YOU'VE
BEEN HACKED.*
The monkeys have seized the homepage. Sahil's actual universe is still alive.
*This is a deliberately theatrical parody. No hacking, malware, stolen data, or security incident is being claimed. We just wanted to make the internet a little more ridiculous.
Enter the
universe.
One curious human. Many interconnected worlds. Essays on how we live, experiments in how we learn, fragrances that express feeling — and the joy of being unfinished.
Start somewhere.
No correct order. You don't have to explore everything. Follow the question that interests you.
Read an idea.
Long-form essays about behaviour, education, culture and the ordinary miracle of being alive.
Browse essays ↗Explore a project.
Actual experiments and independent work — from learning models to fragrance.
See selected work ↗Meet the human.
One life connecting research, family business, making things and writing them down.
The story ↗Ideas with a pulse.
A few real essays to start with. No need to navigate an entire archive before finding something worth reading.
Beyond the Classroom
Imagining an education that makes room for different minds, not just a narrow definition of achievement.
Read the essay ↗I Listen to Lil Wayne. I Also Think Schools Should Teach Emotional Literacy.
On the difference between enjoying art, endorsing its message, and educating for emotional maturity.
Read the essay ↗Randall Had Access to the Principal
Mercury, the Sun and organisational politics: a playful lens on status, access and institutions.
Read the essay ↗Not just ideas.
Things made.
Some work is research, some is craft, some is an experiment. None needs to pretend to be something it isn't.
Education, reimagined.
What would learning look like if we made more room for human variation, agency and curiosity?
Explore education ↗🧪The ideas laboratory.
Behavioural questions, conceptual models and experiments in understanding why humans do what they do.
Enter the lab ↗🌹House of Venus.
Independent perfumery: scent as an expressive craft and a way to explore moods and identity.
Explore perfumery ↗🌱Resilience, without spectacle.
On rebuilding without the pressure to turn every difficult chapter into a heroic comeback story.
Read the reflections ↗A human, not a niche.
I'm Sahil Tayal, based in New Delhi. My background crosses business, organisational behaviour and family retail; my interests keep wandering into writing, education, psychology, technology and perfumery.
This website is a living index of those interests. Some pages contain finished essays. Others hold developing ideas, prototypes or creative experiments. You are welcome to disagree, wander, leave, or come back later.
All the rabbit holes.
The deeper directory. Search a topic or choose a theme; these doors lead to different corners of the same evolving body of work.
No matching worlds. Try another curiosity.
“Not every interest needs to become a career. Some things are worth exploring because being alive is interesting.”
Still becoming. Always curious. Based in New Delhi.