Categories

#Rants

• UCC, Polygamous Gods, and the Leftist Cowardice 2025-01-13
• Cheapest Data My Ass: The Regressive Tax on Being Poor 2024-09-13
• Laddu Logic and the Feedback Loop of Shit 2023-02-11

#culture

• We Need MSG, Not the Messenger of God 2015-12-15
• The Nandri Tax 2015-03-20

#deadrat

• Mothers' Day (Note the Apostrophe) 2025-05-12
• The Sample Size Delusion 2023-11-07
• Consolidating the Dumpster Fire 2022-01-13
• The Green Stain 2020-02-14
• Can pain rob me of my sanity (or is it making me sane again?) 2019-08-12
• He(/she) isn’t the same person I fell in love with. (Or maybe I never met them.) 2019-07-21
• A lame shitpost about Convocation. 2019-03-30
• Warning: Possible Explosion 2018-12-18
• Open letter - Apology for being politically incorrect 2017-08-22
• Visible Work, Invisible Women 2017-08-21
• Put Away Childish Things 2017-02-12
• Why Should Sainath Be a Mahatma? 2016-07-09
• Nothing Personal Anymore 2015-08-22
• As if someone else is listening 2014-12-15
• I am so dumb 2014-08-21
• Anna Jarvis Can't Rest 2011-05-08
• I am still deadrat 2010-06-17
• Education important? 2009-08-22
• deadrat needs a girlfriend...? 2009-04-03
• Sometimes, saving ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓... 2008-12-01
• Wood Is Renewable, You Idiot 2008-11-28
• Fuck You tree hugging bastards 2008-11-27
• Hey Dad! I 'll disappoint you. 2008-09-15
• This is not really a blog 2008-08-11
• Introduction 2008-08-09
• Easy method to kill onesself. 2008-08-08

#diary

• Ad Usum Delphini: Breaking Character 2024-06-10
• The Non-Veg Cost Dilemma and Cheap Protein 2015-11-02

#essays

• Electoral Hygiene: Breaking the Information and Finance Cartels 2025-12-25
• The Bicameral Mirage: Reforming Legislative Design for a Modern Republic 2025-12-20
• The Demographic Penalty: Fiscal Federalism and the 2026 Delimitation Crisis 2025-12-15
• The Federal Imperative: Structural Decentralization as a Prerequisite for Governance 2025-12-01
• Institutional Fragility: The Structural Erosion of Legislative Accountability in India 2025-11-15
• Structural Deficits in Representative Democracy: The Case for Electoral Reform in India 2025-11-01
• Homelab Rationalization: Optimizing for Cognitive Bandwidth 2025-10-15
• Mitigating Radiant Heat: A Low-Cost Roof Misting Case Study 2024-06-10

#life

• Hard Water and Dead Nozzles 2024-06-05
• Scavenging for Pressure: The Mechanics of the Mist 2024-05-10
• Evaporative Cooling, Red Tiles, and the Unforgiving Sun 2024-05-08
• Stranger to the Hallway 2017-12-15
• The Assassins on the Farm 2015-03-22
• The Physics of Insecurity 2014-11-20
• A Rooftop of One's Own 2014-06-15
• Feet-Forward Bikes: Why Are We Still Riding Like We're on Horses? 2011-04-23

#memoir

• The Asus Fonepad Shift 2013-09-20
• Dongles, ShipIt CDs, and Distro Hopping 2012-06-15
• The Lotus Pink Dell Inspiron 15R (N5010) 2010-11-09

#meta

• Follow-up to 2012 - the old posts are gone (for real) 2017-09-21
• Most of the Old posts are gone; (Actually moved to someplace safe 😉 ) 2012-07-07

#music

• Sollisai and the Floodgates 2026-07-16

#personal

• Music for Simpletons 2026-07-13
• The Red Ochre Vaetti and the R5 Station 2017-03-09

#presentations

• AI-Powered Relationship Mediation: Help When You Need It Most 2025-07-07
• Feet-Forward Bikes (Presentation) 2025-04-23
• Building India's First Verified LGBT-Friendly Dating App 2025-01-11

