Volume IV
Disconnected Hearts: Technology and Intimacy
A short working paper on how automation, economic precarity, and digital mediation reshape intimacy, identity, and demographic life.
Read the summary →Independent media & research
Observe the system.
Question the frame.
Independent Observer is a research and essay project by Siddhartha Harsh Wardhan. Explore how power, work and technology shape everyday life, with sources you can check.
Selected reading
Three places to begin.
These are summaries of working papers. Each page explains its sources and limitations.
Volume IV
The Double Tax on Time: Gender, Work and Care
A working paper examining how biological timing, career structures, caregiving policy, and demographic economics interact.
Read the summary →Volume III
The Wardhan Tax Doctrine: Time and Tax Relief
Explore a working-paper proposal to recognize time spent building skills through tax relief, with questions about eligibility, reporting and fairness.
Read the summary →Listen & watch
History Across the Volumes
Four audio essays on power, memory, work, and capability.
The four-volume project
One method. Four connected questions.
Choose a volume to enter the research. The volumes remain in development.