Fiction, screenplays, and popular science, mostly about technology, scientific ideas, and the human mess around both.
Creative Writing
Unpublished manuscript
Distorted Mirrors
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A literary-fiction collection about ordinary people in present-day India and its near-futures, living with technologies that arrive before anyone has agreed what they are for.
The stories are less interested in spectacle than in the smaller moral injuries of progress: attention traded for convenience, intimacy mediated by systems, and lives reduced to data that can be optimised away.
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The collection is unpublished; the running order is still being decided.
Syntheia
Under the Same Sun
Foreign Debris
Citation Needed
The Tawaif’s Daughter
30,000 Years of Forgetting
Customer Satisfaction
A Flexible Spine
Confessions of a Machine
Through the Smoke and Screens
Code of Beauty
Desirable End
Tower of AI Babel
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Screenplay
Draft
Freezer
A science fiction screenplay for a short film that interweaves first contact, climate catastrophe, and an intimate love story across three timelines. Adapted from Sheetkapat by Subodh P. Javadekar.
Logline
When the solar system drifts into a molecular cloud and plunges Earth into a thousand-year ice age, two lovers in a freezing near-future Pune gamble on being frozen alive — hoping to wake, centuries later, to a world worth living in.
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A collection of Marathi popular-science articles exploring how animals recognise themselves, whether computers can think, and what the chemistry of space might tell us about the spread of life.
The articles range from immunity and organ regeneration to Moore's Law, lie detection, and materials that bend light, examining both the possibilities of science and the limits behind promises such as perpetual motion.
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प्राण्यांमधील स्वत्वाची जाणीव – Self-awareness in animals
अवकाशातील बकिबॉल्स आणि जीवनसृष्टीचा प्रसार – Buckyballs in space and the spread of life
रोगप्रतिकारक शक्ती आणि प्रजननक्षमतेचे व्यस्त प्रमाण! – The trade-off between immunity and fertility
मूरचा नियम आणि संगणकाची प्रगती – Moore's Law and the advance of computing
संगणक मानवासारखा विचार करू शकेल काय? – Can computers think like humans?
असत्यशोधनाचे तंत्रज्ञान – The technology of lie detection
चिरंतन कार्यशील यंत्रांचे मायाजाळ – The myth of perpetual-motion machines
प्राण्यांमधील तापमान-नियंत्रण व्यवस्था – Temperature regulation in animals
अदृश्य होणारे पदार्थ: मेटामटेरिअल्स – Materials that vanish: metamaterials
मानवी अवयवांची पुनर्वाढ होऊ शकते का? – Can human organs regenerate?
Originally published as a series of articles in 2011 in Loksatta, a Marathi-language daily of the Indian Express Group, with an estimated 3.8 million monthly readers.
