life & ideas
6 min
Zomato Is Not a Food App Anymore
Most people think Zomato makes money from the ₹20 delivery fee on your biryani order. That's a rounding error.
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2026
engineering
7 min
Your Folder Structure Is Lying to You
The way most developers organize a full-stack project creates problems that don’t show up until it’s too late to fix them. The difference is rarely the technology. It’s the map.
life & ideas
4 min
The Flag We Never Really Look At
Every Independence Day, we hoist it, photograph it, and post it. Most of us have no idea how many times it almost looked completely different.
engineering
8 min
Most People Use Claude Like a Search Engine. That’s Why They’re Disappointed.
The difference between getting mediocre AI output and genuinely useful output isn’t the tool. It’s how you think about the conversation.
life & ideas
11 min
The Show That Taught India to Shout
19 seasons, 500 million viewers, and the quiet normalization of everything wrong with how we treat each other.
investing
7 min
Everything You Need to Know About the NSE IPO Before You Apply
Everyone has an opinion on the NSE IPO. Your broker says subscribe. Your WhatsApp group says it’s overpriced. The grey market says 12% listing gains. Here’s the full picture, so you can decide for yourself.
career
3 min
Shame Is the Tax You Pay for Staying Small
Most people never build anything because looking foolish felt worse than staying invisible. Being willing to look stupid while you learn is how you get good.
engineering
9 min
Shipping Got Easy — Keeping Systems Honest Got Hard
A few years ago, the bottleneck on most engineering teams was obvious: building the thing. That is less true now. Frameworks, platforms, templates, and AI coding tools made it dramatically cheaper to stand up a feature,…
engineering
8 min
The Hidden Tax Every Engineering Team Is Paying (And Doesn’t Talk About)
There’s a number almost no engineering org tracks: how many collective hours their developers spend staring at a build progress bar every week. Not writing code. Not designing systems. Not shipping features. Just… waitin…
2025
life & ideas
1 min
The Philosophy of “Cause and its Effect”
We are all born into different time zones, environments, and upbringings, but there is one thing that we are all taught in common: the philosophy of good and bad. But we are never taught the philosophy of cause and effec…
2023
career
7 min
Backend Engineer, Airtel: Interview Experience
An honest account of an interview that didn't end in an offer, and the things it taught me about hiring processes and communication.
career
8 min
CleverTap Internship Experience
From final-year student at KIIT to shipping code at CleverTap: what the internship was actually like, and how it turned into a full-time role.