Track B - Books & Narrative

Five out. Five annoying a printer somewhere.

The subjects wander - calm, strategy, food, poetry, the human condition - but they're all the same instinct: notice the pattern, then say it plainly, ideally with a joke.

Published
The Art of Unfluster - book cover

The Art of Unfluster

A field guide for imperfect people negotiating with chaos. Politely. With snacks.

Not a manifesto from an enlightened monk who wakes at 4 a.m. to chant on a mountain. A field guide from a man who overthinks emails, occasionally doomscrolls, and maintains that coffee is a personality trait. It won't eliminate the chaos. It'll teach you to negotiate with it.

Strategy in Everyday Life - book cover

Strategy in Everyday Life

The unauthorised MBA of being human.

Everything business school teaches you about strategy, quietly smuggled into the decisions you actually make - what to cook, when to quit, how to argue, whom to trust. No case studies about airlines. Just the frameworks you were using anyway, finally named.

The Somewhat Biased Guide to Odia Food - book cover

The Somewhat Biased Guide to Odia Food

A love letter to a cuisine the rest of the country keeps forgetting.

Unapologetically partial, occasionally indignant, and hungry throughout. Part food writing, part cultural defence, part personal history - a vibrant, funny, deeply biased tour of Odia food by someone with no intention of pretending to be objective.

Wander Yonder - book cover

Wander Yonder

Poems for the restless and the slightly lost.

A collection of poetry and small worlds - the quieter, stranger register of the same mind that builds data centres and argues about hydrogen pricing. Proof that the world-building doesn't stop when the spreadsheets close.

Human Stories in Inhuman Times - book cover

Human Stories in Inhuman Times

On staying human while the machines get interesting.

Reflections and narratives about people - tenderness, absurdity, resilience - set against an era determined to automate all three. Less a warning about technology than a reminder of what it's supposed to be for.

In the press
Coming soon

The Somewhat Biased Guide to Bangalore Food

The bias travels south.

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The Quick (and Not-so-dirty) Guide to India's DPDP Act

Data-protection law, made readable by someone who resents that it wasn't already.

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The Bookshop That Wasn't

Fiction.

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The Chronicles of the Monosyllabic Traveller

The 112 meditation methods of the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra - the oldest instructions for being alive.

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Learn Quantum with G.O.A.T

Quantum computing, taught without the customary intimidation.