#rants

• Colonial Hangovers and Kerala Heat 2012-09-25

#social

• The Pidgin Patriots 2026-08-12
• The Provincial Churchill 2026-08-08
• The Thin-Skinned Monarch and the Double Entendre 2026-08-05
• The Architecture of the Scam 2026-07-29
• Green Copper Grift 2026-07-15
• The Charismatic Clone 2026-07-11
• The Tenant's Shield: Notes and a Draft Agreement from the Vellalore Trenches 2026-07-08
• The Spectacle of the Shrug 2026-07-06
• The Court and the Compassion Grift 2026-06-28
• OJT for Clowns 2026-05-23
• Kavarchiyin Ucham 2026-05-03
• Same Poison, Different Bottle 2026-03-10
• Looks Matter, And That's Why We're Fucked 2025-12-01
• Sun Burn: The Visceral Decay of the PM Surya Ghar Scheme 2025-06-15
• India's prenatal sex determination ban: When legal intervention meets unintended harm 2025-01-04
• The Economics of the Ghost Calorie 2024-11-04
• The Great Indian Bamboozle: How We Perfected Stealing from the Poor to Give to the Rich 2024-09-05
• Headline Grief and the Ten Lakh Lottery 2024-07-15
• Are Our People Depoliticised? 2024-03-04
• Why Assholes Always Buy the Same Cars – An Unscientific Guide to Dodging Dudebros in India 2022-11-19
• No Tips Please 2022-09-05
• Are people really that dumb to eat whatever shit the media throws at them? 2021-12-19
• The Sleep of Reason: The Myth of Banal Evil 2021-06-27
• The Ten-Month Tax 2019-06-15
• The Tenant's Penalty 2017-07-18
• The Thermocol Experiment 2017-04-29
• The Art of Becoming a Ghost: Surveillance and the Indian Reality 2017-01-20
• The moral high ground of self-righteous cunts 2016-12-14
• Demonetisation: the prophecy and the bill we all will pay 2016-11-19
• The Respectable Butcher 2016-08-20
• The Lever We Won't Pull 2016-06-28
• The Teardown 2016-06-22
• The Epistocracy Trap 2016-06-13
• How to Buy a Democracy 2016-06-11
• The Fixed Match 2016-06-01
• The Empty Steering Wheel 2016-05-26
• The Black Box and the Paper Trail 2016-05-22
• The High Ground of Fools 2016-05-20
• What the fuck is NOTA? 2016-04-17
• The Granularity of Dogs 2016-03-21
• The Tyranny of the Whip 2015-07-15
• Call the cab! Tell them to join the Union!! 2015-07-07
• A Proportional Shield 2015-06-01
• The Rajya Sabha Backdoor 2015-05-29
• The Upper House Mirage 2015-05-22
• Taxation Without Representation 2015-05-15
• The Demographic Penalty 2015-05-01
• The Independent Candidate is a Myth 2015-03-15
• The STV Mirage 2015-03-07
• Enter the Cure: MMP 2015-03-05
• The Wasted Vote Epidemic 2015-02-27
• The Delhi Anomaly 2015-02-14
• The 31% Dictatorship 2015-02-01
• Hungry Water and The Straight Line Delusion 2011-08-22

#tech

• Complies With Our Ads Policies 2026-08-22
• Sovereign AI and the Procurement Trap 2026-08-14
• Quantum Superconductors and the LinkedIn Ad Broker 2026-08-13
• Protecting the Commons from the Machines 2026-07-25
• Open Weights and the Datacenter Land Grab 2026-07-02
• The Parasite Economy and the DPI Mirage 2026-06-30
• I Nuked My Homelab Because I Got Tired 2025-10-02
• The M-Dash Conspiracy: A Journey Into Synthetic Sadness 2023-05-23
• The fault in defaults 2018-06-28
• Is free software needed for communicating electronically? 2014-02-10

#technical

• The Infrastructure of Shadows: Why We Build Bridges in the Void 2017-01-15
• An Open Letter to BOSS Linux (and the Bureaucrats in Delhi) 2014-11-23
• Windows 8 maybe kinda Cool, but Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle) is Awesome 2013-01-29

#technology

• The E-Ink Monopoly and the Projector Hack 2025-09-08