THE ALTERNATE ENTRANCE / EST. ALWAYS CURIOUS

Follow the
interesting
thing.

An interactive side door to Sahil Tayal’s writing, behavioural inquiries and peculiar little experiments. Choose a question; see where it takes you.

Writer, independent researcher, creative technologist and perfumer in New Delhi.

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NO CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE REQUIRED.
06 frequencies24 questions12 field practicesOne curious life. No leaderboard.
CURIOUS IS A DIRECTION ✳ NOT A RANK ✳ CURIOUS IS A DIRECTION ✳ NOT A RANK ✳

01 / THE DOORWAYS

Six ways in.

Each frequency is a real cluster of connected work. The links come from the Sahilverse Live Domain Atlas, rather than an invented portfolio.

FREQUENCY / 01

Behaviour.

Why do people do what they do?

Between the person we imagine and the action we manage, there is context, friction and an unfinished explanation.

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FREQUENCY / 03

Making.

Can an idea become a place?

These browser experiments turn arguments, metaphors and odd intuitions into objects you can explore.

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FREQUENCY / 04

Learning.

What is growth without a scoreboard?

Education can be rigorous without compressing a person's curiosity or capability into one grade.

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FREQUENCY / 05

Meaning.

What counts as a life well lived?

Long essays, inconvenient questions and gentler ways of measuring a human life.

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FREQUENCY / 06

Senses.

What if thought had a scent?

Music, fragrance and aesthetic experiments treat feeling as a form of inquiry, not as a verdict.

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02 / THE ORBIT FINDER

Don't know
where to begin?

Three small choices. No psychometrics, no typecast identity, no results stored. The result is a reading route, not a personality verdict.

QUESTION 01 / 03

Which curiosity has your attention?

03 / THE QUESTION ENGINE

A good question
is a door.

Twenty-four prompts across the six frequencies. Choose one, sit with it, write privately if it helps. Your words stay in this browser.

No account · no analytics · no requests carrying your note · optional device-only storage
QUESTION 01 / 24BEHAVIOUR
What did I intend to do, and what actually happened?

Notes are private and aren't saved unless you choose to save them.

THE OTHER ORBIT / 2026AN
UNUSUAL
FIELD
MANUAL✳12 practices · 24 related questions · six frequencies

04 / SOMETHING TO KEEP

Take the
long way.

A substantive, printable field manual: twelve short exercises for thinking about behaviour, reciprocity, making, learning, meaning and the senses. Each practice points back to a specific question and related project.

Not a certificate, self-help prescription or substitute for evidence. A companion for asking better questions.

Download the Field Manual

PDF · no sign-in · ready for offline use

Inside the manual

  1. Describe an act, not an identity
  2. Replace mind-reading with observation
  3. Prototype the smallest useful thing
  4. Audit your applause

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05 / NOTES FROM THE ATLAS

Recently observed.

These are dates when the connected domain atlas detected changes, not claimed launch or publication dates.

25 Oct 2026 · Atlas change detected

Good Company

Relationships, consent and relational intelligence.

25 Oct 2026 · Atlas change detected

Madness

A creative inquiry into who gets to define normal.

Source: connected Sahilverse Live Domain Atlas · checked 26 Oct 2026 · three examples, not a complete activity feed.

06 / COLOPHON & LIMITS

Made of
questions.

This side entrance was made with independent writing, an evolving domain atlas and a healthy suspicion of turning people into metrics. It is an editorial navigation instrument, not an automated assessment.

Built with plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript, no third-party libraries, fonts, tracking pixels or external APIs. The question links are shareable; your private notes are not. The orbit finder runs on transparent, deterministic rules. The optional ambient sound is synthesized in your browser and defaults to off.

How are the orbit-finder results chosen?

Each of the three responses gives a vote to one of the six frequencies. The route with the most votes is shown; ties follow the order of your first chosen response. The process is editorial, not scientific or predictive.

What does the site store?

If you press “Save on this device,” it stores your field notes in your browser’s localStorage, keyed to the question ID. No data is transmitted to Sahil or a third party by this page. Clearing browser data may erase it. The sound toggle and animations don't store your identity.

Background & education ↗Editorial method ↗Selected project atlas ↗

THE BIGGER UNIVERSE IS NEXT DOOR

There's more
out there.✳

The Other Orbit is a side entrance. The complete catalogue and evolving work live at the main site.

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