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loks

wrote

a home for ideas i find myself repeating and will probably disagree with soon enough. the pile is small. that is not a design system, that is just the truth.

the names keep getting shorter

loki, then lokesh, then loks. a brief history of deleting vowels until a hostname finally fit.

17 Aug 2026names, this site

the cheapest way to read a judge

a three tier classifier for it act cases, and the small realisation that made the backfill about ninety nine percent cheaper.

18 Aug 2026legal tech, models, cost

a sweet with a passport

filing a geographical indication for atreyapuram putharekulu, and sitting between the families who make it and the registry that records it.

18 Aug 2026gi, andhra, not software

a fridge that forgets

the polaroids are the point. the rest of the site is furniture i am still rearranging.

17 Aug 2026guestbook, this site

papers

law school and after, in title case and full sentences, which is how that world prefers to be spoken to. ask me and i will send a copy.

  • The State of Modern Warfare: Palantir, Anduril, and the Indian Military Law Response

    fifteen thousand words in oscola. i built the document programmatically, because formatting that many footnotes by hand is a punishment rather than a skill.

  • Election Petitions: Jurisdiction and Competency of Forums

  • Carriage of Goods in the Digital Age

  • Harappan cultural heritage: the indian and pakistani frameworks compared

  • RTI jurisprudence after Khanapuram Gandaiah