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It was a Wednesday evening, somewhere on Outer Ring Road, and my Ola hadn’t moved in seventeen minutes. The driver had given up on conversation. The AC was working at maybe forty percent capacity. Behind us, a BMTC bus was attempting a lane change that violated several laws of physics. I had Charles Bukowski’s collected…
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I was sitting on my balcony the other evening, watching a sunset that had no business being that perfect. Purples bleeding into oranges, the kind of sky that makes you forget your phone for a minute. And then, like it always does, it faded. The colors dulled. The streetlights took over. Show’s over. And I…
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There is an old joke in software engineering. It goes: there are only two hard problems in computer science. Naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors. You laugh. Then you sit with it for a second. The one I want to talk about is the middle one. Cache invalidation. It is a problem so fundamental,…
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A few weeks ago I read a LinkedIn post by someone I vaguely know. It was lovely. The kind of writing that makes you sit up a little. Sentences that turned at the right places. A metaphor that did some real work. I read it twice, which is rare for that platform. Then I scrolled…
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There is a particular kind of vertigo that arrives when you hear your own voice in a recording. For half a second, you do not recognise it. The mouth that has been speaking your sentences for decades suddenly belongs to a stranger. You think, surely that is not how I sound. But it is. Everyone…
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I have been thinking about AI a lot lately. Not in the way most people seem to, where it is either the greatest invention since fire or the beginning of the end. My thoughts are messier than that, more tangled, and I suspect more honest because of it. Let me start with the question everyone…
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During my early college days, I happened to stumble across the great poet Ramdhari Singh, known by his pen name Dinkar. What intrigued my interest was the epic named Rashmirathi (roughly translates to rider of the chariot of light) written by him. I had goosebumps when I listened to one of the poems in Chapter…
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We’ve all heard the phrase “ignorance is bliss.” It’s a cliché, sure, but like most clichés, it persists because there’s a kernel of truth to it. As someone who’s spent far too many nights poring over dense philosophy texts and arguing about the nature of consciousness until 3 AM, I can’t help but wonder: Are…
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Let’s cut the crap. Those fluffy bucket lists full of skydiving and learning French? They’re bullshit. Here are 40 things you actually need to do before 40 if you don’t want to wake up one day wondering where your life went. Remember, time’s ticking. You’ve got shit to do. Get to it.
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An average day. I log in to Twitter and there’s it, again. The decade old debacle on topic of reservation of jobs for local people. This time it channeled a series of hateful threads against the migrants and how they have disrupted the culture of the city. I get the anguish (no matter how politically…
Living life between backspaces.
