A cool way to let go of stress. A short book folded into a deck of 52 cards, drawn by hand.
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Calmasutras is a playing-card deck with a small book tucked inside the suits. Each card carries one idea, distilled across three decades of Rajesh Setty's life as a tech founder, mentor, and writer. Drawn by hand. Quietly useful. The kind of thing that earns its spot on your desk.
Diamonds
Hearts
Spades
Clubs
Each card,
a keeper.
Ace of Diamonds · Sutra 1
Self-care is not optional
An old idea, given a new home. You can take care of others only as well as you take care of yourself — and not a step further. The oxygen mask first. The simplest principle in leadership, hidden in plain sight.
3 of Spades · Sutra 3
Gift or lesson, always
Two labels. That is all. Every encounter, every outcome, every conversation — a gift or a lesson, nothing else. The moment you label it, you stop carrying it. An idea older than every productivity system, and still the most useful.
Queen of Diamonds · Sutra 13
Curiosity that serves you
There is curiosity that builds you, and curiosity that drains you. The skill is in knowing the difference before you click. A simple sorting question that quietly returns the hours you never realised you were spending.
2 of Hearts · Sutra 2
You can't lose what you don't have
From the Bhagavad Gita to your Monday morning. You can grieve outcomes that have not happened, or you can be free of them. The same idea, told a thousand ways across the centuries — captured here in one card.
It travels well.
It plays well too.
Tea on a stone table. A long lunch with someone you actually like. A Sunday that refuses to be hurried. Calmasutras was made for moments like these — and the people who collect them.
Begin
Calmness,
a card at a time.
Read first. Hold the deck. Or both. The format you choose decides the ritual.
The eBook
Rajesh Setty's complete book — 52 ideas, three decades of thinking, all in one place. Read it in one sitting. Return to the ideas that hit.
- All 52 ideas, in full
- Read on any device
- Yours, permanently
The Bundle
Read the book. Hold the deck. The full thing — the cooler way to keep an idea close.
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The Deck
52 cards, drawn by hand, in a tuck box that looks better than it has any reason to. Pulls clean. Sits well on a desk. Carries the whole book between its suits.
- 52 hand-drawn playing cards
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8 of Clubs · Sutra 44
Stay relevant, forget the competition
Remain relevant and valuable by continually raising your standards. Don't worry about competition; focus on growing calmly.
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A book disguised as a deck. Written by Rajesh Setty across three decades of building, mentoring, and writing about what calm under pressure actually looks like.
Self-care is not optional
Calmasutras 1
Prioritize self-care as it enables you to care for others effectively. Think of the airplane oxygen mask analogy -- you must help yourself first before you can help anyone else.
Not just a deck of cards.
A book in beautiful disguise.
A short book by Rajesh Setty, broken into 52 cards. A picture-puzzle hiding inside them. Drawn by hand. Quietly useful. The object you reach for without thinking about why.
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Each suit takes a different angle — how you think, how you lead, how you recover, how you choose. Every card drawn by hand. Browse slowly.
Ace of Diamonds
2 of Diamonds
3 of Diamonds
4 of Diamonds
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✦ 52 cards · 1 tree
Not just a deck.
A puzzle that grows a tree.
Open the box. Pull a card each morning. Then one quiet afternoon, lay all 52 out on the table. They click into a single hand-painted Calm Tree — every card a leaf, every idea a branch. A puzzle you did not know you bought. The kind of afternoon you keep promising yourself.
A puzzle hidden inside the deck.
Lay all 52 out and the Calm Tree appears. Every card a leaf. Every idea a branch. A hidden picture quietly built into the deck.
A ritual worth protecting.
Tea. No screens. Kids passing pieces across the table. The kind of afternoon that becomes the one they remember.
Two practices, one deck.
One card every morning for a quiet daily edge. Or all 52 together to build something people stop mid-conversation to ask about.
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RajeshSetty
Entrepreneur, author, teacher, creator, and amateur stand-up comic. Driven by a mission to create a better world, one thoughtful project at a time.
Decades of wisdom distilled into 52 beautifully illustrated cards and a companion book of transformative ideas.
rajeshsetty.comThe first readers,
in their own words.
Calmasutras is finding its way to writers, founders, and quiet thinkers around the world. Here's what they've said when they first held it.
“Rajesh has a quiet way of building things that are both deeply meaningful and beautifully crafted. Calmasutras is exactly that.”
“Beautiful work, and what a wonderful name. Everything about Calmasutras carries a quiet elegance that's rare to find in any product today.”
“Beyond amazing. The design, the idea, the intention behind every card. Calmasutras is one of those rare projects you can't help but fall in love with.”
“Stunning. The kind of project where you don't think twice before pre-ordering. I can already feel the calm radiating off the cards.”
The thoughtful gift.
Built to be kept.
Drawn by hand, with a small book between the suits and a picture-puzzle hiding inside the 52. Each recipient gets theirs delivered directly. Leaders, teams, clients, offsite guests — the kind of gift that survives the drawer test.
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