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A personal journal of long-form essays and notes — on the long game of nations, the machines rewiring our lives, and the cultures we live inside.
Cover story · Culture
A Field Guide to Block-Print Geometry
Ajrakh, ikat and bandhani: three Indian textile traditions, three ways of turning a simple rule into an endless surface.
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Latest dispatches
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Geopolitics
The Age of Multi-Alignment
Why middle powers increasingly refuse to pick a side — and why that might be the most stable thing about an unstable world.
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Tech
How Every Ornament on This Site Is Drawn in Code
No image files, no icon fonts: a short tour of the yantra, the jaali screens and the emblems, and the few lines of geometry behind them.
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Tech
Jugaad at Scale: What Public Digital Rails Teach Builders
Frugal ingenuity used to mean hacks. When it becomes shared infrastructure, it changes how an entire economy builds software.
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Culture
Maximalism Is a Worldview
Notes on Indian colour, pattern and noise — and why "more is more" is a philosophy, not a decorating mistake.
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“Let noble thoughts come to us from every direction.”
Rig Veda · 1.89.1