Aug 2, 2022Experience UnapologeticallyWhat I’ve learnt from the non-work side of college these last few years can be distilled into one takeaway: choose and live experiences that you are unapologetic about. These can unfold in many different ways, and can range in their outcome from the sublime to the awful. …Travel4 min readTravel4 min read
Jan 9, 2022Lament for KGP, 4 am#shortpost | 17th April, 2021 It’s difficult to quantify love for a place; but this might come close. In an instant being able to retrace the path you take from the flyover to main gate. Every sight, every step and turn, down to the metre. The yellow and black by…Iit2 min readIit2 min read
Mar 4, 2021Soliloquy by Sleeper Train“I like traveling on a train, it calms me down; I can focus on anything, my favourite thoughts; like watching the landscape, and fading out” — from the song ‘Tenderloin’ by Tilbury Kerala has a unique beauty at night. The thick ridges of tree cover reflecting the darkness of the…India4 min readIndia4 min read
Oct 2, 2020Phoning HomePhoning home with the last few light rays of the day 💰India3 min readIndia3 min read
Aug 12, 2020Heading down South : ISRO images the Lunar South PoleWritten for IIT Tech Ambit, Oct 9, 2019 — Exciting news coming this week from the South Pole of the moon! Unfortunately, we don’t have correspondents posted in that particular outpost, but we do have the next best thing — our very own ISRO. While a lot of national interest went into the excruciatingly close failure of the Vikram…Space3 min readSpace3 min read
Aug 12, 2020Aluminium Matrix Hybrid Composites — big words, big on potentialWritten for IIT Tech Ambit, Sep 26 2019 — Power Professor couple Siddhartha Das and Karabi Das, partners in crime at the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, have been at it again. In conjunction with their PhD. student, Jamuna Sethi, the trio recently prepared a thermally stable Aluminium matrix hybrid composite, that paves the way for…India3 min readIndia3 min read
Aug 12, 2020A drug delivery gel that could be a vaccine for California’s wildfiresOct 30th, 2019 — Materials scientists often stumble upon wildly different applications for materials they have created. Eric Appel, a professor at the Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Stanford University found this out to his pleasant surprise, in a conversation with his brother in law, a former firefighter in Hawaii. When you get…California3 min readCalifornia3 min read
Jul 25, 2020Code for the Stars: Programming the world’s largest telescopeAs featured in IIT Tech Ambit — May 2020 Issue The Universe is cloaked in mystery. Galaxies collide and Stars form and die, oblivious to human existence. Our attempts to understand it require pushing the boundaries of what our science is capable of. Scientific achievements and technological innovations tend to…Space11 min readSpace11 min read
Jul 17, 2020The State of Hyperloop: IIIPart 3: Hyperloop in India: the race to flaunt the future, and whether it makes sense — A three-part exploration into the technology that promises to revolutionise the world Part 1: Elon Musk and Beating Physics: how Hyperloop came to be Part 2: Team Avishkar from IIT Madras making waves globally: can student teams pioneer technology as important as this? Part 3: Hyperloop in India: the race…India4 min readIndia4 min read
Jul 14, 2020The State of Hyperloop: IIPart 2: Team Avishkar from IIT Madras making waves globally: can student teams pioneer technology as important as this? — A three-part exploration into the technology that promises to revolutionise the world Part 1: Elon Musk and Beating Physics: how Hyperloop came to be Part 2: Team Avishkar from IIT Madras making waves globally: can student teams pioneer technology as important as this? Part 3: Hyperloop in India: the race…Hyperloop8 min readHyperloop8 min read
