HEY, I’M RK. WELCOME TO MY HEADSPACE.

Not one-
dimensional.
Never bored.

Part systems thinker. Part trail chaser. A head full of ragas, a nose for a good fragrance, and an unreasonable number of questions.

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SYSTEMS THINKER✳RAGA EXPLORER✳TRAIL CHASER✳SCENT SEEKER✳
01 / going with the times

Welcome to my orbit.

No single niche. Just a few obsessions that keep life interesting.

01 / TECHNOLOGY

I have been writing since 2004. Who cares?

You don't care that I have written 500+ articles either.

What you need is answers, insights, perspectives. 
My blog is entirely now behind a plugin you can integrate with your favorite AI assistant (a la ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Kiro), give me a name (call me anything, I won't be offended), and start asking away questions. 
Topics range from Books to Perfumes to Health to Tech and much more. Ask a random question - who knows, it might even give you an answer.

[For the technically oriented] I have exposed my entire blog as a MCP endpoint. My entire body of work of writing is now a tiny knowledge base that lives somewhere in the Cloud. All this for you. No, really, YOU.  

https://mcp.kuppurao.com/mcp

if you need help wiring this up, let me know.
02 / MUSIC

Somewhere
inside a raga.

I can go from jazz to carnatic, qawwal to maqam to namasankeerthanam, Ilayaraja to SD Burman effortllessly. I am open-minded and secular about my music. But the inexplicable returning point - the samam - of my music is raga based music.

RAGAS / RHYTHM / REPEAT
03 / OUTDOORS

Get busy living

Lest you get busy dying.

Being healthy, being fit, being functionally free is a state of consciousness, awareness, and love for yourself.
I spent too many years in the darkness of knowledge, but turned everything around in 2024. I have far too many opinions on this topic - fortunately, most of them are grounded in science and data. Ask me a question on health from your AI assistant.

get busy living, or get busy dying
04 / FRAGRANCE

Memory,
bottled.

I got into the hobby of learning about perfumes, perfumers, the science, and the art of perfumery - the side feature of this being that I have accumulated far too many perfumes. Have lots of opinions - about the industry, about perfumers, perfumes, perfume houses, perfume reviewers and so on. Ask me a question on perfumes from your AI assistant.

FOLLOW YOUR NOSE.
05 / SHOWCASE

Showcase

  • kuppurao.com – this portal.
  • mudhraa.com – a portal I did for a dance school.
  • shop.kuppurao.com – a miniature retail storefront I built entirely on a microservices architecture, with a heavy dose of AI.
NOW GO BUILD
06 / EVERYTHING ELSE

Wait. Is that it?

In the last several years, my own observed pattern of learning is what I would like to call Mandala. You take on a topic, give it your all, go deep into it, get to a place you want to get to, and move on to the next topic. Some of these interests stay with you for longer, and some of them just go away. 

In addition to tech, music, health, and perfumes, I also write on topics like people, behaviors, economics, finance etc. 

STILL ASKING. STILL LEARNING. ↗
RK.ITS WHAT MAKES A BRAND THE BRAND.
02 / LESS BIO. MORE ME.

I don’t have a personal brand.
I have a lot of interests.

This is where they get to coexist. The analytical and the artistic. The screen time and the trail time. The question that takes five minutes—and the one that sends me down a three-hour rabbit hole.

A small corner of the internet, with a little more of me in it.

03 / GOOD CONVERSATIONS WELCOME

Let’s compare
notes. Hit me up.

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