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The Purulia Diaries - Part 5
This is the last post of the Purulia Diaries Series - Kolkata Comes up Next! The final stop of the night was Purni Pishi - this is a...
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Mar 5, 20236 min read
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The Purulia Diaries - Part 4
The road was rough, and the pitch blackness of the night only offered visibility up to only 20 meters even with the headlights. We were...
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Mar 5, 20236 min read
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The Purulia Diaries - Part 3
I was fiddling in the front seat with Dadabhai's cane, when we first came to our first stop - Kotshila a small town even more western...
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Mar 5, 20236 min read
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The Purulia Diaries - Part 2
The piercing dawn sun beams through the gaps of the curtains broke my sleep, and I got up wearily. The jet lag was taking hold, and the...
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Mar 5, 20235 min read
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The Purulia Diaries -Part 1
Note: This is part of a series of posts on my recent travel to India from December 19, 2022-January 1st, 2023. The bump in the car woke...
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Jan 29, 20236 min read
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On Zugzwang
Zugzwang, is a German Word, noting a position in chess where the position on the board where one player is at a disadvantage because they...
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Oct 31, 20226 min read
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On Random Access Memories
Lately, I have been listening to Daft Punk - and in my autoplay, their 2014 Grammy Award winning album Random Access Memories come up....
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Jul 18, 20223 min read
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Tales from Quarantine (Days 1-2)
So to summarize, in the last week, I jumped from a boat a few hundred meters from Alcatraz, swam across the bay to SF, biked 18 miles...
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Jun 15, 20222 min read
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On Quals
Ahhh - its been a while since I posted - gonna have to fix this at some point given that I no longer update biweekly. But recently, I...
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May 19, 20224 min read
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On the purpose of my research
As quals get closer (have them next month!) - meetings with my advisor, M, gets more frequent as we hash out the research presentation,...
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Apr 10, 20223 min read
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On the Dark Knight
Its 2022, and another Batman film is here - this time Robert Pattinson, Twilight's infamous Sparkly Vampire, dons the suit of the caped...
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Mar 12, 20227 min read
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On another birthday
Its been a long while... hello everyone! Life has marched on relentlessly, with loss, wins, and heartbreak. Today, I could talk about the...
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Feb 21, 20223 min read
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On Lose Yourself
You better lose yourself in the music, the moment It's been a while since I have updated, some 20+ weeks have passed - so many things...
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Jul 5, 20215 min read
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On Carpenters and Joan Baez
One of the interesting things about my household is that the majority of the songs that were played were from the 60s,70s and 80s -...
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Apr 12, 20212 min read
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On Uncertainty (Part 3)
This is the final blog post on uncertainty. I didn't intend it to be this long - so many things have happened in quick succession that it...
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Mar 8, 20214 min read
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On Uncertainty (Part 2)
On of my favourite books that I have ever read is The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. Partially because it was situated...
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Mar 8, 20214 min read
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On Uncertainty (Part 1)
This post is a part of a two part series I am going to do. It's been almost a month since my last update! A lot of things have happened...
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Feb 23, 20215 min read
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On choosing my Thesis Lab
Woohoo - the quarter is barely underway, and I am swamped with work - maybe taking 3 classes was not a good idea? ;) The classes are...
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Jan 26, 20212 min read
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On my Indian identity
What does it mean to be Indian? - I definitely do not know. The first time I was aware of me being an Indian in America came in filling...
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Jan 14, 20214 min read
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On starting a new quarter and new goals
Well, I am back at Stanford after a long Winter Break, but still in quarantine! Winter Break was fun, spent a lot of time bear hugging my...
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Jan 11, 20213 min read
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