Yogi B, M.R. Radha, and the reclamation of spoken poetry.
Before your landlord sends the police or the HOA to your door, put it in writing under the 2017 Act.
Roo Code's shutdown and pivot to Roomote exposes the brutal reality of VC-backed open source AI agents.
A critical analysis of the structural failures in Indian election mechanics, from the futility of NOTA to the loopholes in media ownership and campaig…
A critique of the Rajya Sabha and state-level upper houses, examining the structural failure of bicameralism in India and proposing a shift toward pro…
A structural analysis of how demographic success is penalized in the Indian union, examining the fiscal and political implications of delimitation.
An analysis of the trade-offs between administrative centralization and political accountability, making the case for radical decentralization.
A critical analysis of the Anti-Defection Law and the 2016 FCRA amendment as case studies in the centralization of parliamentary power and legislative…
A comprehensive analysis of the First-Past-the-Post system's limitations and the structural case for Mixed-Member Proportional representation.
A case study in reducing infrastructure complexity and maintenance overhead while maintaining essential self-hosted services.
Introducing a 24/7 AI mediator for couples built on evidence-based therapy techniques.
The grid is a dying, humming god, and we're feeding it white solar masks to keep the middle class from screaming while the poor drown in the shadows.
A presentation exploring whether feet-forward motorcycles could work for Indian road conditions and business models.
Marp presentation exploring whether a KYC-verified, safe LGBT-friendly dating app would work in India.
India's 30-year-old ban on prenatal sex determination has spectacularly failed to prevent female feticide whilst potentially creating new harms - forc…
Childhood sweets, the 1974 sugar panic, and the corporate bio-engineering of the modern appetite.
We've perfected the art of fucking over poor people while telling them we're helping. It's beautiful, really. Like watching a pickpocket give a TED ta…
A note on unblocking robots, shedding the cipher, and SSG regrets.
An engineering analysis of using surface-level evaporative cooling to combat extreme thermal gain on terracotta roofs.
The weather broke, the calcium won, and the misting system gets dismantled.
Trying to build a high-pressure misting system out of RO pumps and agricultural scraps in the middle of nowhere.
Trying to survive 42 degrees in the arid belt with a mist pump and some porous terracotta.
For those who speak against the machine (the government, the corporations, the puppets in power), perfection is a myth. There is only risk reduction.
Running a Tor relay is not an act of heroism. It is the maintenance of a decaying structure in an indifferent universe.
Scraps of chicken, cold-blooded efficiency, and my grandmother's shallot eggs.
A tired reflection on burning old notebooks, an embarrassing high school crush, and the numbing reality of sharing a tiny room with eight people while…
Standing at Dairy Circle with an empty stomach and a bus ticket home.
Why national software initiatives fail under the weight of 256 kbps EDGE and bureaucratic isolation.
Reflections on switching from Microsoft's Metro UI experiment to GNOME 3 and automatic multiseat.
Reflections on recumbent motorcycles, ergonomics, and century-old design inertia.