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SARATH
THARAYIL

DATA SCIENTIST // PROFESSIONAL GENERALIST

Data by profession, technology by obsession. Making sense of data and the machines that create it. Absolutely terrible at small talk, but can talk about anything else.

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Vasthavam

> Kerala's Media Accountability & Political Transparency Platform. A civic tech project to fact-check claims, track news credibility, and hold politicians accountable.

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[ LATEST WRITEUP ]India

The Rules That Broke India's Cities

India builds rockets and runs global software. Its cities can't build a footpath. This is the story of how three policy decisions, made in 1898, 1956, and 1962, engineered the dysfunction of the Indian metropolis.

Jun 7, 2026READ FULL POST →
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SARATH THARAYIL

DATA SCIENTIST/GENERALIST

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Absolutely terrible at small talk, but can talk about anything else.

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കൊന്നാൽ പാപം തിന്നാൽ തീരാ

// Konnal paapam thinnal theera

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Vasthavam

> Kerala's Media Accountability & Political Transparency Platform. A civic tech project to fact-check claims, track news credibility, and hold politicians accountable.

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[ LATEST POST ]

The Rules That Broke India's Cities

India builds rockets and runs global software. Its cities can't build a footpath. This is the story of how three policy decisions, made in 1898, 1956, and 1962, engineered the dysfunction of the Indian metropolis.

Jun 2026READ →
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2026.06.08OPEN →
A coconut sitting on the boundary wall
TOPICS //
ProverbCoconutKerala
METRIC.OWNER //

Sarath Tharayil

EXPLORE DATA>>>
2026.06.07OPEN →
The Rules That Broke India's Cities
SUMMARY //

India builds rockets and runs global software. Its cities can't build a footpath. This is the story of how three policy decisions, made in 1898, 1956, and 1962, engineered the dysfunction of the Indian metropolis.

TOPICS //
IndiaCitiesUrban Planning
METRIC.OWNER //

Sarath Tharayil

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2026.06.07OPEN →
Vasthavam, fact-checking record for the public
SUMMARY //

Kerala's Media Accountability & Political Transparency Platform. A civic technology platform to fact-check claims, track news outlet credibility, and hold politicians accountable.

TOPICS //
Civic TechFact-CheckingNext.jsSupabase
METRIC.OWNER //

Project

OPEN PROJECT>>>
2026.06.06OPEN →
How Google Maps Finds Your Route, and Why a 66-Year-Old Idea Still Wins
SUMMARY //

In 2025, mathematicians proved that Dijkstra's 1959 algorithm isn't the fastest way to find a route. Then someone actually built the new one. Dijkstra won anyway.

TOPICS //
Computer ScienceAlgorithmsMathematics
METRIC.OWNER //

Sarath Tharayil

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2026.06.05OPEN →
Something Jammed Europe's GPS
SUMMARY //

For seven years, something kept briefly killing GPS signals across an entire continent. In 2026, a team of researchers finally found out what.

TOPICS //
SpaceSecurityAerospaceTechnology
METRIC.OWNER //

Sarath Tharayil

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2026.06.04OPEN →
I Vibe Coded in a Job Interview. Then I Over-Engineered It.
SUMMARY //

How a 30-minute fuzzy search task in a live interview became a search engine running 21 parallel algorithms, a live signal panel, and a full diagnostics modal.

TOPICS //
TechnologyCareer
METRIC.OWNER //

Sarath Tharayil

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2026.06.04OPEN →
Overbuilt, a Ridiculously Over-Engineered Search Engine
SUMMARY //

A static company search engine running 21 parallel algorithms, a live signal panel, personalization, and a full scoring diagnostics modal.

TOPICS //
ToolsData & Analytics
METRIC.OWNER //

Project

OPEN PROJECT>>>
2026.06.02OPEN →
Building Vasthavam: Accountability in Kerala's Media and Politics
SUMMARY //

Why I am building a civic technology platform to fact-check claims, track news credibility, and hold politicians accountable in Kerala.

TOPICS //
Civic TechPoliticsFact-Checking
METRIC.OWNER //

Sarath Tharayil

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2026.06.01OPEN →
I Let a Team of AI Agents Write 30,000 Words While I Watched
SUMMARY //

How I used /teamwork-preview in Google Antigravity CLI to orchestrate parallel agents that expanded 106 advanced AI concept pages, caught their own mistakes, and delivered a 30,000-word knowledge base.

