2026
What the C2i sale reveals about the design flaw in PLI and DLI: activity is the instrument, capability is the hope, and no clause makes it a condition.
Nine areas of AI progress, the metrics that define each, and how much room is left in every one before physics or information theory says stop
A step-by-step explanation of tokens, embeddings, attention, generation and model memory—without assuming a machine-learning background
How workload shape—not just token count—determines the cost, speed and architecture of an AI product
A practical field guide to models, systems, uncertainty, and changing your mind
Why access to technology and platforms is not the same as control over them
Why markets, money, contracts, and even private life are never really outside politics
Why India's deepest project is not growth, but capability
How Global Income Flows Shape India’s Real Estate Economy
Why Some Societies Build History While Others Learn to Navigate It
2025
National prosperity is a subgroup coordination problem, and India has not solved it
Foreign governments stopped absorbing America's debt, and the bill is coming due
Why quotas redistribute status while leaving capability untouched
Why South Asian leaders still chase territory in a world where power flows from systems
Why indigenous innovation stays rare until failure stops being ruinous
Why scrapping the equalization levy matters less than India's dependence on foreign infrastructure
What Chaayos and Third Wave's numbers reveal about cafe economics in India
On family, roots, and why settling abroad is a multigenerational decision
2024
Is South India's language conflict really about language, or about who gets to belong?
Practical advice for Indian founders, borrowed from how China approached growth
What Idi Amin's expulsion of Uganda's Asians teaches about redistributing wealth
2021
Why numbers comfort us, where they mislead, and what they cannot measure
2020
Lessons from my first two years in the profession
Written at the start of the pandemic: the values that outlast the chaos
Why computing follows democracy's path: open participation, individual power, and a problem of trust
2019
How a product manager gathers evidence, builds a narrative, and learns to trust instinct
2017
Why what we need is not the absence of tension, but something worth striving for
2016
What does it mean for the rest of us?