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Census 2027
Why Google Can’t Do What India’s Census Does: The Impossible Scale Challenge
by Sarawanan
We pit India’s Census against Google’s data machine. Discover why the gritty, human-powered task of counting every Indian is a challenge of scale and trust that Silicon Valley’s best algorithms …
CultureUncategorized
Slow Simmer or Furious Whistle? The Great Indian Cooking Debate That Defines Us
by Sarawanan
Discover the deep philosophy in your kitchen! Explore how the choice between a pressure cooker and slow cooking in India reveals cultural values on time, flavour, efficiency, and tradition.
Remember saying “thank you” after paying? UPI’s seamlessness killed that simple ritual. We investigate how the “payment done” phone flash replaced human connection, creating a new, silent social contract in …
UPI didn’t just change payments; it changed friendships. The ease of peer-to-peer cash requests has turned us all into on-demand lenders, creating new social pressures and blurring the lines between …
Explore the “Station Symphony”—the story of how Indian Railways’ announcement system became a pioneer in voice technology, using a robust ‘word-stitching’ method to solve massive multilingual challenges long before the …
UPI
The Pointing Epidemic: Why Every Indian Shopkeeper Has Developed the Same Hand Gesture
by Sarawanan
From Kashmir to Kanyakumari, Indian shopkeepers have adopted a single hand gesture for UPI payments. We investigate “The Great Indian Point,” an unspoken national sign language born from technology, necessity, …
The crisp ₹10 note of pocket money is gone, replaced by a UPI ping. We investigate how digital allowances are affecting our children’s financial literacy and their tactile connection to …
Technology
Tech Rituals: How Festival Traditions are Being Enhanced by Mobile Applications
by Sarawanan
Discover how technology is enhancing, not replacing, Indian festival traditions. Explore specific apps for everything from Diwali rangoli designs to Ganesh Visarjan crowd-management that make rituals more accessible.
Remember when a dead phone was just an inconvenience? Thanks to our total reliance on UPI, it’s now a full-blown panic attack. We explore this new Indian anxiety and how …
