India Times Now featured Dr Sanjay Sarda in its June 2026 edition, in a piece on continual reinvention, letting go and creating new beginnings. It focuses on the latest of his many chapters, a move to the hills of Solan, and what that move says about making room for a better life.
Few careers change colour as often as Dr Sanjay Sarda’s. He holds a B.Tech, a postgraduate degree from IIM Calcutta and an honorary doctorate in music therapy. Along the way he has been a management consultant, music therapist, life coach, spiritual seeker and startup mentor, and India Times Now notes that he keeps surprising those who follow his work. Its feature looks past the awards to the idea underneath them all. Success comes from putting down what you no longer need, so that a meaningful life has room to grow.
When the pressure cooker is about to whistle
The image is a familiar one. Sometimes life feels heavy and complicated, and the mind is a pressure cooker about to whistle. That, the feature says, is the time to let go. It calls this spring cleaning for the soul, a response to lives that have filled up with too much needless clutter.
There are three things to let go of:
- ambitions and pursuits that serve no real purpose
- toxic relationships
- time poorly spent
The feature also offers a practical route: letting go comes far more easily when you change your surroundings. Once the setting changes, the rest tends to follow.
Letting go is not losing. It clears space for a life that finally fits, lived with peace, purpose and joy.
Solace in Solan
His own latest chapter began with exactly that kind of change: a recent move to the quiet hills of Solan, in Himachal Pradesh.
The feature paints the town as a place of unspoilt nature and birdsong. The people are simple, unassuming and spontaneous, and the air is clean. As the piece puts it, “the Divine seems to have better network coverage than our mobile provider.” Life slows down enough to let you hear your own thoughts. Purpose comes naturally, through adding value, spreading happiness and radiating positivity. It is a place where you can find again the person you had lost along the way.
The lesson is not that everyone should move to Solan. It is that everyone needs a Solan of their own: a personal sanctuary away from the hustle, the noise and the complications we create for ourselves. He appears to have found his.
More than one identity
His message lands hardest with people at a crossroads. Corporate professionals, retirees and senior citizens often struggle to work out who they are after decades of structured careers. He encourages them to welcome change rather than fear it.
His own story makes the case. A life need not be confined to a single identity. A successful executive can become a healer, and a business leader a spiritual guide. Someone who spent years chasing achievements can come to see inner peace as the greatest achievement of all.
Beginning again
The feature closes on the thought that ties his journey together. Reinvention is possible at any stage, and “purpose often begins where comfort ends.” Sometimes the most meaningful success lies less in holding on than in finding the courage to let go and start over.
This article draws on Dr Sanjay Sarda’s feature in India Times Now, June 2026 edition, page 31.