Things worth writing down
Essays and field notes — the culture and heritage I come from, the systems I build, and whatever else is worth understanding properly. Researched, sourced, and written in the open.
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A Cloud of My Own
Most people rent the cloud. I built one in the corner of my room. On why I run a homelab — ownership, control, and learning how the internet actually works by hosting it yourself.
My Ancestors' Alphabet Just Became Code
Every letter is secretly a number. In 2024, about eighty numbers were quietly assigned to the letters my ancestors wrote and the world nearly forgot. How the endangered Tulu-Tigalari script got into Unicode — where heritage and engineering meet.
Nagara Panchami: The Forest We Never Cut
Almost every Tuluva family keeps a patch of forest it will never cut — the serpent's grove. A sourced, personal essay on Nagara Panchami and Nagaradhane in Tulu Nadu: the naga stones, the monsoon offerings, and a religion that made conservation sacred.
Aati: The Month With No Gods
Once a year the Tulu calendar goes silent — no weddings, no festivals, no gods. A sourced, personal essay on Tulu Nadu's "forbidden" monsoon month: its agrarian origins, the wild medicinal foods, Aati Kalenja, and the bitter pre-dawn medicine of Aati Amavasya.
My House Was Whispering to Strangers
Every device you own asks the internet thousands of quiet questions a day. A story about who had been answering mine — the evening I found out my ad-blocker was a scarecrow, and what taking back my own DNS really cost.
Tulunad Heritage: The Land of Daivas
A deep, sourced dive into Tulu Nadu — Bhuta Kola and the Daivas (Panjurli, Guliga, Koti-Chennaya), Nagaradhane serpent groves, the Aati monsoon rituals, Kambala, Yakshagana, and the endangered Tulu-Tigalari script. Written from Sullia, near Mangalore.
Why I'm writing this
A home for the things I want to understand properly and say in my own words — where I come from, what I build, and whatever else earns the effort. One rule: do it properly, with sources.