Mind & Machine
We Have Been Here Before
The technology is different. The drama is identical. We lived through this story before — we called it the personal computer.
Basava Purushottam
Policy Lab
How to Lie with Statistics, Chapter by Chapter — and How India's Own Data Proves Every Word
How to Lie with Statistics predicted exactly how data can mislead us — and seventy years on, India's own numbers prove every word of it.
Mind & Machine
The Dopamine of Artificial Intelligence: Why LLMs Are Making Us Hooked to Our Computers
Why does one AI prompt always lead to ten more? I explore the science of AI's strange pull — and how to stay in control. What's your longest AI rabbit hole?
Policy Lab
What Happens After Intelligence Is Enhanced? The Real Challenge After AI
After AI enhances decision-making at the top, the real bottleneck emerges below: execution. The next challenge is implementation intelligence. Smarter secretariats, same hands. Why the AI age will be won by institutions that redesign execution, not just adopt dashboards.
AI
Why India Needs Its Own Foundational AI Models: A Cost-Benefit Case for Public-Private Investment
India should build its own foundational AI models through public-private investment—keeping money, data, and intelligence at home rather than perpetually renting them abroad.
upsc
When "Never Give Up" Becomes a Trap
Quitting isn't failure when it's a decision. A clear-eyed framework for knowing when to continue an exam—and when to choose another door.
upsc
What Will the UPSC Prelims 2026 Cutoff Be? A Data Enthusiast's Best Guess
Coaching estimates range from 81 to 100. Twenty years of data, seven statistical models, and one defensible answer: 81.
Mind & Machine
The Illusion of Separation:When the Observer Becomes the Observed
Ancient Vedānta, quantum mechanics, and Krishnamurti converge on one truth: the observer and the observed are not separate things.
Policy Lab
The Calendar Everything Obeys
India's industrial production, charted across fourteen years, reveals a hidden rhythm: factories, government spending, and retail discounts all obey one calendar. Understand it, and you can time your biggest purchases wisely.
Mind & Machine
Mind Over Matter: How Early Psychology Anticipated the Neuroscience of Tomorrow
Discover how Alfred Adler’s early psychology and modern neuroscience converge on one powerful truth: you are not a prisoner of your past, but the proactive architect of your expected future.
Information theory
How Do You Preserve a Message Across Millennia?
Echoes of the Vedas in Everyday India A few months ago, I was walking through one of those busy market lanes in Rishikesh — the kind where incense smoke mixes with river air, and every third shop is selling something you did not know you needed. I was not looking for
Information theory
You Are Not Alone. You were Decoded
What Information Theory Reveals About the Loneliness of Men in Their Forties Today I came across a tweet from a man in his forties. His story felt familiar, almost as if I could have written it myself. "I am 42, senior IT job, house in Chennai, supportive wife, two