Writing and musings.
Essays, reflections, arguments, fragments, and observations across technology, AI, culture, politics, poetry, management, and the soul’s less organized archives.
Culture in the age of AI: The Illusion of Revival
The question is not whether AI can preserve culture. Of course it can. Machines can remember our art, our songs, …
Read more →When Existing Is Enough : Ud Jayega Hans Akela, Jag Darshan ka Hai Mela
And it is in this “slowing down” that life presents its most wonderful gift — a permission to exist without …
Read more →2025: A year of Compression, Not Expansion
For me, 2025 was not about adding ideas but about enforcing pragmatic compression.
Read more →The 7 Structural Shifts of AI in the Services Industry
The goal cannot be to automate people out of relevance. The future we are entering is not ????????????????-????????????????????. It is …
Read more →Sovereign AI - The Antidote to Digital Colonization
Think what one Macaulay did and then imagine a million working simultaneously. Sovereign AI ensures that a nation's stories, education …
Read more →The Family Man – Things Fall Apart, the Center Cannot Hold
Maybe the tragedy is not that Shrikant Tiwari is perhaps dead. Maybe the tragedy is that his death reveals what …
Read more →The Story, the Soul, and the Sacred Unseen
A timeless Indian tale reveals how longing, discipline, and detachment lead to spiritual transformation. Reflections on the story's deep parallels …
Read more →The Gita, AI, and the Future of Human Purpose
When the engines of modern world relief us from some necessities they do not remove our vocation. They only clear …
Read more →Requiem for the City of my Dreams
In that gap between expectation and reality lies the loneliness, the exile, and the quiet grief of knowing that the …
Read more →The Performance of Connection: What LinkedIn Reveals About Professional Networks
What's the most valuable professional relationship you've built? Was it through LinkedIn—or despite it? Yesterday, I deleted over a hundred …
Read more →When the Cloud Comes Home: Reflections from the Other Side of the Hype Cycle
The real lesson is realizing that the answers we seek may lie behind us, around us, or in the rhythms …
Read more →Purpose is evident in hindsight
Think about it: how do you know that the turn you missed was a bad one and the one that …
Read more →पापा की पुरानी कविताए
तारिका एक टूटी गगन-डाल से, चाँद ने आँख भर यों कहा-"बावली, मैं तड़पता रहूँगा यहाँ रात भर, तू भटकती फिरेगी …
Read more →Complexity Science and the Art of Organizational Management
Organizations are complex systems, akin to biological and social systems, where unpredictability and surprises are inherent. This complexity necessitates a …
Read more →Living in Simulacra: Navigating the New Reality
In an age dominated by media, digital facades, and hyper-curated realities, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish what’s real from …
Read more →The Future is Artificial Intelligence, and it is Complex.
Many people are discussing Al these days, portraying it as a mysterious, cutting-edge technology that is rapidly taking over the …
Read more →The Kowloon Walled City: A Complexity Science Perspective
As I dive deeper into my exploration of complexity science, I couldn’t help but draw fascinating parallels between this field …
Read more →The Positive Power of Negative Thinking
I’m only happy when it rains. I’m only happy when it’s complicated. And though I know you can’t appreciate it. …
Read more →How an Interplanetary Feedback System Saved Earth: The Dynamic Dance of Jupiter and Saturn
So much importance is associated with Jupiter and Saturn that in ancient Vedic astrology, the position of these two in …
Read more →They are not Myths, They are Science
In any era, in any age, without the enablement of technology, the only way to transmit information or knowledge is …
Read more →The Beauty of the Periodic Table
All that we see in the universe in its vastness and complexity is due to chemistry. The subject that often …
Read more →Building Accountability in Organizations
I have advised organizations that accountability is not just about making and keeping commitments — it is also about transparency. …
Read more →The Octopus’ Eyes & The Repetition of Intelligence
Is nature really selective or has it created a backup for humans?
Read more →The Games that Evolution Plays
Remember, natural selection is a single-minded, methodical, and cold mechanism only devoted to the propagation of the species.
Read more →The Indian Renaissance Social Enterprise
Traditionally, best practices are defined in the context of the western school of thought. Our India-Oriented bodies' objective should be …
Read more →The Physics behind the Futility of Life
The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics says that the entropy of an isolated system increases over time. Which, in plain English, …
Read more →Principles & Ideals in Summer
Adolescence is an impressionable age. I was in my early teens in the summer of 1990. It was the year …
Read more →Philosophy in The Age of Augmentation
Christensen's theory of disruptive innovation describes disruption as the transformation of business models and value networks by technology or business …
Read more →Lessons from Sweden
Thousands of years ago, some wise guy noted in the Holy Veda that Ati sarvatra varjayet: Excess of anything is …
Read more →The Subtlety of Nationalism
“The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict” [Explanation at …
Read more →Essays on Life - Part 6: On Writing (and failing at it)
What is the true genesis of an idea? Are one's ideas always one's own, or are they derivatives of another's …
Read more →Essays on Life - Part 5: On Notion of Purpose
Draupadi realized and surrendered herself to the sacrificial fires of a holocaust, of which Krishna himself was the presiding deity. …
Read more →Essays on Life - Part 4: On Progress not perfection
Progress is not bad. It is not evil. It serves as a mechanism that organizes life and ensures the journeyman …
Read more →Essays on Life - Part 3: On Polarities, or of thinking of the messy middle as a place of comfort
I have constantly prided myself on my extremely erratic nature and spontaneity. I was drawn to the idea of "living …
Read more →Essays on Life - Part 2: On Role Models (wise, witty, and irreverent grown-up in my life)
If one's role model remains the same for a long, then one is incarcerated in constructs of the past, and …
Read more →Essays on Life - Part 1: Thinking about people while taking a shower.
