Essays about the modern human condition
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One overlooked signal at a time
We’ve perfected the art of clean exits. From emails, people, and even ideas. But when leaving becomes this easy, how do we know what’s still worth staying for?
Caught between Bharat, India, and the world, a new generation is navigating competing codes of belonging and progress. But what if fractured reference points could be a capability, not a crisis?
Popular culture is championing languages. But what do we lose when we only read instantly translated content, be it subtitles or on Google Translate? Is learning languages as obsolete as they say? Or does it allow us to perceive reality differently?
We have outsourced friction in pursuit of perfectly scheduled lives. But when software begins to manage our most human connections, we need to ask ourselves: What are we losing in the process?
We name things to feel in control. Quickly. Trends, behaviours, and even ourselves. But when everything demands a label, are we just taking shortcuts, allowing these labels to settle far deeper than we realise?