Archive
2026
- Book Review - The American Way of Killing by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Cost of Being Captured
- Perfume Project 2026: Chasing The Unknowns (Part 3 of 4)
- Perfume Project 2026: Chasing the Unknown (Part 2 of 4)
- Perfume Project 2026: Chasing the Unknown (Part 1 of 4)
- The perfume view of Iran
- Life lessons
- Two More Perfume Milestones Every Collector Will Relate To
2025
- The Other 1% — Sanjay Chakravorty et al
- Chanel
- Perfume Myths
- Rethinking Alcohol: A Personal Journey Toward Balance
- Noir de Noir by Tom Ford
- Fantastic Patchouli frags
- La Douleur Exquise by Les Abstraits
- The Wild Beauty of Animalic Notes in Perfumery
- Hidden heroes of Perfumes
- Bertrand Douchafour
- Artisanal Perfumes
- How (not) to buy perfumes
- Confessions of a Fraghead: Milestones That Crowned My Obsession
- Enigma by Roja (and others)
- Les Senteurs
- Malli Nadu by Nissaba
- Private Label by Jovoy Paris
- Sultan Vetiver by Nishane
- Diaghilev by Roja Perfumes
- Trayee by Neela Vermeire
- Salome by Papillon Perfumery
2024
2023
2022
2019
2018
2017
- Where is Microsoft going?
- Hit Refresh * Satya Nadella
- The Phoenix Project * Gene Kim, Kevin Behr
- 1991 * Sanjaya Baru
- Book Review — Industries of the Future
- 5 takeaways from my India trip
2016
- Album Review — All Terrain Guitar
- Shareholder letter on AWS
- The Great Speeches of Modern India * Rudrangshu Mukherjee
2015
2014
- Book Review — Cruising Altitude
- Book Review — An Accidental Prime Minister
- Book Review — An Uncertain Glory
- Book Review — Outliers
- Album Review — Bombay Makossa
- Software defined phones
- Book Review — A Southern Music
2013
- Book Review: The Lowland
- Budget/ Debt Crisis — What’s coming?
- Debt Ceiling Debate II
- Rasika
- There are no free lunches…
- Rupee crisis for dymmies
- Book Review: Schneier on Security
- Book Review: India Grows by Night
- Album Review — Beyond the Ragasphere
- Book Review: Conversations with Mani Ratnam
- Book Review: Shantaram
2012
- Book Review: Currency Wars
- Book Review: Half the Sky
- Book Review: Audacity of Hope
- Book Review: Straight From the Gut
- Book Review: Why Nations Fail
- History of Food
- Kings need to (make us) laugh too!
- Atheism Vs Agnosticism — What do they mean anyways?
- Humming Now #17
- How do stand-up comedies work?
- Concert etiquette
- Top 5 lessons
- Social Postage
- Book Review: The Great Partition
- Humming Now #16
- Rand and me
- Book Review: It Happened In India
- Book Review: Predictably Irrational
- Spellbound — Indian IT Industry
- Book review: Rita Hayworth
- Book review: In spite of the gods
- Coffee with me
2011
- Humming Now #15
- Could Amazon come up with a phone?
- Ilayaraja glows again
- Net Neutrality — What is the true cost?
- USPS and its survival
- HOV lanes and economics
- Eat healthy: “Reboot” your system
- Debt issue explained
- Sewing machine
- Humming Now #14
- Music Review — Bada Boom
- Music Review — Three for the music
- IPv4 — What is the reality?
- Travel: My most favorite place in the world (ahem, America)
2010
- Security Theater
- Humming Now #13
- Book Review: The Post-American World
- Music Review — Tarunam
- Net Neutrality
- Mahakavi
- Humming Now #12
- Book Review: India After Gandhi
- Humming now #11
- If a template is all you can offer
- Spellbound: Feedback
- Classical Music — Demystified
- Book Review: Linchpin
- Story of odd numbers
- Humming now #10
- Book Review: A Handbook of Hindu Mythology
- RK interviews RK
- Review: Phir Mile Sur Mera Tumhara
- Book Review (in < 60 words) : Freakonomics
- Humming now #9
- Humming now #8
- Culture Curtain
2009
- Book Review : Terror Incorporated
- A living case study
- Humming now #7
- Rio Travelogue
- Humming now #6 — Grand Episode
- Humming now #5
- Humming now #4
- Not so fast
- Has Twitter Killed Blogging and How to blog in the age of Twitter?
- Car Dealers 101