What Never Dies? Nachiketa and Death, from the Kaṭha Upaniṣad, told as a tholu bommalāṭa shadow-puppet play. youtu.be/1sD9HrgWm8w

Poems That Shouldn't Be Possible, the picture-poems of Sanskrit. youtu.be/JDuUZW05lNA

"He who watches over it in the highest heaven, he surely knows… or perhaps even he does not know." The Nāsadīya Sūkta (Ṛgveda 10.129): a hymn of creation that ends in doubt. A new film on udbhava: youtu.be/ie00U8wcS7w #NasadiyaSukta #RigVeda

Been experimenting with @claudeai Opus beyond code and ended up making a short animated film on the famous two-birds metaphor from the Upanishads. youtu.be/w8zyQmOFH-A

Building wealthtech in India means effectively the data-pipeline is password-protected PDFs and excels. APIs exist on paper but these files are the painful reality. Pretty quickly you're dealing with hundreds of formats: Every broker and institution, a different layout and they change without notice. When the output is someone's financial transactions, "right 99% of the time" is still a bug. No LLM does the parsing but I've used AI extensively upstream, writing hundreds of boring deterministic parsers that a team would normally take years to write.

Pet peeve: What’s with Indian schools calling children “wards”? It’s annoying to see the word in every school communication. Surely a British colonial hangover. And bizarrely, it has escaped into parents' WhatsApp groups. Not just school groups, but college ones too! As the parent of a kid who’s just started college, I’m seeing sentences like “I encourage my ward to be there” and “Let our wards adapt.” They're your kids, not beneficiaries of some Victorian estate! Lord have mercy.

No words can express the grief of losing those you love most. Performing their last rites yourself, a ritual this raw where you're handed the fire, hits even harder. And yet it is the ritual that carries you. Grief needs a container, and ritual is that container. You fold your hands and chant the same mantras, the same sequence of rice, sesame, water and fire performed in millions of Hindu homes, unbroken for millennia. Byung-Chul Han says rituals are to time what a home is to space: they make time habitable. Modern life is starved of ritual. We never lost it.

You open-sourced Vāgdhenu a week ago, and it's now the voice of my Bhagavad Gītā reader! Thank you @prathoshap 🙏 bgita.app/get

Raja Rao, my favourite writer in English. I first read this years ago and the passage came back to me with a weight I hadn't known it held. "The whole of the Gangetic plain is one song of saintly sorrow, as though Truth began where sorrow was accepted, and India began where Truth was acknowledged. So sorrow is our river, sorrow our earth, but the green of our trees and the white of our mountains are the affirmation that Truth is possible... Truth is the Himalaya, and Ganges humanity. That is why we throw the ashes of the dead to her...The cycle of death and birth goes on eternally like the snows and the rivers." (The Serpent and the Rope)

🚀 Introducing CashFlo, an AI-powered platform that unifies all your bank & card statements in one smart dashboard. 📊 AI summaries. Smart categorization. Unified cash view. 🎥 2-min demo: youtu.be/xW1gs6OuNTQ #Fintech #AI #SaaS

We’ve been using our new product ExpenseFlo internally for the past couple of months, and are now opening it up for beta customers. ExpenseFlo is an AI-powered platform for managing expenses, vendor invoices, payments, and GST in one place: flexflo.ai

Ran controlled benchmarks of GPT-4o, GPT-5, and mini variants on real invoices — surprising insights on reliability vs. cost for production document parsing: medium.com/p/598c5b02dae4

Embedding LLMs into everyday workflows: how we achieved near 100% accuracy in parsing invoices and GST data. medium.com/@kvarma/llm-in-th…

I recently wrote about my experience building a real-world web application with AI-powered coding. 🚀 Check it out here: medium.com/@kvarma/ai-powere…

A blog post on my Sanskrit Primer App link.medium.com/PbsKh7zmiMb