Long reads on seed systems, AI ethics, colonial agricultural history, neutral mutation theory, and the occasional digression into literature, food, and the philosophy of error.
2025 · Substack
Drawing a parallel between software bugs and neutral genetic mutations via Kimura's neutral theory. What does AI error tell us about productive noise, evolutionary drift, and the unintentional? Uses Anthropic's Mythos/Project Glasswing as a hook.
2025 · Substack
A historical essay on seed policy in colonial India (1857–1947) — how the colonial state reorganised indigenous seed knowledge, varietal diversity, and agricultural research to serve extractive purposes.
2025 · Substack
A critical essay on AI infrastructure capital flows — who benefits from the GPU economy, and what it means for food systems, climate, and the Global South when AI investment is decoupled from agricultural need.
In Progress · Book
A nonfiction history of universities — from the Nalanda ruins to the Humboldt model to the contemporary research university's identity crisis in the age of AI and institutional audit culture.
In Progress · Book
A book on Indian cuisine — not a recipe book, but a cultural and historical account of how Indian food became what it is, what it lost in translation, and what the word "curry" actually conceals.
Academic · Routledge
An abstract for a Routledge edited volume, exploring the philosophical implications of AI advisory systems in smallholder farming — the transformation of the farmer-seed-knowledge triad in a posthuman frame.
"The seed is the most political object in agriculture."
— Arnab Gupta