<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Vikas Agrawal</title><link>https://vikasagrawal.pages.dev</link><description>Essays, texture art, charcoal and pen drawings, travel dispatches and reading notes from Vikas Agrawal, an AI operator, writer and maker. From Jaipur, living in Hyderabad.</description><item><title>The Cost Nobody Shows You</title><link>https://vikasagrawal.pages.dev/essays/the-cost-nobody-shows-you/</link><guid>https://vikasagrawal.pages.dev/essays/the-cost-nobody-shows-you/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>The moving goalpost of ambition, and what quietly had to die in private so that version of you could exist.</description></item><item><title>The Burden of the Reliable</title><link>https://vikasagrawal.pages.dev/essays/the-burden-of-the-reliable/</link><guid>https://vikasagrawal.pages.dev/essays/the-burden-of-the-reliable/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>The silent tax of being the one who always has things together.</description></item></channel></rss>