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Back in 2024 I wrote a post called Media Ownership.

After having gladly wasted an entire month watching an unholy amount of football in what was by far the best World Cup of my life, after having seen either the entirety, or part of, or the highlights of most of the 104 (!)

Before the video revolution of YouTube, before TikTok, before Instagram, before Netflix and HBO and Prime and Hulu and whatever the latest slop-peddling-streaming-service is popular right now, there was The Television.

The 98th Academy Awards are less than a day away.

Here We Go Again We’re at the end of 2025.

Let’s pause for a second right here Illustration by @TheBakaArts (source) I don’t think we as a society are collectively talking about AI enough, and it’s time someone made the brave choice of giving this niche topic the attention it deserves.

The Mission: Impossible movie series has been entertaining audiences worldwide for almost thirty years now.

“It takes five hundred shows to get a trick right, and more than a thousand to make it feel good.” - David Copperfield One consequence of spending too much time on the internet is that I have, at some point or the other, skimmed through the Wikipedia pages

I got extremely annoyed at having to accept cookies every single time I visited a new website.

Sidney Lumet was a prolific film director who’s made many American classics, including 12 Angry Men (1957), my favourite film I saw in 2023.

The computer was once a special object that had a designated spot in the house.

In Culture Shock I wrote about my observations about life in the United States as an Indian.

Let’s Do This Congrats on making it to the end of 2024 and thank you if you’ve ever read anything I’ve written.

Gukesh vs Ding Eighteen year old Gukesh D from India recently beat China’s Ding Liren to become the new and youngest ever World Chess Champion.

Something I scribbled literally in the middle of a final exam in college, back in 2016.

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Music Vampire Weekend's Modern Vampires of the City is an album that makes me want to believe in God.

Art by Marc Simonetti Earlier this year I read Frank Herbert’s Dune, the godfather of all science fiction novels.

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Siddhesh Recommends is a series in which I share the most memorable stuff I come across each month.

Siddhesh Recommends is a series in which I share the most memorable stuff I come across each month.