Tag: Postscript blog
Yudhishthira at the Flyover: India’s Supreme Test
I’ve spent this long Independence Day weekend tacitly participating in citizen protests in the capital on the draconian measures suggested by the Supreme Court against ... Read More
The Dogs Must Go: Supreme Orders, Slipper Logic, and the Last Bark of Compassion
<!--Uday Deb--> So it’s official: the dogs must go. The Supreme Court of India, after deep legal introspection and probably some very loud WhatsApp forwards, ... Read More
Escape Room Redux: India declines the draw, Stokes ghosts the Handshake, and Jadeja keeps the change
<!--Uday Deb--> At 11:10 AM on Day 4, India were 0 for 2. The deficit? 311. The mood? Funeral. Chris Woakes was on a roll, ... Read More
The Unwilling, The Unknowing & The Unbothered: A Field Guide to Late-Stage Everything
<!--Uday Deb--> There’s a special place in history for the people who made something out of nothing. The survivors. The jugaadu. The overextended. The under-resourced. ... Read More
A Polite Rafi Song. A Sahir Sermon. And the Mind That Just Won’t Log Off
<!--Uday Deb--> There are days when Spotify doesn’t shuffle — it summons. This morning, somewhere between unread messages and a slightly-off coffee, my speakers served up ... Read More
Fix You, or Fix Your LinkedIn Bio?
<!--Uday Deb--> There are two kinds of people in this world: those who go to Coldplay concerts, and those who wake up the next morning ... Read More
A tale of two cities (and a beer tray): Notes from Cologne and Bonn
<!--Uday Deb--> “Sunset over Cologne: the Hohenzollern Bridge frames the twin spires of Kölner Dom as the Rhine reflects the golden hour glow.” Somewhere between ... Read More
WiFi at 40,000 Feet and Other Modern Tragedies
<!--Uday Deb--> Somewhere over Athens, and very much online. Many years ago — and I say this not with the smugness of an ageing tech ... Read More
High-Frequency Fibs: How SEBI can avoid getting JANED again
<!--Uday Deb--> Somewhere between Dalal Street and Wall Street, there’s a humming server, a caffeinated quant, and an algorithm that can out-think morality in under ... Read More
Fork You Very Much: Why the West still loses sleep over brown hands in rice
<!--Uday Deb--> There are few things that still manage to unravel the seams of Western civility quite like a brown man casually eating with his ... Read More