Left Is Right book cover

The Book

Left Is Right

The subtle art of taking the wrong f#cking turn — and arriving anyway.

Two men ride motorcycles across India in the confident and occasionally delusional belief that they know where they are going. One arrives with a plan; the other simply arrives. In each story something goes wrong — and out of the wrongness comes a lesson of such philosophical completeness that you begin to wonder whether the wrongness was the point.

From a free ambulance in Hyderabad to the highest motorable roads on earth, Left Is Right is a travelogue, a partnership, and a quiet manual for making decisions when the map runs out.

PrologueHyderabad · 108Ooty · Rider Mania 200 BikesBhutanLeh · Ladakh ShillongThe Facebook DiaryEpilogueAnnexure
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What's inside

Seven roads

Hyderabad, two Ootys, Bhutan, Leh, Shillong — and the people, dhabas and wrong turns between and beside them.

Ten principles

From “carry a cigarette foil” to “left was right, and right led to the unforgettable adventure” — each earned on the road, each applied in business.

The third account

The Shillong ride as it actually happened — posted to Facebook in real time, with a whole chorus of friends riding along from their desks.

The principle that names the book

“So Left was Right. But Right led you to an unforgettable adventure. Both are true simultaneously.” Vamshi, at the Dantak tea house

At a fork in Phuntsholing at 4:30 a.m., Vamshi took the new road and arrived on time with both wheels attached. Vinod, following the wrong tail light, took the washed-out old road, arrived three hours late with a loosening axle nut — and brought back the best chapter in the book. The correct path and the memorable path are often different roads. The discipline is knowing which one you're on.

Prayer flags on a mountain road in Bhutan

From the road

The Manali–Leh highway The road to Thimphu Motorcycles at Rider Mania An engine opened on the highway

A few frames from a thousand. The book and its Annexure carry the rest — including all 51 screenshots of the Shillong ride.

The book is the case study. The Lab is the curriculum.

The same partnership that wrote these stories turns them into a field-lab on how organisations make better decisions under uncertainty.

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