A year, gone

Been a while since I last penned down a post. After the peak in the number of visitors from my previous post, the stats have finally fallen down to baseline. But hey, I’m not writing here just for the sake of seeing more visitors. Well I used to initially, promoting publicity with my blog address [...]

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A new beginning

Lub-dub, lub-dub, lub … dub, lub –––. Beep indicating a flatline. Paddles in hand, positioned, 120V – charge – clear – no pulse, repeat with 160V, charge, clear … Miraculously, and with much difficulty, my blog has finally been brought back to life. After a two-month hiatus, involving much travelling, I am penning down this [...]

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Wordle is beautiful. It is of course besides, the point that it makes beautiful word clouds. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. And why wouldn’t it be? Especially when it is made up of a thousand words. Well, maybe not a thousand, but a hundred perhaps.I’ve more or less been stuck to [...]

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Don’t mistake me saar!

Mistake me for what, a clown?! The clause don’t mistake me is classic Indian English for do not misunderstand what I’ve said or don’t misconstrue what I’ve said, just like other great additions of our nation to the English language – cousin sister, co-brother, prepond, close the tap, and so on. No, my objective is not to flaunt my little [...]

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The value of good research

This post has long been pending. Something or the other kept coming up, not allowing me to pen.. I mean type this post. Research has always fascinated me (I know, that’s derived from the cliché that goes science has always fascinated me - I mean, whom hasn’t it fascinated?!). It was in the past 4-6 months that [...]

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