Ideas. Roads. Resolve.
I help people own what they invent.
Most good ideas are not stolen. They are lost — because nobody ever told the person who had it that it was worth protecting. That is the gap I work in, usually in a hall somewhere I had to drive a very long way to reach.
What I do
Three things, one idea
underneath all of them
That an idea belongs to the person who had it — and that most people need someone to tell them so before they will act on it.
Seminars, workshops and classrooms
Intellectual property explained in language that works for a first-year student and still holds up for a faculty member running a cell.
Start with the basics →Institutions, cells and a mission
Helping colleges and organisations put the structure in place so ideas keep moving after the session ends and everyone goes home.
Mission I.N.V.E.N.T. →The road, and what I saw on it
Journeys, photographs and writing from a country that looks different at ground level than it does from a boardroom.
On the road →My story
It starts in a very small village
Somewhere of about 250 people (evidence: Stated by Dhruv, evidence being collected), by my own count — and it runs to a practice that now works with institutions across the country.
I am wary of telling that as a straight line, because it was not one. There were years of driving to rooms where nobody had heard of me, sessions that landed and sessions that did not, and a long stretch of learning a subject that most people find deliberately intimidating.
What I can say plainly is where I started, and what I have been doing since. The rest of it — the numbers, the institutions, what belongs to me and what belongs to my team — is set out carefully, because in this field being loose with attribution is not a small thing.
Current mission
Teach half a million people to own what they invent
Mission I.N.V.E.N.T. is aiming at 5,00,000 people (evidence: A target, not an achievement) across India by 2028.
It runs on simple IPR education, student innovation culture, grassroots protection and I.N.V.E.N.T. Clubs on campuses. Institutions host it, students run it, and the point is always what happens after the session rather than the session itself.
That number is a target we set, not a result we have banked. Progress gets published here separately, with the date it was measured, once the counting method is settled.
On the road
The work happens
where the roads go
Seminars are not held on the internet. They are held in towns you reach by driving, often overnight, often twice in a week.
I have covered something like five lakh kilometres (evidence: Stated by Dhruv, evidence being collected) in recent years doing this. I am in the middle of pinning that figure down properly — what counts, over what period — and publishing the working rather than just the answer.
The trips themselves are worth more than the total anyway. Landscapes, dhabas at two in the morning, mechanical trouble, and the people you only meet because you were slow enough to stop.
Writing
From the journal
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Method
How the numbers on this site work
Why every figure here carries a colour, a source and a review date — and why some of them are missing on purpose.
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Essay
From a village register to a patent register
The origin essay: what a small village taught Dhruv about ownership, and what that has to do with intellectual property.
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IPR explainer
What intellectual property actually protects
Patents, trademarks, designs, copyright — in plain language, with the mistakes first-time filers make most often.
Life in frames
An archive of 25,000 photographs (evidence: Stated by Dhruv, evidence being collected), opened slowly
Almost none of it has ever been published. I would rather release it properly than empty a hard drive onto the internet — so it comes out in chapters, each with a theme, a date range and a note about where it was taken.
People, landscapes, work in the field, and a lot of road.
Speaking & media
Bring this to your campus or newsroom
Topics, formats, biographies and a press kit with approved photographs are all in one place — so an organiser or a journalist can get what they need without waiting on an email.
- Formats
- Seminar, workshop, keynote, panel
- Audiences
- Students, faculty, founders, MSMEs
- Reach
- Campuses across India
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