What's The Point?

I can’t tell my story without first telling you another story.

We need to talk about The Point!, an animated film based on Harry Nilsson’s concept album. The story is simple: in a land where everyone must have a literal point on their head, and where everything must have a “point,” a round-headed boy named Oblio is banished for being “pointless.” Sent into the Pointless Forest with his dog, Arrow, he discovers that everything has a point even there...just not always the one that fits a template.

Why this fable, and why here? Because it mirrors the way I have moved through life, not without purpose but without forcing a single fixed definition too early. Like Oblio, I have found meaning in my winding path: in following questions, in carrying ideas across different worlds, in acquiring new skills, and in shaping my point through time and practice. Without this simple parable as a key, the story of who I am, and what Inklet Lab is and is becoming, cannot be fully understood.

(tl;dr)

I’ve been a computer science graduate, a civil services aspirant, and most recently an economics post-graduate.

I’m a curious student at heart, always ready to pick up new tools, ideas, and ways of thinking. I stretch, adapt, and do whatever it takes to work through the problems in front of me.

Born and raised in Hyderabad, shaped significantly by my years in Delhi.

So, what is this place? It’s two things: my personal corner of the web, and the seedling of a larger idea called Inklet Lab.

My Corner of the Web

At its core, this is my personal website. It gives a glimpse of my work, thinking, and experiments in connecting the dots across different fields and a standing invitation for conversation.

The Seedling of Inklet Lab

Inklet Lab is the most exciting, and least defined, part of this journey. The vision is to build an ecosystem where ideas meet, a place to find your lab partner. Think of it as a “Tinder for ideas”, a space where people can both plant and pick up sparks.

Ideas here don’t have to fit into one box. They can come from anywhere: art, science, design, philosophy, policy, education, technology, or even just a stray thought from daily life.

If you have an idea, you can post it and and look for a lab partner, someone who wants to pick it up, test it, and shape it with you. If you’re browsing, you can explore ideas left by others and become their lab partner, jumping in where your curiosity or skills connect.

But Inklet Lab is meant to be more than just a matchmaking board. The larger vision is to create an ecosystem, a kind of lab beyond the metaphor; where collaborations don’t just spark but are supported. A space with the tools, conversations, and shared energy needed to take ideas further than any one person could alone.

Unlike an incubator, there are no rigid tracks, no pressure to “scale.” This is not about turning every idea into a startup. It's about giving ideas of all kinds a place to breathe, play, and evolve with the right partners.

Right now, Inklet Lab is just a seedling, an experiment I’m nurturing through this site. But the vision is clear: a living lab where ideas find partners, and partners find the space to build.

The need for this space came from two directions.

First, after finishing my master’s and stepping into the job market, I wanted a place to showcase myself beyond a neat CV or LinkedIn line. Something that felt less like a résumé and more like an extension of who I am; a glimpse of my capabilities, curiosities, and the ways I approach problems.

Second, the Inklet Lab idead itself. The idea of building an ecosystem for cross-pollination—needed a ground to grow. A space where rough drafts, false starts, and half-formed sparks could live alongside finished work.

In that spirit, this website is an artifact of its own philosophy: a small, handcrafted corner of the internet. It was built not with complex frameworks or heavy machinery, but with the fundamental tools of the web. The structure is plain HTML, the styling is done with Tailwind CSS and traditional CSS, and the interactive is powered by vanilla JavaScript.

Much of this website is vibe coded, but never carelessly. The design was carefully shaped, with each choice guided by instinct as much as intention. For readers curious about how I see vibe coding, I find myself aligning closely with the reflections shared here.

Since this site is an extension of myself, most elements (even the smallest ones) carry some form of inspiration or meta-reference. A not so obvious example would be the advertising posters on "The dispatch” page nod to accounts Don Draper handled in Mad Men and a very obvious example would be the dramatic title on "The Balcony” page mirrors the iconic “Superstar” opening in Rajinikanth films. Almost every corner has its own quiet nod to a story, a world, or an aesthetic that shaped me.

This lab has a few different rooms; here’s a map to help you get around:

Updated on September 19th 2025, from my home in Hyderabad, India.

After years of being away (studying, and hustling since 2014), with a short pandemic return in between, I’m back home. For the first time in a long time, I’m spending unhurried days with my parents.

mornings on the court

Most mornings start with two hours of badminton with my father and his friends. It’s become a ritual.

Learning and Exploration

I’ve been sharpening my coding skills (especially in Python), studying logic, math, and statistics, and strengthening my foundations in economics. At the same time, I’m exploring generative art with p5.js.

building this site and the idea of Inklet Lab

This website itself is one of my main projects. Alongside the site, I’m sketching out Inklet Lab

working and applying

I’m part of a Founder’s Office fellowship while also going through the cycles of applying for jobs: resumes, interviews, and all the shebang.

reading

Currently reading Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture Wae by Ash Sarkar.

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This is my “map for now.” It will change, redraw itself, and maybe look unrecognizable a few months down the line. That’s part of the adventure.