sree@auroville:~$ — a shell session

sree@auroville: ~ 80×24 · vt220 · ssh

sree@auroville:~$ whoami

Sreekandh Balakrishnan — a.k.a. gnuyoga Global Technology Director · Student of Vedanta

sree@auroville:~$ cat about.txt

Global Technology Director at Travelopia, and India Director for Enchanting Travels, the group's home brand. My work, in one line: be a catalyst for business transformation. I've tried it many times — sometimes it lands, sometimes it half-lands, sometimes it doesn't. I keep going.

I treat life and work as one long experiment — a dreamer correcting the dream as he implements it. Off the clock: Sanskrit, Jyotish, and the older question of what it means to build with intent. Some days the two halves talk to each other. Some days they argue. I write about both.

sree@auroville:~$ ls work/ && cat work/*

01_technology_and_transformation — Leading product and engineering across India, the UK, and the US. Building AI-first teams that don't trade craft for speed.

02_trustee_and_advisor — Trustee at Equal Experts. Advisor at GoSports.in, a foundation in service of athletes. Quiet roles, long horizons.

03_writing_at_the_seam — Essays where dharma meets delivery, on Substack and LinkedIn. Compressed, paradox-tolerant, occasionally Sanskrit.

sree@auroville:~$ cat pranams.log # made by many hands — a partial list

[1980s]: Born into the Balakrishnan family. My elder brothers gave me the two halves I still carry — Sreeram opened computer science to me; Sreedhar opened the path inward.
[teens]: Prakash Anna, my spiritual brother. Nair Uncle, my first astrology teacher.
[2002-2008]: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar — to stay grounded, to breathe.
[2008]: Met Priyanka. Sripriya is the spiritual name her master gave her.
[2011+]: The Laxminarayana brothers — Abhishek and Parik — opened the professional door. Abhishek welcomed me into tech; Parik taught me business ethics and how to run and scale a global business. Yogen in the early Enchanting Travels years.
[last_decade]: Mike taught me to be calm and composed. Chris taught me that Rome isn't built in a day — patience, the right thing, one at a time. Thomas at Equal Experts showed me you can run a company without OKRs or weekly meetings, simply by focusing on customers.

// Many more whose names belong in their own essay. Pranams to all — // known and unknown, this lifetime and the ones before. Gratitude always.

sree@auroville:~$ ls closer-in/

Two children — Krish (2015) and Neeraja (2019) — who have shaped me more than any book or framework has. My partner Sripriya runs Aevam, a yoga studio.

We made the slow move to Auroville — the experimental bioregion near coastal Tamil Nadu. Slower life, deeper roots. (The full story is in the essays.)

sree@auroville:~$ tail -f currents.log

> The shift from buying AI tools to rebuilding how we work. Digital coworkers as a serious organisational claim, not a slogan.

> Co-authoring on the human side of AI adoption — the part of the change curve no roadmap captures.

> A small podcast — unhurried conversations with people I find interesting. Kanika Kohli, Anil Grovor, more coming.

> Building Kaalapurusha — a modern Jyotish toolchain in Python on the Swiss Ephemeris. Sidereal positions, dasha timelines, classical yogas.

> Building quietly for others — pages, tools, small digital things for people in my world. A new thread I'm enjoying.

> And the daily practice itself: yoga, mantra, the steady work of paying attention.

sree@auroville:~$ ls -la recently/ # in the open

drwx» Astrology 101 Companion [BUILDING] — a learning companion for the foundations of Vedic astrology. With Vikram Devatha. drwx» Living in Auroville [BETA] — a calm reading layer over Auroville–Pondicherry announcements. -rw-» From outside the fence [STORY 01] — how we came to Auroville, with a comic strip and a small word-gate. -rw-» Conversations on camera [WATCH] — a small podcast Sree hosts. The occasional interview. One TED talk. -rw-» Voices worth carrying [SIGNALS] — pieces from senior leaders whose thinking I find worth carrying. -rw-» Builders I'm rooting for [NETWORK] — people back at the frontier, making things from scratch. -rw-» Dr. Shankaran's Monsoon Drive [CHARITY] — 26 years of school bags and umbrellas for children in Palakkad villages. -rw-» Travelopia's big AI experiment [FEATURED · Raconteur] -rw-» Release notes [TRAIL] — a short log of what's shipped here.

sree@auroville:~$ grep -i believe ~/.philosophy

The scientific mind tests what can be measured. The Vedic heart sits with what cannot. I hold them as equal instruments — and refuse to choose between them.

sree@auroville:~$ cat ~/notes/on-showing-up.md

For a long time, I hated social media. Then came Orkut — do you even remember it? It barely exists now.

I've created and deleted my Instagram ten times, installed and uninstalled the app a hundred. Eventually I gave up and use it on the web — or borrow my partner's phone for a reel. LinkedIn I needed for work; around 2010 I had a thousand-plus contacts and no real connection with most, so I deleted it and started over. The rule since: only add people I've actually met and can recall by name.

And then — slowly, over the last year — my build mojo came back. The new-age agents made it possible to ship things I'd carried in my head for a decade. The dreamer finally caught up with the doer. I'm alive again.

Studying astrology this last year showed me something I'd been side-stepping: I gain energy when I'm visible. Not the performative kind — the steady kind. So this whole site is in some part an experiment in showing up. Wish me luck.

sree@auroville:~$ finger sree

Login: sree Name: Sreekandh Balakrishnan Plan: LinkedIn in/sreekandhbalakrishnan Substack sreebalakrishnan.substack.com YouTube @sreekandhbalakrishnan WhatsApp /connect E-Mail sreekandhbalakrishnan@gmail.com A heads-up — I'm slow to reply. But I read everything that comes in.

sree@auroville:~$ logout

गुरुभ्यो नमः // Salutation to all masters — known and unknown. // The flow of this work is surrendered at your lotus feet, with love and gratitude.

sree@auroville:~$