Reflecting Contrarian on Caste This is going to sound extremely callous. You will feel I am making a case for ignorance, chauvinism, intellectual withering, the caste system, and all sorts of other ills that the Enlightenment so
Reflecting The Lie Hitler it was who said, in essence, that the larger the lie, the easier it is to sell. The largest lie told to us is of Western exceptionalism. Before I continue, I want
Hacking Can you hear me now? Get on a plane. Arrive in Mumbai or Bangalore or New Delhi or Cochin. Exit the contrived conveniences of the aircraft. Look around you. People. Thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people living
Hacking Deep Dive Of late, this blog and its sister publications on Medium have been feeling a little neglected. Where I used to try to write a long form post every day, my output had tapered
India Horse Trading is Art The spectacle of BJP scrambling to pull together a simple majority in Karnataka where the recent Assembly elections threw up a hung parliament had much of my Twitter feed up in arms. People
India I'm glad I flunked my driving test If you've lived in India for any length of time through the 90s and (probably) the early 2000s, you develop a sixth sense and start picking up subtle language which tells you that some palm-greasing is expected of you. Not this time...
India Wazzeer - a legal eagle in your corner Wazzeer normalizes the relationship between customers and legal and accounting professionals bringing transparency and consistency
India The new new Koh-i-Noors A few months ago, I wrote about the new Koh-i-Noors of India. These Koh-i-Noors were, to me, the fruit of the work done by stalwarts of the Indian IT industry who were able
India Go! Be an Extremist! This essay is a call for and a defense of extremism which gives people the chance to define themselves in opposition to that extremism. This extremism though has to be preceded by an end to the monopoly of violence that the Indian state enjoys.
cricket Raining Rupees The other day, I came across this post on Reddit which described an extract from Allan Border's memoirs. (From the above linked Reddit post) Understandably, the comments on the Reddit thread were scathing
India The Kathua and Unnao rapes started in your living room first The Kathua and Unnao rapes have their roots in television shows and the rape culture we unconsciously and unconscionably espouse
India Why are we like this only? We in India like to declare (with a certain bullheaded pride) that "We are like this only." No one ever questions 'Why "we are like this only"?' No
Marketing Streamlining Marketing In the spirit of "Sell before you make", I have been testing the market for a few startup ideas I have. If I were testing my ideas in more cohesive countries
India Changing Times If you, like me, have been single in the internet age, it's very likely that you would have come across the initialism DTR. DTR, unlike its more R-rated cousin DTF, stands for Define
India Thanks should be given Much like the Americas, the Indian subcontinent has had its share of colonial powers come and go. Alexander battled his way to India’s doorstep. Muslim sultans from Central Asia regularly laid waste
India Learners Lessons Given the lack of clarity and documentation around the process of applying for a learner's license in the state of Jharkhand, I thought I'd quickly summarize my experience for posterity. Before doing anything
Hacking Need for speed In India, if you ever get on the road to go from point A to point B, you will notice that, on average, we operate at speeds well under 40kmph (25mph). And this
India Mughalsarai There is so much history in place names. Take Mughalsarai [Wikipedia entry]. The name literally means the way stop of the Mughals. The city has long existed on the Grand Trunk Road which
India Bannon misread the tea leaves It was believed that Steve Bannon took the election of Narendra Modi in 2014 as Prime Minister of India as a grassroots endorsement of nationalist, anti-globalist politics. The next vindication of his beliefs
Hacking Keep your US number and call from it too (for free) Now that I have relocated to India having sold my car among other things, I was confronted with a new problem - many tools and products assume or prefer that their users are
India The new Koh-i-Noor Go to any India centric forum on the web. It will be rife with comments poking fun at the familiar giants of IT outsourcing. They joke about the shoddy quality of work produced