Stories and ideas about the systems that shape us.
Fiction, essays and conversations about memory, technology, power, organisations and human choice.
I write across two worlds: fiction that places people inside difficult choices, and essays drawn from technology, banking, transformation and the institutions that quietly influence modern life.
Recent writing
Selected writing on technology, human behaviour and the systems that shape everyday choices.
- Reinforced Reality: How AI Learns Us Faster Than We Learn ItA learner’s journey from AI enthusiasm to ethical awareness I have always believed in AI’s power to transform how we live and work. It helps…
- India is winning wars on the ground, but losing the war of narratives.From CAATSA pressure to biased global media, the West and China benefit when India stays silent. It’s time for India to combine hard power with…
Stories shaped by a life spent observing systems.
TE Aravind is an Indian author based in Singapore. More than two decades across banking, data, finance, tax and transformation have given him a close view of how systems, incentives and technology influence people and organisations.
His fiction explores the same questions through memory, identity, ambition, relationships and power. His blogs and essays bring those questions back into the real world of AI, transformation, banking and decision-making.
The professional world explains how systems are built. Fiction asks what those systems do to people.