I think of you often, and sometimes even in the shower. Bathrooms are perhaps the last remaining corners of our …
Read more →The futility of LinkedIn – Or is it just me?
Till about a couple of years ago, LinkedIn profiles with 500+ connections impressed me immensely. With that humongous network/reach at …
Read more →Some old emails, some forgotten notes.
I have been looking at my old emails, and I see the date stamp on them. I can visualize how …
Read more →Java Threads & Voyager Spacecrafts
Sometimes you know things happen—people move on or get separated—but life has its chords running. Just like threads in a …
Read more →Perpetual Prozac
Sometimes pain can take you to the edge of numbness, which is a good feeling by itself. You know the …
Read more →Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head…
Love is a convoluted and illogical concept, in the sense that it is conceivable for two people to form a …
Read more →जो लहर आएगी, कुछ देकर ही जाएगी
प्रकृति के नियम को निर्विवाद निभाएगी, जो लहर आएगी, कुछ देकर ही जाएगी
Read more →Such joys of the corporate environment
These are also the class of human beings who are perhaps the biggest bottlenecks in the knowledge-work process, as they …
Read more →Learn to Live with Reality
Learn to live with reality; otherwise one day, reality will come and live with you. This is the opening line …
Read more →एक ऐसी जगह पर जाता है मन, जो दूर नहीं पर पास भी ना हो
एक ऐसी जगह पर जाता है मन जो दूर नहीं पर पास भी ना हो
Read more →चींटियों सा कभी रेंगता है, तो कभी लेहरेता दरिया सा चला जाता है
My parting wishes to a dear friend.
Read more →Being a Part of Any Change
Angels exist. I saw them in action. They wear pants, shirts, salwars, jeans, sneakers, and T-shirts. They are of both …
Read more →My Way
I am not a star. There is no halo around my head. Fate does not like the color of my …
Read more →Hope
Melancholy, unhappiness, and sorrow; will fly by in the face of tomorrow, Gone will be the winter of gloom and …
Read more →Prayer…
One of the most profound yet simple ode to God that I have come across…
Read more →The Importance of being an Indian Communist
Right at the onset let me say that I have great respect for Bengalis and this article is in no …
Read more →What The Agile Manifesto Teaches Us About Life?
So I hear these two different versions about how to live your; one side passionately talks about finding yourself, through …
Read more →The Five Estates of Technology
The five estates of technology will probably continue to exist in tomorrow’s world. In the present, they are demarcated chronologically, …
Read more →तेरी दुनिया से उठ गई खुदाई है, सब आया बस कयामत ही नहीं आई है
तेरी दुनिया से उठ गई खुदाई है, सब आया बस कयामत ही नहीं आई है जहां से चलेथे वहीं आज …
Read more →Sania Mirza & the Indian Tri-color
A local court in Bhopal issued summons to tennis star Sania Mirza for allegedly disrespecting the national flag during a …
Read more →Indian IT Industry & The dumbing down of an Indian!!
The English colonizers used the Indian lands under their control to grow indigo, which was an important component in the …
Read more →In Incomplete Poem
Once I was thinking about the twist and turns of life, and some thoughts came into my mind. This is …
Read more →Journalism at its Worst
I read this article at NDTV.com, I am absolutely incensed with the comments made by the author and I am …
Read more →Unsolicited Calls – The Other Side of the Story
There has been enough ranting on the phenomena of unsolicited calls, I guess nowadays it is mostly a vogue to …
Read more →Death of a Nation-State – Elegy for Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh chief minister and head of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Mayawati sent her private jet to pick up …
Read more →Pride & Prejudice: My way of Eating is better than yours
Traditions and customs are sacred and profound for humans. Whether we like it or not, we invariably live under the …
Read more →That’s what Love is!
That I know you, is not enough And, that you know me is also not the end But, that we …
Read more →High Rise Grave
Far above the ground, a high rise’s lonely balcony he sits On the top but all alone
Read more →The River Flowed Silently
Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust; Dear, look into my eyes, and you’ll know whom to trust. If love …
Read more →Life – My Definition
I wonder today what life could be. It could be a pack of cards with aces all for me. It …
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