A carefully crafted digital collection presenting Seneca’s profound Letters to Lucilius in an elegant, readable format. This site celebrates the enduring wisdom of one of history’s greatest Stoic philosophers.
The platform features thoughtful typography, intuitive navigation, and a clean design that honors the depth and beauty of Seneca’s philosophical insights. Each letter is presented with care to make these ancient teachings accessible to modern readers.
Built to showcase how classical wisdom can be presented with contemporary design sensibilities, making timeless philosophy feel both reverent and approachable.
Brilliant letters from a brilliant mind.
Akshara.ink is a passion project dedicated to rescuing India’s written heritage trapped in poorly scanned PDFs and making it readable and accessible.
Using OCR and LLM technologies, the project extracts text from old, unreadable documents and publishes them in clean, readable formats. It’s a love letter to the public domain—contributing to the preservation of India’s cultural and literary wisdom.
The name “akshara” (ಅಕ್ಷರ) is a Kannada word meaning both “letter” and “eternal”—a fitting metaphor for the timeless nature of written words.
A curated collection of historical letters, speeches, and essays that have entered the public domain. Paper Lanterns brings together the written words that shaped our world, making them accessible and discoverable for modern readers.
A garden of curiosity where interesting topics branch into fascinating tangents. For when you want to fall down the rabbit hole and see where it leads.
Dhawani.ink is my personal microblog where I share quick thoughts, observations, and notes that don’t quite fit into long-form essays.
It’s a space for thinking out loud, capturing fleeting ideas, and sharing snippets of what I’m learning, reading, or pondering. Think of it as my digital garden for shorter, more spontaneous writing.
The name “dhawani” (ध्वनि) means “sound” or “echo” in Sanskrit—a fitting metaphor for these small reverberations of thought.
Paper Trails is a thoughtfully curated RSS aggregator that helps intellectually curious readers discover high-quality essays and long-form writing without the noise.
The platform automatically aggregates content from over 135 carefully selected publications across 10 categories—from economics and politics to science and culture—making it easy to explore ideas across multiple disciplines in one place.
Key features include daily auto-updates, category browsing, “Surprise Me” discovery, and quick article previews with read times. It’s designed for readers who value depth over speed and want to spend their time with essays that actually matter.
Essays worth your time.
Because even in a dumpster fire, there are gems worth finding.
A more focused lens on the weird and wonderful things we find on the internet.
A quieter way to read the web. Smallweb gathers long-form essays from across the internet and arranges them without metrics, engagement bait, or an algorithm deciding what you see next.
Writing is organised across ten subjects — Tech, Culture, Life, Design, Economics, Finance, History, Philosophy, Psychology, and Science — with a daily curated selection and a “From the Stacks” shelf for older pieces worth revisiting.
A reading room for the unhurried web.
A data-driven look at how Indians really live. This Indian Life pulls statistics from reputable sources — the World Bank, the UN, WHO, Our World in Data — and explains them in plain language, free of jargon and spin.
Numbers are organised across six domains — Economy, People, Health, Energy, Society, and Climate — with starter questions on the big themes: inequality, growth, what’s improving, and what isn’t.
All our lives, in numbers.
Is the world getting better or worse? Hope & Despair takes ten big questions — on violence, health, poverty, climate, energy, and knowledge — and examines each across two timescales: the long historical arc and the recent year. The two often disagree.
Every chart can be read through three lenses — hope, despair, or genuine ambiguity — and every claim is sourced, cited, and revised in the open. Uncertainty is treated as an honest answer, not a failure.
A living atlas of human progress, suffering, and uncertainty.