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The Dawn of a New Space Age

The endless expanse we call Space has beckoned us for eternity, and today that pull is greater than it has ever been before, not because our interest in space has increased, but because new technology has enabled us to edge nearer to becoming an interplanetary species. For millennia we have searched the stars for our […]

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What makes us, us?

Humanity has pondered about this for as long as we have been capable of conscious thought. Even you will probably dwell on understanding the meaning of life and have, what woke Gen-Z calls, an ‘Existential Crisis’ at least a few times here during your stay on Earth. What makes me, who I am? Many believe […]

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Drinks Review

Review on some drinks I have consumed over the last few months.

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India’s History through Demographic Maps I Made Instead of Studying

Distribution of Hindus in India 2. Distribution of Muslims in India There’s a lot you can tell about the subcontinent’s history from this particular map: Partition in the West v/s the East: The states of former Greater Punjab in the Northwest have a very low proportion of Muslims as cross-migration along the border of the […]

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An Assessment of Economic Development based on Indian State Maps.

As of April 2020, these are the political subdivisions in India(28 states, 8 Union Territories). Prior to independence, India was divided the same way Africa or the Middle East were by colonial powers-arbitrarily, disregarding pre-existing cultural and linguistic disparities in regions. The newly formed Indian government at the time was quick to realise that if […]

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Universities in India

Distribution of the top 100 universities in India

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मराठा पाल- Maratha Pal

A model of the largest ship from the medieval Maratha Navy.

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Temple in Electronics Market

SP Road, Bengaluru: My happy place is this narrow street, with two hours and two thousand rupees to spare.

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Writing

E n t r o p y

/ˈɛntrəpi/

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2019 in 10 Photos

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Purpose

/ˈpəːpəs/

the reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists.

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Writing

Ahmedabad: The City That Changed My Life (I think)

Maybe it was the constant nudging from the friends and family. Maybe it was the immense sense of satisfaction I’d get every time I finished a project. Maybe it was the exclusivity of the field itself. From early 2018 to mid 2019, I was dead set in my ‘choice’ that I was going to do […]

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Why I Started Teaching

1,368,899,454 As I am writing this, there are one billion, three hundred and sixty eight million, eight hundred and ninety nine thousand, four hundred and fifty four people residing in India(according to the UN’s estimates). With so many people, you’d expect a satisfyingly large economy to support the populace; well, I did and my disappointment […]

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Peacocks of Tirwa

Peacocks pictured at the palace of the Raja of the former Princely State Tirwa.