About

There is a kind of question that will not stay quiet. Not the kind that has an answer in a textbook, or even a Google search — but the kind that sits at the back of everything, waiting.

What is really happening here, underneath the explanation we have settled for? What does the ground actually look like — not the map, not the model, not the comfortable version — the ground?

That restlessness is what Open Ground is for.

I am drawn to questions about how we know what we think we know — the philosophy of ground reality. About measurement: how the act of measuring something changes it, how the indicator becomes the target, how organisations and individuals can track everything and understand nothing. About strategy as hypothesis: the gap between the theory we draw on paper and the reality that pushes back. And about the largest questions — consciousness, the structure of the universe, the search for self — not as abstractions but as live inquiries that deserve the same rigour we would bring to anything else.

The format of every essay here — Observation, Exploration, Ground — is a discipline, not a style. It forces me to start in reality, to resist the leap to conclusion, and to actually land somewhere. The middle part is where the thinking lives. That is what I am here for.

I am based in Gurugram, India.

Connect / Collaborate - Email - avonsahni@gmail.com