When Women Rule, and When They Turn Against You→
An observation on Netflix’s Akka, power, gender and the rather complicated business of human nature.
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This website is an independent space to explore curiosity. It brings together five different pursuits: writing about the contradictions and curiosities of the world, investigating technology and intelligent systems, exploring cinema across languages and cultures, developing ideas through experiments and projects, and discovering what the road has to offer.
Each has its own character. Some writing is serious; some is irreverent. Some explorations begin with a technical question; others begin with a film, an observation, a journey or a problem that refuses to leave me alone.
What connects them is a desire to look closer, question assumptions and understand more than the surface reveals.
This is not a corporate publication or a finished account of what I know. It is a record of what I think about, what I explore and what I continue to learn.
Selected reads, ideas and perspectives worth spending time with.
Somewhere between telling a story and chopping someone into sixteen pieces, Indian cinema appears to have misplaced its purpose.
Some journeys are measured in kilometres. Others stay with you long after the engine is switched off.
"I realised that the way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person’s soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that...
With agentic AI tools and autonomous coding systems becoming mainstream, the Indian IT services model is under pressure. AI will not eliminate good engineers....
New additions to the journal, across years, ideas and experiences.
An observation on Netflix’s Akka, power, gender and the rather complicated business of human nature.
How two remarkable women taught me that some friendships don’t need labels or explanations.
Some people leave you an inheritance; my parents left me a conscience, a tenderness for life, and a reason to remain human in a world that often forgets how....
An ongoing exploration of Indian agriculture, public policy, economics and the possibilities of using AI to understand a system that affects millions of lives.
One person. Five distinct voices. One independent intellectual journal.
“A sarcastic, convivial, factualistic blog marked by melodramatic intrigue and hugger-mugger.”
Essays, arguments, observations and the occasional inconvenient question. A place for examining the absurdities and curious workings of the world.
“Beyond the hype. Into the architecture.”
Understanding underlying systems, examining architectural choices, and distinguishing what works in practice from what merely sounds promising.
“Beyond the story. Into the cinema.”
Exploring cinema across Telugu, Hindi, and Hollywood films—focusing on the craft, performances, storytelling, and ideas that stay with us.
“Ideas in motion. Systems under exploration.”
A working space for experiments, prototypes, and emerging concepts. Where process and learning take precedence over finished polish.
“Some journeys are about getting there. Others are about being on the road.”
Stories and reflections from two wheels—motorcycle rides, journeys, machines, and places that remind me not everything worth discovering is found behind a screen.
I am a technologist, systems architect, and student of human behaviour. This independent publication serves as the permanent home for my long-form thinking, technical explorations, cinema critique, and road journals.
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