Wishing you a Happy New Year! I got a lot of recommendations and book gifts (mentioned below in the Reading section).
Reading
- The Great Indian Retreat – Reading this is a more tangible form of saying what the Indus Valley Report reports in terms of India and Bharat and the disintermediation happening between them. There are also people like me who seem to be on the faultline moving between them not fully of one or the other.
- Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks – I’m listening to this on Audible. I’m 79% through this book.
- The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron – I’m doing the exercise given in The Artist’s Way along with a group of people who are in the Clear Writing Community. I’m 12% through this book.
- On the Banks of Mayyazhi by M Mukundan, Translated by Gita Krishnakutty – I’m reading this as a part of The Purple Pencil Project Book Club.
- The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF – This book was gifted to me by Diljeet Singh Narwal of Pineapple Elaichi Book Club as a Secret Santa gift for me even though I couldn’t participate in their Secret Santa. Thank you, Diljeet and PEBC!
- When Privilege Pretends to be Economics by Vivek Kaul on newslaundry – Zomato and Blinkit gig workers went on strike on 31 December 2025. Deepinder Goyal of Eternal wrote a post on X. There were many counter-arguments of what Goyal wrote but this is what I thought was one of the best counter-arguments I read, as on date.
- Homo opportunisticus: The contingent, contested evolution of caste by Tony Joseph, The Hindu
Writing
- eko
- Pradeep’s Space Newsletter #67
- X thread on the Kalyan Array. This led to writing a stub of the Kalyan Array on the English Wikipedia.
Watching
- Eko, on Netflix.
I met with Saurabh and his co-conspirators here in Pune.
Cdr. Abhilash Tomy has this to say about the INSV Kaundinya journey.
Parallel Spirals 
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