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social-justiceWhat Ambedkar Actually SaidThe gap between what people quote and what he actually wroteApril 24, 2026·28 min read
reflectionDon't Tell Me What I Can't DoOn John Locke, faith, and the cost of needing to matterApril 23, 2026·10 min read
technologyThe Numbers Every Architect Should KnowLatency, availability, cloud economics, AI inference — the reference card you wish you'd carried into every design reviewApril 19, 2026·30 min read
reflectionThe ConstantOn Desmond, Penny, and the voice that holds you across timeApril 18, 2026·10 min read
dravidamWhy the Lotus Never Blooms in Tamil NaduOn Hindutva's oldest defeat, and the soil that refuses the flowerApril 18, 2026·37 min read
dravidamWhat They Want to TakeOn the Delimitation Bill, and what India owes the states that kept their promiseApril 17, 2026·37 min read
reflectionMan of Science, Man of FaithOn Jack, Locke, and the lie of certaintyApril 15, 2026·11 min read
investingThe House You Can't SellOn the first house you buy to settle, and the second house that settles on youApril 15, 2026·26 min read
reflectionLive Together, Die AloneOn Jack's beach, and the family we were never supposed to haveApril 14, 2026·10 min read
social-justiceThe Right to EatHow one Indian state turned food from a caste weapon into a universal right — while the world's largest food producer lets 194 million go hungryApril 12, 2026·16 min read
investingThe Insurance LieYour insurance policy is not an investment. Here's the math they don't show you.April 11, 2026·16 min read
technologyThe Subsystems That HoldLoad balancers, CDN edge caching, and the monitoring setup that tells you the next bottleneck is comingApril 11, 2026·20 min read
dravidamThe Voter's FlowchartWhat matters to you? What each party actually offers. A decision framework for Tamil Nadu 2026.April 10, 2026·6 min read
dravidamThe Manifestos, Re-ScoredA party-agnostic framework, 43 parameters, 4 scoring axes — what the State Capability Index reveals about DMK vs ADMK 2026April 6, 2026·60 min read
dravidamThe Manifestos, ScoredDMK vs ADMK — 50 dimensions, 500 points, one clear verdict from Tamil Nadu's 2026 election manifestosApril 1, 2026·3 min read
social-justiceYou Are What They Let You EatOn beef, caste, and the violence hidden inside a food ruleMarch 29, 2026·24 min read
technologyThe Numbers Behind the ArchitectureFrom 50 requests per second to 500,000 — every stage of the scaling journey, with the actual configs, queries, and decisionsMarch 26, 2026·32 min read
technologyArchitecture That ShipsMVP thinking, delivery discipline, and designing for the age of AIMarch 24, 2026·19 min read
technologyWhen Everything BreaksRedundancy, fault tolerance, and the discipline of assuming your own system will failMarch 23, 2026·23 min read
technologyThe Architecture Nobody NoticesScaling, performance, and the decisions that disappear when they workMarch 22, 2026·20 min read
reflectionThere and Back AgainOn Gollum, Mount Doom, and the grace that finishes what we can'tMarch 21, 2026·16 min read
dravidamThe Reasons RemainTamil Nadu sends a rupee to Delhi and gets 22 paise back. The demand for Dravida Nadu was shelved. The grievances were not.March 18, 2026·31 min read
technologyThe Code You Don't ShipOn tests, trust, and the strange discipline of writing code that exists only to protect other codeMarch 16, 2026·12 min read
reflectionThe King Who Didn't Claim the CrownOn Aragorn, Arwen, and reluctant purposeMarch 15, 2026·11 min read
investingWhen Markets Crash — Part 2: The Survival PlaybookBuilding a portfolio that survives what your emotions can'tMarch 15, 2026·15 min read
social-justiceThe Pen That BurnedOn Ambedkar the writer — the words they couldn't uninvite, unprint, or un-readMarch 14, 2026·22 min read
investingWhen Markets CrashYour brain is the problem. History is the proof. Time is the answer.March 13, 2026·11 min read
reflectionThe Company You KeepOn Sam, Boromir, and the ones who walk with youMarch 8, 2026·11 min read
technologyEnterprise Product Is a Different SportWhen your user isn't your buyer, your roadmap isn't your strategy, and your demo doesn't close the dealMarch 6, 2026·15 min read
