Begin with a concrete tension.
Find something real that resists easy explanation. Describe the situation before reaching for a flattering theory.
I'm Sahil Tayal, a writer, independent researcher, creative technologist and perfumer working across psychology, organisations, education, human development and the craft of making.
The thread is curiosity about people: how we act, how we learn, how we relate—and what happens when ideas are built into something you can actually use.
A PORTFOLIO OF QUESTIONS, NOT A CLAIM THAT ALL QUESTIONS ARE SOLVED.
A life has more dimensions than a timeline. These are factual waypoints and themes that help explain the work—not a complete account of everything experienced or learned.
“I don't think a person should have to become one perfectly coherent career story to be useful.”
I studied commerce at Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, and completed an MBA at JBIMS. Professional work exposed me to organisational systems, roles and the distance between formal descriptions and lived reality. Everyday observation in family retail adds another laboratory: one with actual people, constraints and consequences.
Writing, research, small interactive experiments, and perfumery are different ways of asking related questions. The goal is not to prove expertise in every domain. It is to make connections carefully and turn some of them into useful work.
FOR THE LESS FORMAL INTRODUCTION ↗Commerce studies at Sri Venkateswara College, followed by the MBA programme at Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS).
Roles across professional services, operations and work-focused contexts informed ongoing questions about human behaviour and institutions.
Family retail offers a practical vantage point on attention, incentives, coordination, customer behaviour and the reality behind textbook assumptions.
Essays, experimental websites, the Identity–Action Gap model, creative technology and House of Venus fragrance work.
Experience is evidence of participation and learning—not proof that every model presented here is validated.
A curated selection of existing work. These addresses had HTTP responses in the owner's 26 October 2026 Live Domain Atlas; availability of the deeper browser experience is not guaranteed by that check.
What happens between describing ourselves, intending to act and actually doing something? An evolving friction-based proposal, not a peer-reviewed finding.
Why capability, agency, education and dignity should matter alongside productivity measures and organisational results.
Interactive work about separating observation from imagined motives, and noticing what reciprocity can and cannot tell us.
Connections between ideas made tangible in digital interfaces: experiments in recombination, play and exploratory systems.
Using simulated systems to make complexity visible—while keeping the rules, boundaries and uncertainty of any model in view.
An inquiry into labels, expectations and the stories communities tell about people who do not fit simple categories.
A sensory metaphor lab connecting fragrance, memory and experience. An interactive interpretation, not an emotional measurement device.
The creative craft of scent, and how ideas acquire a material form through notes, materials and experiments.
A usable method for turning one worthwhile question into an essay, a prototype, an experiment or a thoughtful collaboration.
Choose what interests you; the site recommends a short, understandable trail through actual work. It isn't profiling you and it doesn't save your choices.
Different starting points lead to different projects. None is prescribed as the correct one.
A good introduction begins with a question you already care about. Select an interest to generate two contextual doorways and a question to take with you.
Interdisciplinary work only earns its keep when it stays honest about what it borrows, what it tests and what it does not know.
Find something real that resists easy explanation. Describe the situation before reaching for a flattering theory.
Read across domains. Explain which ideas came from others, what is established, and which connections are your own hypotheses.
Write, prototype, test assumptions, notice failures and revise. A compelling interface is not a substitute for valid evidence.
Readers should be able to tell whether a statement is a documented biographical fact, an interpretation of experience, or a proposal that still needs testing. That distinction becomes more important, not less, when the design looks compelling.
It is an independent theoretical proposal under development. Its elements should be assessed against existing behavioural research, and its predictions need careful empirical testing.
No. It is a personal and creative research portfolio. It may contain educational material and citations, but that does not confer institutional or peer-reviewed status.
No. Fragrance is an artistic and sensory medium here. Stories about moods and memory should not be confused with medical or psychological measurement.
No. This is a living archive. Some projects are prototypes; links and functionality can change. The main Sahilverse directory has additional status information.
Three readings that help frame the territory. These sources inform the questions; they do not independently validate Sahil's personal hypotheses or products.
Motivation, autonomy, competence and relatedness. Useful vocabulary for asking what good environments make possible.
How beliefs about personal capability matter for action, without assuming belief alone is sufficient.
A serious gateway into questions about what makes someone the same person across time.
Research exchanges, educational experiments, creative technology, writing and fragrance workshops are natural areas for conversation. A good collaboration has a defined problem and mutual value.
“If the idea is worth sharing, let's be clear about what each of us hopes to learn.”
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If you know what you came looking for, this page has done its job. If you don't, choose a curious doorway rather than memorising a list of links.