Shorts

Law

A Court Asks Who Owns a Municipal Dataset

The answer turns out to matter to more than lawyer…

imloka Desk· 19 Aug 2026· 4 min read

Entertainment

The Typeface That Took Eleven Years

Devanagari has more conjuncts than patience.

Tushar· 17 Aug 2026· 8 min read

Science

Notes on Repair

On the quiet competence of people who fix things.

Pihoo· 15 Aug 2026· 5 min read

Travel

The Quiet Return of the Personal Website

Vijay Singh· 14 Aug 2026· 6 min read

Economy

What a Good Form Feels Like

Pihoo· 13 Aug 2026· 5 min read

Governance

Why the Night Bus Came Back

Two years after it was cut, and for none of the re…

Vaishali Singh· 12 Aug 2026· 6 min read

Law

Three Days on the Konkan Railway, Without a Plan

The timetable is a suggestion. The monsoon is not.

Vinamra Mishra· 11 Aug 2026· 9 min read

Crime

An Archive of Ordinary Rooms

Nine thousand photographs of nothing in particular…

Anamika Gaur· 10 Aug 2026· 7 min read

Agriculture

Small Models, Local Machines

The interesting question is not how large a model…

Vijay Singh· 8 Aug 2026· 9 min read

Culture

A Notebook That Refuses to Sync

Deliberately, and to its credit.

Pihoo· 7 Aug 2026· 4 min read

Governance

“The beautiful part is year six”

Balakrishnan Nair on an apprenticeship nobody has…

Tushar· 6 Aug 2026· 5 min read

Business

The Argument for Reading Slowly

Nobody has ever finished a book by skimming it.

Tushar· 5 Aug 2026· 6 min read

Psychology

On Keeping a Commonplace Book

A reading practice that predates the search box by…

Pihoo· 4 Aug 2026· 5 min read

Travel

Chennai Is Rebuilding Its Storm Drains. Again.

The fourth programme since 2015, and the first to…

imloka Desk· 3 Aug 2026· 6 min read