Having always been in humid cities - Chennai and Atlanta - recently, I discovered dry heat.

Good lords in heaven, what in the name of Dante’s levels of hell is this new form of heat!

NEW: Swiggy has gamified health insurance for its food delivery workers. Divided into gold, silver & bronze, their insurance changes weekly as per the category they fall under that week based on the points earned.

My latest for Rest of World: restofworld.org/2024/swiggy-he…

“It’s better than drugs, Jeremy”

I can finally see why my dad would wake up at 6 o clock during vacation and start exploring the city as soon the first light hits.

Ways to spot an academic in public.

All set for ComparativeCognition conference and some v cool animal facts filled couple of days!

(Look out for my poster on Friday and I will convince you why monkeys are cool!!)

Poetry, but make it cricket.

- The Picador Book of Cricket.

Solar eclipse from plane

That deafening roar!!!

Folks who have gone to Canada for conferences - what kind of visa do I need to apply for? Is it the business visa or the temporary resident visa?

Please don’t ask a reader, what their favourite book is.

Chances are high that you will render them catatonic.

அந்தாதி (Andhadhi) is such a beautiful word!

Comes from ‘Andham’ meaning the end and ‘Adi’ meaning the beginning, so calling someone your andhadhi means ‘You are my beginning and my end’ - take that all other flirty words.

Get a twitter bestie who’s also a nerd who’s also a CSK (and Thala) fan who’s also into aquariums and botanical gardens and who’d also travel all the way from Ithaca to come visit you!

Highly highly recommend.

If you're interested in data on India – covering everything from work to health to the economy – go check out Rukmini S's newly launched: dataforindia.com

A bit like Our World In Data, Data for India is a public platform full of charts *and* context for those numbers.

Might lose my vocal cords but issokay