Essays & Stories

What I write about

For more than twenty years I have written nearly every night, in two languages, by one rule: only where there’s a gap. When a question won’t leave me alone and no good book answers it, I go down into the subject as deep as I can — then come back up and hand over what I found, in plain language, so you don’t have to spend the years I did. Everything here comes from that trade.

Work & its absurdities

Offices, gig apps, ambition, dignity — the comedy and cost of how we earn a living. Where Coinman began.

Machines & being human

Deep in technology by trade and by temperament — essays on where it’s taking us, and what the future of it changes about being human.

India, remembered

History, small towns, the people who keep the records — and the Hindi literary tradition I write inside.

Language & minds

Why we lie, trust, swear, and believe — curiosity essays about the strangeness of being a person.

The bilingual desk

Craft notes, and what changes when a story moves between Hindi and English.

The deep dives

Subjects that seized me and wouldn’t let go — researched for years, then connected and retold for readers who have the same itch but not the time.

Latest papers

From The Mishra Papers — filed every two weeks.

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