The journal
All dispatches
7 essays and notes, newest first.
- 01
Culture
A Field Guide to Block-Print Geometry
Ajrakh, ikat and bandhani: three Indian textile traditions, three ways of turning a simple rule into an endless surface.
- 02
Geopolitics
The Age of Multi-Alignment
Why middle powers increasingly refuse to pick a side — and why that might be the most stable thing about an unstable world.
- 03
Tech
How Every Ornament on This Site Is Drawn in Code
No image files, no icon fonts: a short tour of the yantra, the gilt frames and the emblems, and the few lines of geometry behind them.
- 04
Tech
Jugaad at Scale: What Public Digital Rails Teach Builders
Frugal ingenuity used to mean hacks. When it becomes shared infrastructure, it changes how an entire economy builds software.
- 05
Culture
Maximalism Is a Worldview
Notes on Indian colour, pattern and noise — and why "more is more" is a philosophy, not a decorating mistake.
- 06
- 07