Tapan ParikhDeshI want the muck, and the ruck, and the ruck. The noise, the dust, the rust, the must. I want to see it all. I want to live within it.1 min read·Mar 28, 2024----
Tapan ParikhChasing Innovation and Geek Heresy: Two Book Reviews for the Price of OneEverybody wants to write about India. Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Adam Smith were all deeply influenced by the experiences they had with…16 min read·Mar 14, 2024--1--1
Tapan ParikhSelf-reflection after September 11thSunday, September 23, 2001 7:32 PM10 min read·Jan 31, 2024----
Tapan Parikha cold windMy heart bleeds, as I yearn for a place that was never mine, and that will never remember me, except as a patch of brown on a white sky.1 min read·Jul 14, 2022----
Tapan Parikhno futureAll the good guys are gone All our heroes dead and buried We live on as ghosts amongst monsters who eat our children and devour our dreams…1 min read·Jul 14, 2022----
Tapan ParikhQuestions for a Broken WorldWhat do you say when you look out upon a broken world, filled with a broken people and their broken promises, devoid of hope, optimism and…3 min read·Jul 14, 2022----
Tapan ParikhAmerica the BeautifulWhen I was growing up, America was still a compelling idea. A place where anything was possible, with unimaginable entertainments and…4 min read·Jul 14, 2022----
Tapan ParikhParty Like its 2021Everything is going to get better! We only need to work together and believe! After all, aren’t the injustices of the past only momentary…4 min read·Jul 14, 2022----
Tapan ParikhThe End of ICTD?As I watched chaos unfold at the Kabul airport last week, I couldn’t help but imagine that some of those people caught up in the panic —…6 min read·Aug 22, 2021--1--1
Tapan ParikhOn Destruction in Design(This piece is co-written with my student Samar Sabie. It also appears in n the December 2020 issue of ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society…7 min read·Jan 15, 2021----