Hello there, I’m Sachin.
I was born in Muzaffarpur, Bihar.
Family, caste, geography and early assumptions gave me one grammar for understanding the world. Military schooling, movement across different parts of India, professional life across law and finance, and years of reading, internet culture and private curiosities offered another.
Much of adult life, I’ve found, is learning to navigate the tensions between them: hierarchy and egalitarianism, provincial roots and cosmopolitan instincts, institutional discipline and private autonomy.
This space is where I think through those tensions, using personal experience not as autobiography for its own sake, but as a lens for larger questions about law, society, institutions, ambition, culture and modern life.
You’ll find occasional long-form essays, reflections and podcast conversations about law, society and the people who shape both, alongside weekly notes (“Weeknotes”) on illuminating consumption and the odd fascinations that make my life more interesting.
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