Writing
- Essay2026 · 0910 min read
Tech Companies as New-Age Zamindars: Public Rails, AI Agency, and Governance
How open infrastructure, AI agency, and reality interpretation prevent digital platforms from becoming private estates.
- Essay2026 · 0917 min read
From Spatial Dashboards to Municipal Execution: What Smart Cities Become in the Agentic Era
Decades into the smart city experiment, AI is shifting urban technology from watching reality to participating in it.
- Essay2026 · 0917 min read
The Advertising Machine Is About to Learn How You Choose
Multimodal AI moves advertising from demographic probability to probabilistic models of individual judgment and context-dependent choice.
- Essay2026 · 0815 min read
From Calculation to Intention: What Remains Scarce When Intelligence Is Free
When execution and intelligence become abundant, the human boundary moves from generating answers to deciding which futures are worth choosing.
- Essay2026 · 088 min read
Where to Put the Meter
When raw intelligence becomes cheap, value migrates from software seats and labor hours to the delegation of trusted work.
- Essay2026 · 0810 min read
The World Is Not a Table
Why digital twins in India are about spatial resolution and physical decisions, not 3D dashboards
- Essay2026 · 087 min read
After Spec-to-Prod: The Legibility Problem in GovTech
Beyond adaptable software lies the harder challenge: building a continuously maintained state of reality that governments can actually reason over.
- Essay2026 · 088 min read
The Knowledge Shock: Why India Needs Cheap Intelligence
As software costs collapse, India’s next macroeconomic advantage depends on turning metered inference into productive capital.
- Essay2026 · 087 min read
From Writing to Authorship: What AI Changes About Thinking
When machines can write almost anything, the scarce asset is knowing what you actually mean.
- Essay2026 · 085 min read
Beyond the Bounding Box
Reality capture is no longer the bottleneck. VLMs convert physical space into natural language, turning camera feeds into queryable world models.
- Essay2026 · 087 min read
Ways of Seeing, Ways of Naming
John Berger, Wittgenstein, and the vision-language state.
- Essay2026 · 086 min read
The Decision as Software
When the unit of government software stops being the dashboard and starts being the decision.
- Essay2026 · 088 min read
India’s AI Problem Is a Data Problem
Before AI can predict or automate, it has to answer deceptively basic questions about where things are and what they correspond to.
- Essay2026 · 084 min read
Models Are Not Applications
What looks like enterprise AI pessimism is a strategic narrative war over market architecture and value capture.
- Essay2026 · 085 min read
The Language Games of Law
LLMs conquered the textual surface of legal practice. The institutional context remains an unsolved system-design problem.
- Essay2026 · 086 min read
From Apps to Ontologies
AI makes government software easy to build but hard to buy—shifting the real moat from generated dashboards to ground-truth civic semantics.
- Essay2026 · 0726 min read
Building Without Blocks
Deep tech, government, and the decade India built its own substrate