Culture & Ideas
Left, Right, and the Great Indian Confusion
A French seating chart, a 40°C summer, and a tuxedo nobody asked for: a comic look at how Indian politics got squeezed into left and right.
Kakratian · · 7 min read
Kakrat · n.
The racket of many crows, each certain it is the one making sense.
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Petri Dishes and PowerPoints: Inside India's Biotech Startup Circus
A clear-eyed, comic tour of India's biotech startup ecosystem: ambitious science, patient capital, regulatory friction, and a growing talent base.
Kakratian · · 7 min read
Culture & Ideas
Kakrat / Kaklat: The Ancient Word.
A philosophical meditation on noise, chaos, and the eternal cawing of the human soul.
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The Unread Diary
Sneha finds her late grandmother's Tamil diary and follows its final clue into a family history that is tender, secretive, and unexpectedly funny.
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The Quiet Return of De Novo Protein Design
Deep learning has made it possible to design proteins that have never existed in nature. What that actually means, and what it doesn't, yet.
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