May 2022
Letter #7: Progress, But Not There Yet
Dear Friend of Ashaya, The last letter I sent to you was perhaps a bit morbid. This one is not. The countless hours of work we have put in over the past year are finally bearing fruit (and patents), and we are liking the taste of it – at least
February 2022
Letter #6: A Numbers Game
Dear Friend of Ashaya, Just as we started inching towards some sort of normal, the northeast part of the world had other ideas. I would love to just dive in but it’s thoroughly disheartening when we still live in a world where large-scale invasions are a thing. It puts
November 2021
Letter #5: Humans, Machines & Control
Dear Friend of Ashaya, Where do I even start? The last three months have been a whirlwind - like other earlier whirlwinds, but maybe with an increased velocity that makes flying by the seat of my pants more real than metaphorical. Let’s start with people. While our computational chemist
August 2021
Letter #4: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Dear Friend of Ashaya, Everything isn’t always hunky-dory, especially in the start-up world. And we know this, but when you see it happening in slow motion, it’s quite daunting. So far, we had really ridden our luck, making swift progress where it mattered – early breakthroughs, validated direction, and some
May 2021
Letter #3: Strange Times
Dear Friend of Ashaya, It is a strange time to write to you about our progress at Ashaya. As history anticipated, the second wave is throttling us here in Pune and India. Fortunately, we have been healthy so far, but many of our friends, our extended families, and our
January 2021
Letter #2: It’s Lab Time!
Dear Friend of Ashaya, It’s 2021 already, and an entire month of the new year has almost passed. We have made a ton of progress in the last three months, but we still feel like we are moving slowly. I know this sounds trivial, but the biggest update is