I'm a lawyer who spends my days navigating complex commercial disputes, and, by night, I wrestle with questions that courts can't answer. How do power structures really work? What makes institutions legitimate? Why do some societies flourish while others fracture? These aren't abstract puzzles to me—they're the threads that connect my work in the courtroom to the larger questions of justice and governance that keep me up at night.

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My legal practice has taken me from the highest courts in India to high-octane courts across the United States, working on everything from antitrust to corporate governance disputes. After completing my LLM at UC Berkeley in 2019, I moved to the Bay Area, where the proximity to both Silicon Valley innovation and San Francisco rebellion has sharpened my thinking about how technology and politics intersect.

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Regarder—meaning "to look" or "to pay attention" in French—grew out of this restless curiosity. I started writing because I needed a place to think through the connections between the legal frameworks I work within and the political realities they're supposed to govern. What began as personal reflection became something larger: a platform for anyone who believes that careful attention to how power works is the first step toward making it work better.

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The platform's spirit lives in its slogan: "Peut-être"—"perhaps." I'm less interested in providing definitive answers than in asking better questions. My background gives me one lens for understanding how institutions function and fail, but I know that meaningful change requires perspectives I don't have. That's why I write: not to lecture, but to learn.

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Join me if you're someone who thinks the law should serve justice, that institutions should serve people, and that paying attention—really paying attention—might be the most radical act of all.

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N.D.