reflectionThe Weight of the RingOn Frodo, Gandalf, and the burdens we inheritMarch 6, 2026·9 min read
dravidamThe Dravidian Model, TestedFive years of MK Stalin's government — what the numbers say, what the people got, and what it costMarch 1, 2026·47 min read
technologyProduct Thinking for EngineersWhy the best engineers think like product managers — and why most product managers think like project managersFebruary 27, 2026·19 min read
dravidamThe Unfinished RevolutionCaste still kills in Tamil Nadu. And no government can fix it alone.February 24, 2026·50 min read
technologySystems That LastThe architecture decisions that matter in five years are the ones nobody writes blog posts aboutFebruary 22, 2026·28 min read
dravidamThe Numbers Don't LieEducation, economy, health — what a century of social justice actually looks like in dataFebruary 22, 2026·28 min read
dravidamThe Architects of DignityHow a hundred-year-old movement rewired an entire stateFebruary 21, 2026·32 min read
technologyAI Agents in Production: What Actually ShipsThe gap between a compelling demo and a reliable production system is where most agent projects go to dieFebruary 19, 2026·19 min read
social-justiceMerit Is TyrannyHow India's exam system protects privilege, punishes poverty, and calls it fairnessFebruary 17, 2026·18 min read
social-justiceThe Women Who Built the MovementSavitribai Phule, Fatima Sheikh, and the lives history didn't carry forwardFebruary 16, 2026·13 min read
investingYour First CroreThe math, the mindset, and why the first one is always the hardestFebruary 14, 2026·13 min read
technologyThe Ground Is ShiftingWhat AI's acceleration means for engineers, managers, and everyone who works on a screenFebruary 13, 2026·11 min read
technologyAI and Platform EngineeringA practical guide to where AI fits — and where it doesn't — in building developer platformsFebruary 11, 2026·17 min read
investingEquity Mutual Funds — Part 4: Building Your PortfolioFrom one fund to a clean, complete portfolioFebruary 11, 2026·10 min read
reflectionThe Magic We Already Have — Part 3: The Light We CarryOn Snape, Neville, and the walk into the forestFebruary 11, 2026·8 min read
investingEquity Mutual Funds — Part 3: Understanding RiskRisk shows up in your heartbeat when markets fall, not on a questionnaireFebruary 8, 2026·11 min read
reflectionThe Magic We Already Have — Part 2: The People Who StayOn Patronuses, parents, and the ones who protect usFebruary 8, 2026·8 min read
technologyCoding With AI: What Actually WorksA practical guide to the workflows, habits, and mindset that make AI your best pair programmerFebruary 7, 2026·8 min read
reflectionThe Magic We Already HaveOn Harry Potter, and the ordinary spells that save usFebruary 7, 2026·6 min read
reflectionAhead of the CurveOn the Joker, and why his words sting more than his knivesFebruary 4, 2026·5 min read
technologyA Practical Guide to OCR in PythonExtract text from images and PDFs using Tesseract, with preprocessing techniques that actually matterJanuary 28, 2026·10 min read
reflectionThe Hero No One Needs Right NowOn The Dark Knight, and the people who fix things no one seesJanuary 23, 2026·3 min read
dravidamParasakthi and the Martyrs of TamilWhen a language movement became a matter of life, death, and fireJanuary 21, 2026·12 min read
social-justiceFellow UntouchablesWhat Martin Luther King, Ambedkar, and Periyar understood about the same struggleJanuary 19, 2026·9 min read
investingBasics of InvestingA simple, no-nonsense guide to building wealthJanuary 18, 2026·11 min read
technologyBuilding Resilient Engineering TeamsWhat 22 years in tech taught me about the teams that survive—and the ones that don'tJanuary 18, 2026·8 min read
investingEquity Mutual Funds — Part 1: The BasicsUnderstanding the foundation of wealth creationJanuary 18, 2026·10 min read
investingEquity Mutual Funds — Part 2: Your First FundStart simple, not cleverJanuary 18, 2026·11 min read
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technologyThe Practices That Separate Good Developers from Great OnesWhat I learned from studying engineering cultures at Google, Netflix, Amazon, Stripe, and others—and why most teams never adopt these habitsJanuary 18, 2026·20 min read
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