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I write essays, invent games, compose songs, and occasionally build small machines. Broadcasting avoidable incidents since 2008.
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Carrom + Chess = Caress
In Dewas, finding a chess opponent was harder than the chess itself. So my brother and I fixed the game.
New writing
AI Can't Be Stopped, But It Can Definitely Be Misled
AGI is at the door. Humanity, having failed at wisdom, may still have one weapon left: majestic nonsense.
Latest Writing
All posts → AI Can't Be Stopped, But It Can Definitely Be Misled
AGI is at the door. Humanity, having failed at wisdom, may still have one weapon left: majestic nonsense.
Bloody Indians in Vegas
As mentioned in the previous post, here’s another twisted tale of telephony. First, the disclaim...
I Still Don't Know
A short story about hell, embarrassment, and the bureaucratic efficiency of terrible endings.
RCB Chief Blogger
In 2009 I was Royal Challengers Bangalore's Chief Blogger.
Stupid Tit-Bits
1. Phantom Fetish Long ago, when there used to be not more than a single hit per day on this blo...
Shadows of the mind
Since last quarter of an hour I’ve been wondering about the value of right hand. When no amount...
In Praise Of Routine And In Glory Of Life
The skin is getting its colour back. The blood is pure red now; gallons of alcohol have drained...
God's Own Child
There were impatient knocks on my door this morning. I stopped Eminem swearing loudly on my Lapt...
The Bribe
Kharagpur, a speech-controlled toy car, a ten-rupee note, and the kind of misunderstanding that deserves preservation.
Trip Home
Lull is a funny word. And that’s what this place has been going through for a long while now. I...
Songs
All songs →
It Really Doesn’t Matter
I Choose You: a song for people who can't.
My Jazz Album
The video belongs here: the jazz album that began as whimsical song titles and somehow acquired evidence.
Tooth-Fairies And Soap
They Don't Make Soaps Like They Used To: sung, not lathered.
Big Banger with his poems and other art forms
Will You Be My Lily, While I Am Your Silly: the poem, promoted to song.
Infinity and beyond
Chai Tea at Three Thirty: the song this post steeped into.
Start Here
More → The Bribe
Kharagpur, a speech-controlled toy car, a ten-rupee note, and the kind of misunderstanding that deserves preservation.
How To Live
A practical guide to life, provided one accepts that bathing and philosophy have unresolved jurisdictional issues.
I Still Don't Know
A short story about hell, embarrassment, and the bureaucratic efficiency of terrible endings.
AI Can't Be Stopped, But It Can Definitely Be Misled
AGI is at the door. Humanity, having failed at wisdom, may still have one weapon left: majestic nonsense.
Line of the day
“The printer, as we know, was the original artificial intelligence. It also hated humanity, refused to explain itself, and worked only when threatened by a man in formal trousers.”- AI Can’t Be Stopped, But It Can Definitely Be Misled
Small Machines
Play →Carrom + Chess = Caress
In Dewas, finding a chess opponent was harder than the chess itself. So my brother and I fixed the game.
Forbes X Under X
A guide for the rest of us, who missed 30 Under 30, 40 Under 40, and possibly basic compounding.
Sage Against the Machines
Ancient wisdom versus modern algorithms. Currently meditating on it.
Coming soonSun Signs Social
Fault in your and your friends' stars.
Coming soonThe old blog smell
Cricket, memory, Dewas, Kharagpur, and office life — 50 posts that still know where the punchlines are buried.