Why I'm writing this
Not a feed of hot takes. A place for the few things each month that are actually worth the effort of getting right — and saying in my own words.
I've wanted a place to write for a long time. Not a stream of quick posts, but somewhere for longer, considered pieces on the things that genuinely occupy me — the kind of thing that usually stays half-formed in my head or buried in a notes app, and slowly disappears.
So this is that place. It isn't a single-topic blog, and I don't want it to be. Two parts of me show up here more than others.
Where I come from
I'm from Sullia, on the edge of Tulu Nadu — a stretch of the southwest Indian coast that is unbelievably dense with culture: spirits worshipped as neighbours, rituals that still settle real disputes, a language with its own endangered script, a whole world that risks being flattened into a single movie reference. A lot of what I want to write is about that — heritage, memory, the specific things that vanish quietly if nobody writes them down. The first real piece is exactly this: a deep, sourced look at Tulu Nadu's daivas, rituals and script.
What I build
The other half of my life is engineering — infrastructure, software, the unglamorous work of making systems reliable and then keeping them that way. I'll write about that too: things I've built, things that broke and what the real cause turned out to be, decisions that only make sense once you've lived with them.
And whatever else earns it
Books, ideas, arguments I'm having with myself, things I only half understand until I try to explain them. If it's worth thinking through properly, it can live here.
One rule
Across all of it: do it properly.
- If it's about culture or fact, I research it and cite sources — not vibes, not half-remembered assumptions.
- If it's technical, it's reproducible enough that you (or a future me) could actually follow it.
- If it's opinion, I'll say so plainly.
The good stuff — a ritual, a fix, a way of seeing — dies if no one writes it down. This is me writing it down, on time, and carefully.
New pieces go up when I have something worth your time, not on a schedule. If something here is wrong, or you know a subject better than I do, the contact links are open — corrections are the whole point of writing with sources.
Start with the Tulu Nadu piece. More to come.