I’m the author of *Famous Last Questions —* out now, from Aleph Book Company.
India’s ‘90s kids grew up in an offline world and graduated to one that’s seemingly always on fire. Famous Last Questions is for the generation caught between achievement and burnout, privilege and guilt, modernity and tradition, authenticity and performance.
In a desperate attempt to understand why I am the way I am—the ‘ideal’ overachieving ‘90s kid, but also the secret black sheep, flouting the norms I was always living by—I ended up with even more questions, unravelling the entire idea of a “self”, and the socio-political machinery that had created mine:
“***Famous Last Questions*** plays with the boundaries of memoir, reportage, and research, unburdened by the need for absolute answers. From describing life in Big Tech to days spent in Vipassana meditation, this is a book unafraid of contradictions, a heartfelt chronicle of the ‘modern’ Indian’s journey from needing to achieve everything to searching for wholeness. Ramachandran is both the heroine and anti-heroine of this story—which, ultimately, is the story of us all.”
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I'm also the writer behind the ‘The Sanjana Effect’, the viral essay on how a generation of Indian girls was named after Aishwarya Rai, aka 'Sanju', in the iconic 1993 Pepsi ad.
Our parents hoped we would inherit Rai’s beauty, success, and elusive mix of modernity and tradition, if we were given her name from a cola ad.
My writings combine a career in marketing/business, science/tech, along with my forever introspective and analytical gaze. Essays appear in The Caravan, ThePrint, VICE, NDTV, Fifty Two, and other Indian and international publications.