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In development
TriCity
A local-first app shaped around the everyday needs of Chandigarh, Mohali, and Panchkula. Built close to the people it is meant to serve.
Chandigarh · Mohali · Panchkula
I build useful things.
I speak my mind.
Apps, city life, food habits, realty, people, and the questions hiding in plain sight. This is where I share what I am building—and what I am learning along the way.
01 A personal space for work in progress.
BUILDING ◆ TRICITY ◆ FOOD ◆ REALTY ◆ PEOPLE ◆ CONVERSATIONS ◆
Work in progress
Ideas should eventually become useful.
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Since 2019
Nineteenth May
A hospitality venture built from decades of experience—and a continuing lesson in food, service, teams, and human behaviour.
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Always open
What comes next
Experiments, apps, and practical ideas that begin with a real problem—not a polished pitch.
Experience, distilled
Built in real rooms, with real stakes.
More than two decades across Hyatt, JW Marriott, Rotana, The Claridges, DLF, and entrepreneurship taught me something larger than hospitality: good ideas survive when people, systems, and judgment work together.
20+years building and leading operations
500+curated events delivered as an entrepreneur
80+team members trained to hotel-brand standards
Build from zero
A blank room needs more than a vision.
Launching new hotel concepts, DLF’s flagship Tricity clubhouse, and Nineteenth May meant turning an idea into the full operating backbone—teams, technology, procurement, service flow, training, and standards.
Lead at scale
Complexity becomes calm when the system is clear.
At JW Marriott Chandigarh, I led a 90-member team across five venues and more than 20,000 square feet of banqueting. In the UAE, the work crossed properties, formats, and teams drawn from more than 20 nationalities.
Deliver under pressure
The guest should never see the machinery.
Diplomatic assignments, luxury weddings, corporate events, and demanding everyday operations reinforced one principle: preparation creates confidence, and leadership is most visible when something unexpected happens.
Become the builder
Experience matters most when it becomes your own.
Since 2019, I have translated five-star discipline into an independent, multi-vertical business spanning dining, catering, events, bakery, and bar operations—without losing the warmth that makes hospitality human.
These chapters are not the boundary of what I discuss. They are the ground beneath how I think about teams, technology, cities, service, and building anything that must work in the real world.
Thinking in public
No single lane.
One honest voice.
I am interested in the connections between how we live, what we build, what we eat, where we invest, and how our cities change. The subject may move. The point of view stays personal.
City & reality
The lived truth of the TriCity—its opportunities, frictions, neighbourhoods, and future.
Food & habits
Beyond restaurants: how culture, routine, health, hospitality, and human behaviour meet at the table.
Realty & growth
Clear observations about places, property, development, and the decisions people make around them.
Technology & apps
Building from real needs, learning openly, and making technology feel useful rather than distant.
People & work
Teams, leadership, employee realities, entrepreneurship, and lessons earned the practical way.
Conversations
Some ideas need a microphone.
Podcasts, live sessions, and candid conversations with people who have something real to say. Less performance. More perspective.
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Experience gives me a point of view. Curiosity keeps it open.
I’m Manouj Kaushikk—an entrepreneur, hospitality professional, and builder based in the TriCity.
My work has taught me to pay attention: to people, systems, habits, and the gap between how things look and how they actually work. I use this space to share projects in development, practical experience, and thoughts that do not belong to any one company.
This is a personal platform. Businesses may be part of the story, but they are not the boundary of the conversation.
Building something useful—or thinking about a question that deserves an honest conversation?