About
Samatva is taught by Pawan Lohia.
Background
Twenty-four years in corporate finance. Thirteen of them at EY, ending as Senior Manager. Senior roles at Vedanta, SRF and Greenply. Founder Director of Leverest Financial Services, a boutique investment bank with a debt syndication track record beyond Rs 2,000 crore. Chartered Accountant. Executive MBA, IIM Calcutta.
This is not taught from a monastery. It is taught from inside the pressure it addresses. The texts came second — after two decades of deal deadlines, boardrooms, and the particular fatigue that success does not fix.
Track record
- Corporate finance
- Twenty-four years
- EY
- Thirteen years, ending as Senior Manager
- Senior roles
- Vedanta, SRF, Greenply
- Leverest Financial Services
- Founder Director. A boutique investment bank with a debt syndication track record beyond Rs 2,000 crore.
- Qualifications
- Chartered Accountant. Executive MBA, IIM Calcutta.
- Based in
- Kolkata, India
Why Samatva exists
Samatva was founded in April 2026, in Kolkata, around a question that would not resolve: why the people who had done everything correctly were so often the ones paying most quietly for it.
The texts had an answer, and had had one for two thousand years. The answer survived translation into English. It did not survive translation into practice — it arrived instead as consolation, or as an instruction to want less, which is not what it says.
This is the attempt at the second translation. Not the texts made comfortable, but the texts made usable, by someone who needed them to work inside a career rather than instead of one.
Ambition is not the problem. Attachment to the outcome is.
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Send a message. Three lines is enough: what you do, where the pressure sits, and what you want to be different in three months.