The Kafkaesque drama around getting a gas connection in Bangalore made me appreciate this adage — Moving to Bangalore from Mumbai has been mostly smooth sailing except in one area. Getting an LPG gas connection. A bit of background In Mumbai, we use piped gas delivered straight to the home. Piped gas requires a slightly modified nozzle than the standard stove. We brought that stove to Bangalore expecting to use…

Guy de Maupassant’s story, reimagined. — She could feel her phone vibrating in her back pocket as she ran-walked to class, late by a few minutes, again. Curious student eyes burned a hole in her back. 7:30 AM lectures were her Kryptonite. The 3-year old, still in bed, finger jammed firmly inside his mouth, her Superman. …

This article by Guidance Talent says that the best candidates remain on the job market for 10 days. The best candidates are off the market in 10 days. Imagine that! If you are good at your job, you could quit your job today with no offers in hand and land…

You don’t know what you got ’til it’s gone — Wait, you didn’t know? Sorry about the spoiler, dude. It’s all over the news. But how are you reading this article? I didn’t know you got internet under that rock. Ok, yes, the bird is dead. Musk is flipping the bird to brand value and the million different things that…

Bollywood dials up the adage of “people remember how you make them feel” to 11. Here is why. — Rich, colorful sets. Songs. Massive promotional hoardings which need scaffolding just to stay in place. Tears. Laughter. Anger. Climax. A fifteen minute intermission to let you catch your breath! In a world of roughly 8.5 billion people, ~7 billion don’t understand it, like, at all. To us ~1.5 …

I used to suck at Quordle. So sucky that I’d often found myself having to pick the fourth word out of two, on occasion three 😬, viable options. They say leaderboards and gamification make the world go round. While Quordle doesn’t have a Leaderboard, my high school WhatsApp group had…

Three UI/UX choices that will make you nod your head at their sheer brilliance. Form truly becomes function. — India is a developing country with a dozens of different languages, starkly different education levels, and life skills. It is not called a sub-continent without reason. To enable lossless communication with 1.4 billion people, most of whom don’t share a language in common, policy makers need strategies which, in a…

I am about five years late to its party but man, what a party Mirzapur threw! — (This essay might have spoilers but come on, the show came out years ago) Mirzapur premiered on Amazon Prime Video in 2018. I vaguely remember seeing Pankaj Tripathi glaring sinisterly from posters promoting the show. …

Supabase did so much heavy lifting that all I needed was a half decent frontend developer ❤️ — Introduction ChatGPT is great but a lot of enterprises are wary of leaking confidential data or customer PII to OpenAI which plainly says that it reserves the right to use data shared with ChatGPT to further train and refine its models. It is in this context that we are building an…