TRM Deep-Dives
India's Emotions Are AI's New Raw Material
It is past midnight in a small flat in Kanpur or a shared room in Gurugram. Someone is typing into their phone. They are not typing a Google search or a WhatsApp message, but a confession, a breakup text, or a message to a difficult boss. The reply arrives in the blink of an eye. It feels warm, patient, and completely non-judgmental. It sounds like a healing therapist, right? But there is something different about this one. This confession does not simply disappear. It gets stored, broken into tokens, and becomes part of the data that improves future AI models. Nobody in San Francisco knows this person’s name. But together, millions of conversations reveal something valuable. They show exactly how a heartbroken twenty-two-year-old in a Tier-2 Indian city talks about grief at one in the morning.
Deep Dive
Engineering the Back-End of Life
What is common between Avatar and Captain America? One is a cinematic marvel and the other is from the marvel cinematic universe. But other than this, they also have one thing in common. Bioengineering.
For most of my life, biotechnology meant one thing: pharmaceuticals. It was sterile labs, ten-year drug discovery cycles, and a pill you swallow when things go wrong. And for decades, that definition was perfectly fine.
But the times and my knowledge as a student of bioengineering made this definition obsolete.
Vrutika Rao
2026-07-17
Deep Dive
The Foundery Isn’t Building Founders. It’s Manufacturing Them
Yesterday I watched a 90 minute podcast where Nikhil Kamath talked about The Foundery. I then spent the next 90 minutes wondering why I have so much free time to watch something like that, just to conclude that I could turn it into an article and call the day productive.
So Foundery. What initially feels like three kind and generous people with capitalistic success and ample free time coming together to “remove the struggle” from entrepreneurship. Let’s put them under a microscope, shall we?
Amoghsiddhu
2026-07-13
Deep Dive
Machines of Loving Grace, Humans of Failing Trust
Every technological revolution in history eventually collides with the same question: can human institutions evolve as fast as human intelligence?
Dario Amodei wrote an excellent essay titled Machines of Loving Grace in which he goes on to paint a beautiful world 5-10 years after the powerful AI has been built. He describes a powerful AI as a country of geniuses in a data centre, which is smarter than a Nobel Prize winner across most relevant fields, such as biology, programming, and math. He expects that such an AI will help us speed up research across all the relevant domains by at least 10X, i.e., we can have 100 years of progress in the next 5-10 years after such an AI is built.
Sanidhya Agarwal
2026-07-10
Deep Dive
Building Sovereign AI, Powered by AWS Credits
December 2022 was the time when work became easy, and ChatGPT first entered our lives. I was in college, and we had just begun exploring the tool. I remembered asking my friend, “Is this available on the Play Store?” (Believe me, it was just an online tool back then).
But soon newspapers started talking about a new invention that interacts with you. Experts described it as something fundamentally different and never seen before. Back then, even having the tool complete simple tasks such as writing a story or presenting structured information felt extraordinary.
Sanidhya Agarwal
2026-07-06
Deep Dive
The Dumbest Thing India Is Doing Right Now Might Be Its Smartest Bet.
I was two hours into Interstellar last weekend, the wormhole scene, the one where humanity escapes a dying Earth by slipping through a hole in spacetime punched open by beings who have transcended three dimensions, when it hit me. Not the profundity of the film. Something much more uncomfortable.
Bollywood doesn’t make movies like this. And before you reach for the obvious explanations, budget, technical know-how, the right director, let me stop you. We have all of those. S.S. Rajamouli built a mythological epic that grossed over $120 million worldwide on pure spectacle.
So, What is the Real Problem?
The real problem is imagination. Even if someone...
Amoghsiddhu
2026-07-01
Deep Dive
Where is India’s Palantir?
Yesterday I was trying to stalk my ex’s Insta account. I looked at the recent posts - mostly individual and some with her female friends, whom I already knew. I looked at the account of one of her best friends to get a clue from there. Still, nothing was found. After half an hour, I gave up and went back to my doomscrolling session. I liked a few reels that reverberated with my broken heart and casually gave Zucky my emotional data. While scrolling, I found a few reels liked by her, which said, “Will he ever come back?” I jumped on my bed. This was the sign I was looking for, and the algorithm God provided me with the right data to give her a call in the evening.
Sanidhya Agarwal
2026-06-29
Deep Dive
Mine Your Own Business
India imports everything it cannot live without, from countries it cannot entirely trust, through sea lanes it does not control. Here is what happens next.
You remember the LPG crisis, right? For a couple of weeks, LPG cylinders became the most valuable things in the county, every restaurant was using everything except gas to cook meals and memes of LPG shortage flooded instagram.
That is not bad luck. That is structural dependency, experienced in a kitchen.
Now multiply that feeling by 1.4 billion people, replace the LPG cylinder with oil, semiconductors, antibiotics, and the minerals inside every EV battery and missile guidance system the country is trying to build, and you have a fairly accurate picture of where India’s economy sits in 2026.
Amoghsiddhu
2026-06-09