Vishwakarma 2.0: The Cosmic Architect Goes Corporate

If Silicon Valley had an ancient mascot, it wouldn’t be Steve Jobs or Elon Musk. It would be Vishwakarma -  the divine engineer, the celestial draftsman, the original CAD designer whose blueprints date back not to the Industrial Revolution but to the Rig Veda itself. While modern architects struggle with AutoCAD updates and zoning laws, Vishwakarma was sketching palaces in the clouds and installing golden chariots before Wi-Fi was even a twinkle in a router’s eye.

From Mandalas to Malls

In the Rig Veda mandalas, Vishwakarma emerges not just as a builder but as the cosmic engineer. He is credited with shaping the heavens, the earth, and everything in between. Think of him as the project manager of Creation, minus the Gantt charts but plus a divine set of tools that make today’s 3D printers look like preschool toys.

Fast forward to 2025. Imagine Vishwakarma parachuting into the modern world. What would he do? For one, he’d be snatched up instantly by a unicorn startup. Forget CTO -  he’d be the CVO, Chief Vishwakarma Officer, handling everything from skyscraper skylines to Mars colonies. Elon Musk would probably send him a LinkedIn request with the message: “Can you help me build a real Iron Man suit?”

The God of Procurement (and HR Nightmares)

In ancient lore, Vishwakarma didn’t just build. He also supplied. The Pushpaka Vimana (the flying Chariot), Ravana’s flying palace, was basically the prototype for private jets, except with floral upholstery and no carbon footprint. Today, imagine him as head of procurement for an aircraft manufacturer, rolling his eyes at the delays. “In my time,” he’d mutter, “we built aerial palaces in a week, powered by mantras. You can't even finish one A… or a B… plane without paperwork and delays!”

But corporate life wouldn’t be easy for him. HR would struggle to categorize his skillset. “God? Engineer? Creative director?” His appraisal would be a nightmare: “Strengths: omniscient craftsmanship. Weaknesses: occasionally disappears into meditation mid-project.”

Vishwakarma and the Tech Bros

Every September, India celebrates Vishwakarma Puja -  a day when artisans, engineers, and mechanics worship their tools. In garages, factories, IT offices, and even schools, where laptops and wrenches are garlanded like beauty pageant contestants. Imagine Vishwakarma scrolling through Instagram reels of his own festival. “They’re putting marigolds on a spanner?” he’d sigh. “At least upgrade to a cordless drill, folks.”

Still, he’d fit right in with the modern tech bros. Who else could design Indraprastha, the dazzling city of the Pandavas, complete with palaces whose walls played holographic tricks? That’s essentially what augmented reality was like before Apple Vision Pro became popular. Today, he’d probably run a design lab at Apple itself, telling Tim Cook: “You call this a vision? Let me show you cosmic vision.”

Construction Sites and Cosmic Patents

If Vishwakarma had to walk through a modern Indian construction site, he’d have mixed feelings. On the one hand, there are scaffolds, cement mixers, and workers wearing yellow helmets. On the other hand, there are potholes big enough to swallow a dump truck, or a submerged city that has experienced an extended downpour of rain. He might call a press conference: “In Rig Veda times, we built entire heavens without tender scams. What happened to integrity and quality control?”

Also, imagine his frustration with patent offices. “So you’re telling me I need to file an application to protect the design of the Sudarshan Chakra? I invented infinity, for heaven’s sake!”

The Eternal Architect

Yet beneath the humor, there’s something eternal about Vishwakarma’s myth. His role as the craftsman of the gods reflects a more profound truth: civilizations stand not only on warriors, poets, priests, or prophets but on builders, engineers, and makers. The bridges we cross, the smartphones we swipe, the satellites orbiting above us -  all of them are echoes of his legacy. Every nut and bolt tightened by a mechanic, every architect hunched over a drawing board, is in some way part of the Vishwakarma lineage.

Vishwakarma Today

If he’s around today, perhaps he’s hiding in plain sight - in the quiet hum of a machine, in the symmetry and stability of a suspension bridge, in the perfect alignment of a wheel, the precision of a motherboard, or the super-optimized AI algorithm creating robots. He’s the god who never retired, who just updated his toolkit: from celestial chisels to AI-driven CAD software.

And maybe, when a frazzled engineer finally fixes a bug at 3 a.m. and feels that sudden rush of satisfaction, that’s Vishwakarma whispering: “Nice work, kid. Welcome to the guild.”

Which is why every Vishwakarma Jayanti (loosely translated as the Celebration of the Celestial Craftsman) and, honestly, every day, should feel like a tribute. A tribute not just to the celestial architect in the scriptures, but to the countless engineers, builders, craftsmen, and women of today who, with love and passion, are still creating this beautiful world, one design, one bolt, one dream at a time.

I bow to their craft!