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Quoted in Decode with Adrija - Comedy And Content Creators: Who Are The Real Villains? February 19, 2025 quoted Technically not a quote. Adrija Bose linked to the piece I wrote for TOI in the 2025-02-19 edition of her Decode with Adrija newsletter: Comedy And Rent-free in my head music 3 February 17, 2025 micro & unvarnished & rent-free-music Image Source A short list of 5-6 songs that I’ve been listening to frequently the last few days, or, as they say, have been living rent-free in my Beerbiceps row shouldn’t become an excuse for state to flex its biceps February 16, 2025 publicwriting & blog This is an unedited, link-supported version of an opinion piece that appeared in The Times of India on 2025-02-16 (link). The page is archived Rent-free in my head music 2 February 10, 2025 micro & unvarnished & rent-free-music Image Source A short list of 5-6 songs that I’ve been listening to frequently the last few days, or, as they say, have been living rent-free in my Wanted: Small-tent progressive spaces February 8, 2025 micro I don’t follow the day-to-day of politics in India too closely — lots of motion/noise and not enough movement/signal. What is clear 1, though, is Rent-free in my head music 1 February 5, 2025 micro & unvarnished & rent-free-music Image Source A short list of 5-6 songs that I’ve been listening to a lot over the last few days, or, as they say, living rent-free in my head. In no Choose Love, Delhi February 5, 2025 micro Choose love Delhi (even on non-polling days), even, and especially, if our politicians don’t. Delhi is going to polls today. I’ve only followed the Anomie and retrieval February 5, 2025 blog & unvarnished Earlier today, I posted this on the microblogs (Twitter, Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon): I recently came across a word/definition that aptly described Thinker Feeler Hider Why January 31, 2025 micro & reflection & unvarnished Most of my life I’ve thought of myself as a thinker, or just a person who thinks (I am, indeed, an over thinker, but that’s different) as opposed to Main Character Energy 1 - Step back from that ledge, my friend January 31, 2025 main-character-energy & blog & reflection There is this incredible scene in Yes Man (2008), watch it before reading the rest of the post.👇 The premise of the movie is this - Carl (Jim Happy Republic Day - choose humanity January 26, 2025 micro Let’s channel our patriotism into loving everyone equally*. Happy Republic Day *ok, fine, you can love your family and friends more equally, but Why can’t workplaces care more about people? January 24, 2025 blog & rant & unvarnished There’s this conversation between Trevor Noah and Simon Sinek whose snippets kept popping up on my Instagram Reels for months. I had some time Quoted in Digital Data Protection Rules 2025: Here's What Needs To Change - Forbes India January 14, 2025 quoted Digital Data Protection Rules 2025: Here’s What Needs To Change - Forbes India archive Quoted in Why the draft personal data protection rules are contentious - Scroll.in January 13, 2025 quoted Why the draft personal data protection rules are contentious archive On Participatory ‘Unserious’ness January 13, 2025 micro & culture & blog Backlash and memes, but not enough introspection and interrogation Some of the memes around the L&T Chairman’s 90-hour work week / ‘wife staring’ More to Meta’s Content Moderation changes than meets the eye January 12, 2025 blog & publicwriting This is a link-supported, unedited draft of an opinion piece that appeared in TheSouthFirst on 2025-01-12. The page is archived here META recently Quoted in How the US TikTok Ban Would Actually Work - WIRED January 11, 2025 quoted How the US TikTok Ban Would Actually Work archive On the means of exploitation January 7, 2025 micro When people are exploited, should the response be to? Seize the means of exploitation? Cease the circumstances that create the conditions for Meta and the sensible articulation of challenges to justify a ‘great pandering’ January 7, 2025 blog tl;dr There are (whether we like them or not) some accurate/sensible things in Zuckerberg’s video/Kaplan’s post (e.g. the articulation of some of Quoted in Can you spot the dark pattern? Apps use subtle tricks to make us spend more - Times of India January 5, 2025 quoted Can you spot the dark pattern? Apps use subtle tricks to make us spend more - Times of India Because this one came with a photo 👇