TOPICS //
AIAntigravityDev
METRIC.OWNER //

Sarath Tharayil

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2026.05.31OPEN →
Always Falling. Always Missing.
SUMMARY //

Astronauts on the ISS are not in zero gravity. Gravity up there is 90% as strong as on the ground. So why do they float? Because they are in a permanent freefall, and they keep missing the Earth.

TOPICS //
ScienceSpacePhysics
METRIC.OWNER //

Sarath Tharayil

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2026.05.30OPEN →
The 1064/364 Bitcoin Theory: Genius Pattern or Beautiful Coincidence?
SUMMARY //

There is a theory circulating in crypto circles that Bitcoin follows a perfect 1064-day bull, 364-day bear cycle. The numbers line up suspiciously well for the last two cycles. Here is what the data actually shows, and why you should be excited and skeptical in equal measure.

TOPICS //
BitcoinFinanceTechnology
METRIC.OWNER //

Sarath Tharayil

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2026.05.29OPEN →
The Staircase That Looks Straight
SUMMARY //

A square, a diagonal, and a staircase that refuses to get shorter no matter how many steps you add. This is the staircase paradox, and it is trying to teach you something important about limits.

TOPICS //
Mathematics
METRIC.OWNER //

Sarath Tharayil

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2026.05.24OPEN →
The Accounting Trick That Turns State Failure Into Economic Growth
SUMMARY //

India is the world's fastest-growing major economy. Part of that growth is your school fees, your hospital bill, and your air purifier. Here is how the design of national accounting quietly rewards the state for failing you.

TOPICS //
EconomicsIndiaPolicy
METRIC.OWNER //

Sarath Tharayil

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2026.05.24OPEN →
The Linguistics of Putting Women in Their Place
SUMMARY //

How languages engineer gender hierarchies through vocabulary. A deep investigation into semantic derogation, gendered vocatives in Malayalam, and the feminist movements reclaiming language from the inside out.

TOPICS //
LanguageIndiaPolitics
METRIC.OWNER //

Sarath Tharayil

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2026.05.23OPEN →
Your Boarding Pass Is a Credential. Stop Posting It.
SUMMARY //

The barcode on a boarding pass contains your passport number, home address, frequent flyer balance, and a precise schedule of when your house will be empty. Here is the full technical breakdown.

TOPICS //
SecurityPrivacyTechnology
METRIC.OWNER //

Sarath Tharayil

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2026.05.23OPEN →
Why Is the Sky White in Kerala but Blue in England?
SUMMARY //

The physics of why tropical skies look washed out while temperate ones stay deep blue. A story about particles, humidity, and light.

TOPICS //
scienceatmospherephysicsindia
METRIC.OWNER //

Sarath Tharayil

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2026.05.22OPEN →
The $400 Royal Oak That's Changing Everything
SUMMARY //

AP and Swatch dropped colorful pocket watches for $400 and watch Twitter lost its mind. Here is the full story: the Royal Oak's wild history, the legal crisis nobody talked about, and why this collaboration is smarter than it looks.

TOPICS //
WatchesDesignIP
METRIC.OWNER //

Sarath Tharayil

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2026.05.21OPEN →
The Wheel That Became a God
SUMMARY //

A chakram is a razor-edged steel ring that Nihang warriors could throw 100 meters at 1500 RPM. The same object, in Hindu cosmology, severs the ego, eclipses the sun, and exists as a conscious deity. The story connecting those two things is stranger than either.

TOPICS //
HistoryMythologyMartial ArtsHinduism
METRIC.OWNER //

Sarath Tharayil

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2026.05.20OPEN →
The Calendar Kerala Has Been Keeping Since 825 CE
SUMMARY //

The Kollam Era is a solar calendar specific to Kerala, in continuous use for over 1,200 years. Its year is not borrowed from any pan-Indian system. It begins every August when the sun enters Leo.

TOPICS //
LanguageHistory
METRIC.OWNER //

Sarath Tharayil

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2026.05.19OPEN →
The Beautiful Fact That Everything Ends
SUMMARY //

You have already forgotten most of your life. That might be exactly right. On memory, impermanence, and why endings are not the enemy of meaning.

TOPICS //
Personal
METRIC.OWNER //

Sarath Tharayil

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