology adoption involves more than selecting a system. It involves trust, practical constraints and people deciding to work differently.
That perspective has expanded the questions I ask. A difficult leadership decision may arrive as a business problem, but underneath it can sit fear, attachment, ambition or an identity we are trying to protect.
A wider inquiry
The questions followed me beyond work.
I did not come to the Bhagavad Gita looking for management techniques. I was drawn to the situation in which it begins: a capable person, facing real consequences, who no longer knows what to do.
Beyond the Battlefield grew out of that inquiry. Through the podcast, I explore the Gita’s conversation about action, identity, responsibility and inner steadiness in the context of lives we recognise today.
The work continues through conversations with other thinkers and a book in development. I want to understand what changes when knowledge becomes lived experience.
Learning to notice.
Photography is another part of my life. With a camera, I make time for light, places and details that are easy to pass by. It is a different way of paying attention.
See my photographyWhat I’m curious about now.
Artificial intelligence is giving us new ways to analyse, create and act. It also makes the older human questions harder to avoid. Who is responsible for a decision? What deserves our attention? What remains of identity when the things we do can be done by a machine?
I don’t approach these questions from outside the working world. They arise within it.
Explore Beyond the BattlefieldAn ongoing exploration
The machines will keep getting smarter.
The more interesting question
is what happens to us.
I’m exploring that question through technology, leadership, conversations and the Bhagavad Gita.