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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Lately, I have been listening to Daft Punk - and in my autoplay, their 2014 Grammy Award winning album Random Access Memories come up....

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...

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...

As quals get closer (have them next month!) - meetings with my advisor, M, gets more frequent as we hash out the research presentation,...

Its 2022, and another Batman film is here - this time Robert Pattinson, Twilight's infamous Sparkly Vampire, dons the suit of the caped...

Its been a long while... hello everyone! Life has marched on relentlessly, with loss, wins, and heartbreak. Today, I could talk about the...

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...

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 -...

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...

On of my favourite books that I have ever read is The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. Partially because it was situated...

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...

Woohoo - the quarter is barely underway, and I am swamped with work - maybe taking 3 classes was not a good idea? ;) The classes are...

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...

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...