Saral Verma

The blog · September 2026

Data scientist, engineer, economist.
Delhi, India.

Science, half-finished projects, and ideas that seemed great at 2am.

01 / Culture

A Man in Rain

Rain does not mean sadness. It means uncertainty. On weather, mood, and why an unreadable figure stays with you.

20 Jun 2026 · 12 min read

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04 / Science

The Walls Have Been Talking

On color, light, green spaces, and the invisible design of your emotional life.

9 Jun 2026 · 9 min read

05 / Culture

Good at Looking Good

On moral performance, the psychology of public correction, and why doing visible small things can replace doing meaningful large ones.

7 Jun 2026 · 11 min read

08 / Work

AI Won't Replace You. Until It Does.

The limit is not intelligence. It is judgment. On AI, junior hiring, and what becomes valuable when intelligence gets cheap.

30 May 2026 · 8 min read

09 / Philosophy

Detachment in an Age of Metrics

Siddhartha left a life that was already winning. On late-night self-audits, Govinda's tragedy, and what we count instead of seeking.

30 May 2026 · 8 min read

11 / Psychology

Loud Inside

The inside of a quiet person's head is not quiet. On introversion, longer neural pathways, and why silence is a different kind of presence.

30 Jul 2026 · 8 min read

12 / Science

Voices Inside the Head

What happens to the brain — and to love — when you live in more than one language.

26 Jul 2026 · 7 min read

13 / Culture

you are still a kid

Calling someone a kid is not a description. It is a power move. On gerontocracy, freedom, and the first generation with the language to push back.

25 Jul 2026 · 8 min read

Currently building

SkyStory looks up for you.

A flight tracker inverted: the sky sends the notification first, then writes a small story about the machine passing over your head.

Letters

If an essay made you think, the next one might too.

Occasional notes on science, psychology, and the experiments I should probably not be running at 2am. No growth hacks. No weekly guilt.

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