Fiction, screenplays, and popular science, mostly about technology, scientific ideas, and the human mess around both.
Creative Writing
Manuscript
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Distorted Mirrors
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The collection is unpublished; the running order is still being decided.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
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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.
A compilation of ten popular science articles originally published in Loksatta, a leading Marathi-language daily (circulation ~400,000) published by the Indian Express Group. Written in 2011, the articles aimed to make contemporary scientific ideas accessible to a broad Marathi-speaking readership.
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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?