About Shriharsh Sonar's Personal Blog

About Shriharsh Sonar

I think deeply. Sometimes relentlessly.
But I try to express.

I have learned that pain can either be consumed or converted. I chose conversion.

I do not submit myself to numbing habits, easy escapes, or performative suffering. When life presses hard, I build. I write. I design. I stay present. Creation, for me, has always been a more honest response than indulgence — a way to turn pressure into something human, useful, and quietly enduring.

My thinking has been shaped by strategy, systems, and consequence — years spent understanding how decisions ripple through organizations, families, and lives. But my writing has been shaped elsewhere: in hospital corridors, in silence, in responsibility, and in moments where endurance mattered more than expression.

Family CEO was written largely while navigating cancer beside my wife — not as a book idea, but as a survival structure. Choose Your Hard – Personal Life Edition emerged when withdrawing inward felt healthier than conversation, and discipline felt safer than despair. Writing became my way of staying constructive — of choosing creation over collapse.

Every project I write carries lived experience behind it.

Before Dawn explores ambition, power, corporate ecosystems, and moral compromise through the lens of an exceptionally ambitious woman — not as commentary, but as examination. It is not a corporate thriller by observation; it is one born from proximity to boardrooms, hierarchies, and human cost.

The Hidden Treasures of Death Hollow took shape during the uncertainty of COVID, in collaboration with a UK production team — thousands of emails, revisions, and design discussions, all focused on protecting the soul of the story across borders. The effort was invisible to readers, but deliberate, sustained, and exacting.

The illustrated jungle stories — Raiba and the Queen of the Jungle, The Hidden Treasures of Death Hollow, and others — carry a deeper lineage. Their roots go back to the 1980s, when my father contributed illustrated stories to Marathi newspapers. Those narratives were revived decades later from fragile black-and-white cuttings — each frame revisited, reimagined, and refined. Across nearly six illustrated books, more than a 1000 illustrations were drawn, examined, and reworked — some revisited twenty times or more — to honour both memory and craft.

Nothing here is accidental.
Nothing is rushed.
Nothing is written lightly.

I believe complexity is inevitable. Confusion is optional.
I believe ambition must be examined, not worshipped.
I believe systems should serve people — not the other way around.

My work, across fiction and nonfiction, is guided by one principle: win–win thinking. For families. For institutions. For communities. For humans at large. I am not interested in success that leaves damage behind.

I think in worlds, not one-offs.
In systems, not slogans.
In stories that carry consequence.

If there is a single thread running through everything I create, it is this:
to make sense of complexity without losing compassion.

Stories move hearts.
Systems hold lives together.
And when built honestly, both can outlive the moment that created them.

Thank you for reading slowly.