Making tech ethical – a lost cause?
I quit Computer Science for good in 2014. Not for any ethical reasons. The college I was enrolled in to pursue my post-graduate degree made me ask some basic qu...
Category: Diary
Hello from Philadelphia
It has been two months since I arrived in Philadelphia, and I have wanted to resume regular blogging about my time here. Not to ‘create content’ or ...
The burden of humility
In the past two days, I have read two brilliant pieces of writing, Divya Malhari’s blog post on ‘A God of Small Things’ and Prof Suryakant Waghmore’s essay on H...
On a digital detox
I have been contemplating going on a digital detox and cutting down on my social media use off lately. I am compulsively glued to my phone, iPad, and Macbook, a...
Fake news is a theatrical problem
An entire community across the country was demonised based on doctored clips, fake news and hate speech. This is not new and people do not seem to get tired of ...
The perpetual Muslim angle to mob lynching
The discourse around the mob lynching in Palghar has been muddied right from blaming it on Muslims, calling it a Communist conspiracy to its degradation into an...
Jivi Sethi and an undelivered postcard
This is in May 2017. I was scheduled to travel to Lisbon for a conference. The invite came almost at the last moment and I had to organize my travel within two ...
Reading Pessoa
This is no critical take on Pessoa. I have not even read him exhaustively but I am increasingly falling in love with his writing so much that I want to expedite...
D.D. Kosambi Fellowship
I have been awarded the D.D. Kosambi Research Fellowship by the Directorate of Art and Culture, Government of Goa for the year 2016-2018. Under this fellowship,...