Why I Call Them Hustlers, Not SC/ST

Before we go further, a word on language, because words decide how you see yourself. Throughout this piece I refuse to use the label "SC/ST." That term is a bureaucrat's box, a category designed by the very system doing the discriminating …

Every movement begins with a conviction that will not stay quiet. For me, that conviction arrived as a calling: to gather believers into a fellowship where Jesus stands at the center, where caste has no place at the table, and where faith shapes not only how we pray but how …

There's a special kind of exhaustion reserved for people who work with Microsoft products. It's not the exhaustion of debugging a null pointer at 2 a.m., or the exhaustion of a meeting that should've been an email. It's the exhaustion of opening a tutorial you bookmarked four months ago …

They call me Ekalaivan of IIT.

If you know the Mahabharata, you know why that name means something to me. Ekalaivan learned archery without ever formally sitting before his teacher. He absorbed the craft through devotion, observation, and relentless practice. That is my story too. I never held an IIT …

Choosing between Azure's container and app-hosting services comes down to how much control you need versus how much operational burden you're willing to carry. Four services cover most scenarios, ranging from fully managed PaaS to full Kubernetes. The trick is matching the abstraction level to the workload rather than reaching …

The Diamond Sourcing Program (DSP) is a community support initiative personally funded by Raja CSP Raman via Kactii. Through our DSP, we find fresh diamonds — people whose efforts and dreams deserve recognition, but who may not yet have the tools to fully chase them. As a gesture of appreciation, we …

I'm not showing off. This is just what I am.

I'm an FDFS Freak — First Day, First Show. But in GenAI.

You know the type. The fan who books the earliest possible screening, front row, opening day. Not for the review scores, not for the crowd — for the sheer thrill …

UC Berkeley has open-sourced FreeToken, an edge-native inference engine that runs frontier-scale Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models on consumer hardware. It treats GPU, CPU, host memory, and PCIe interconnects as a single unified inference platform.

The approach works because of how MoE models are structured. A model like DeepSeek-V4-Flash carries 284B total …

September 5th is Teachers' Day, marking the birthday of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan — philosopher, statesman, and India's second President. He once described casteism as a cancer afflicting India. In that spirit, this piece revisits his views on the subject and asks that we treat Teachers' Day as an occasion to confront …

A claim from social researchers in Tamil Nadu holds that "Thevar" was never a caste name at its root — it was a title given to the leader of a rural place, and only later came to be read as a community label. There is significant truth in this. It reflects …