Karthik K Raman
I write about devotion, vocation, and the long arc of an examined life. The Maximalist Manifesto is the project I have been circling, in one form or another, for most of my adult years — a slow archive of arguments made through lives, drawn from the classical and Indic traditions and from the figures of our own century who have insisted, in their different ways, that a serious life is still possible.
I write slowly. I publish dossiers when they are ready, and never sooner. The book that the dossiers are quietly building toward arrives in 2026.
I am not interested in productivity hacks, the discourse, or the optimisation of the self as though it were a small business. I am interested in the older questions — what one was built for, what one owes the people one loves, what survives when the ambition cools. The dossiers are notes toward those questions, written in the open.
Before this, I built and sold a company, worked at the intersection of product and marketing for a decade, studied at IIT, and earned a CFA charter. None of which matters here, except that it means I came to writing after doing the other things first.
If something here is useful to you, I would rather hear it than be told you liked it. The address below is real, and I read what is sent to it.