A Wikipedia racing habit with a friend, a website that solves the game in advance, and the accidental discovery that any topic on Wikipedia is a maximum of about six links from any other.

Unlimited-OCR is a small, open Baidu model that reads entire multi-page PDFs in a single pass, instead of page by page like almost everything before it.

A real-time psychological strategy game where guessing right isn't about math, it's about guessing what everyone else is about to guess. Here's how I built it, and why the hardest part had nothing to do with game design.

A real-time psychological strategy game recreating the "guess 80% of the average" numbers game from Alice in Borderland, with AI opponents and live multiplayer.

A serious look at the prophetic perfect tense, a Hebrew grammatical habit where the future gets written in the past tense because the prophet was, apparently, just that sure.

A poem by Otto René Castillo, in English and in Malayalam, posted in solidarity with the protests at Jantar Mantar.

Eleven barefoot Bengali footballers beat the British Army's own regiment at its own game, and then spent the next two decades watching the empire try to make sure it never happened again.

A quick walkthrough of everything I just added to saraththarayil.com — weather card, lab simulations, guestbook, console commands, navbar overhaul, and a few other things.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.