What Happens to the Kid Who Places 400th
Selection systems are designed around the people they select. This one produces roughly a hundred thousand participants and thirty selections, and has no answer …
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Essays on research, deeptech, and capital, and on why so little of India’s technical talent ever becomes a company. Written as I go, published before I am certain.
Why Interoperability Is the Least Glamorous Problem in Defence
Nobody announces a translation layer. Everybody announces a platform. The gap between those two facts is why platforms bought over forty years cannot operate …
Read →The Honest State of Quantum Computing in 2026
There is no quantum computer today that beats a classical one on a workload anybody runs commercially. That has been true every year it was denied, it is still …
Read →The Distance Between Seeing and Acting
Detection has become cheap and fast. The decision that follows detection has not. When the threat operates in seconds and the loop operates in minutes, better …
Read →India Has Simulation Users and No Simulation Builders
Every serious Indian manufacturer runs its analysis on solvers written in the United States, France or Germany. There are good reasons for that and none of them …
Read →Peer Review Is Unpaid, Invisible, and Nobody Is Measuring It
The only quality gate in science runs on volunteer labour worth over a billion dollars a year in one country, with no record of who did it, no measure of …
Read →What Actually Happens Between a Prototype and a Product
The demo works. Eighteen months later there is still no product. The work in between is real, it is most of the total effort, and almost nobody budgets for it …
Read →Olympiad Math Rewards Solving. Research Rewards Asking.
Competition trains you to find the answer to a question someone else guaranteed has one. Research requires deciding which question is worth asking and whether …
Read →Why India Designs No Chips
About a fifth of the world’s chip design engineers work in India. India owns almost no chip architectures. Those two facts are compatible, and …
Read →What It Costs to Not Trust a Paper
Every figure here is cited. Half of preclinical research does not reproduce, ten thousand papers were retracted in one year, and the direct cost of the first …
Read →Digital Twins Are Sold as Dashboards
A live 3D view of your plant with sensor values on it is a dashboard. It becomes a twin when it can tell you something you did not measure, and when someone has …
Read →India Selects Its Mathematicians Too Late
The funnel starts at roughly one lakh students and ends at six. The problem is not that it is narrow, because it has to be. The problem is where it starts and …
Read →The Negative Results Nobody Publishes
An experiment that failed in one lab gets run again in fifteen others, because there is no way to find out that it failed. The numbers on how much of the record …
Read →Why Indian Startups Hire Six Vendors and Ship Nothing
The failure I keep seeing at events is not a funding failure or a talent failure. It is that the work was cut into pieces along the wrong lines, and the …
Read →A Short History of How Mathematicians Started Pricing Risk
Bachelier to Black-Scholes to microstructure, and the point somewhere in the last twenty years where the field stopped receiving new theory and started fitting …
Read →Who Owns Your Data After You Graduate?
A doctoral student produces the work, holds none of it, and in most cases has no independent record establishing that they did it. Three separate problems that …
Read →What GPS Denial Actually Does to a Drone
Absence, jamming, spoofing and multipath are four different failures that get discussed as one problem. They fail differently, they need different detection, …
Read →Research Log, April and May 2026
Two months in one log, because I did not write one in April. What moved on the Yang-Mills extension, where the topological finance work honestly stands, and why …
Read →At the Launch of Navachar Mantra
I was at IIT Delhi for the launch of Navachar Mantra, a national initiative by MSDE to support grassroots innovators from Tier-2, Tier-3 cities and rural India. …
Read →A Sunday at the Founders' Mixer
I spent a Sunday at the Founders’ Mixer hosted by AIC GGSIPU, CEDAT, and Bizowl. It was quieter than most events I attend no panels, no keynotes. Just …
Read →What the AI Vibe Sprint Actually Taught Me
I went to the AI Vibe Sprint Delhi NCR hosted by The Product Folks and Emergent expecting to see people build things quickly. What I left with was a question …
Read →Two Days at the ICC World Technology Convention
I spent two days at the Indian Chamber of Commerce’s World Technology Convention in Mumbai, sitting in panels on defense, cybersecurity, and education, …
Read →Your Research Is Not Safe, And You Probably Know It
A Delhi University professor recently lost six years of PhD research to a bag theft near North Campus. That story stayed with me, because I think most …
Read →Has the Yang-Mills Mass Gap Been Solved? On the Nye Paper and What It Actually Claims
Every time I tell someone I am working on the Yang-Mills mass gap problem, I get the same response. “Hasn’t that been solved?” Sometimes it …
Read →YC Startup School Bangalore: What a Room Full of Builders Does to Your Thinking
I flew to Bangalore for YC Startup School on April 18th. I came back with a diary full of contacts, a clearer sense of what the Indian startup ecosystem looks …
Read →Physics of Market Regimes and Microstructure
Whether physics has anything real to say to financial markets is, to me, already settled. Physics provides the language (phase transitions, scaling laws, …
Read →The Defence Middleware Project: Origin, Build, and Where This Is Going
Indian defence platforms that cannot talk to each other are currently made to talk through proprietary hardware bought from Western vendors. That is a software …
Read →Research Log, March 2026
In March, work that had been building for a long time crossed the line from work-in-progress to something that exists in the world. The preprint went out and …
Read →Why I Am Interested in the Yang–Mills Mass Gap Problem
A reflection on why I am interested in the Yang-Mills mass gap problem.
Read →What the Yang–Mills Mass Gap Problem Actually Asks
An explanation of what the Yang-Mills mass gap problem actually asks.
Read →Why Research Needs Builder Thinking
A reflection on why meaningful research requires the mindset of a builder, written as advice to my younger self.
Read →What Talking to Startup Founders Changed About How I Think About Research
How exposure to startup founders reshaped my approach to scientific research, risk, and execution.
Read →My First Hackathon: Where Ideas Turned Into Reality
Reflections from my first hackathon experience and how it changed how I think about building things.
Read →Differences Between Olympiad Math and Research Math
A reflection on the differences between olympiad math and research math, and what each prepares you for.
Read →BeCon 2026: Notes from a Weekend That Stayed With Me
Reflections written two weeks after attending BeCon 2026 at IIT Delhi.
Read →IITBMO 2026: A Day of Quiet, Problems, and Perspective
Reflections from participating in the IIT Bombay Mathematics Olympiad 2026.
Read →Why I'm Writing This Blog
What this blog is for, who it’s meant to help, and what I plan to write here.
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