Sun, 23 Mar 2025
पहला ब्लोग हिन्दी में
मै बहुत दिनो से सोच रहा था कि अपनी बोलचाल की भाषा (हिन्दी) मे भी ब्लोग लिखुँ। इस के दो कारण हैं: पहला यह कि मेरे ज्यादातर मित्र और परिवार अँग्रेजी भाषा जानते तो है परन्तु उनकी अँग्रजी भाषा की समझ सीमित है। दुसरा कारण यह है की व्यक्ति जिस भाषा के वातावरण मे बडा होता है उस भाषा मे ज्यादा आसानी से अपनी भावनाएँ व्यक्त कर पाता है।
यह शायद कुछ लोगो को कटाक्ष जैसा लगे--मुख्यत: जो स्वयं को अँग्रेजी भाषा मे निपुण मानते है--परन्तु मेरे अनुभव के अनुसार यह बहुत सामान्य है कि किसी व्यक्ति कि पकड सबसे अधिक उसकी मात्र भाषा पर ही होती है। इतने वर्षौ के अनुभव के बाद--जिनमे मैने कई अँग्रेजी पुस्तके (काव्यातक व वैञानिक) पढी, वैञानिक पत्र पढे और अन्तत: १०० पेज की ऎक पी॰एच॰डी॰ थिसिस भी लिखी--मैने पाया कि मैं अँग्रेजी मे उतनी गहराई मे भावनाऎं नही अनुभव कर पाता जितना की मैं हिन्दी में कर सकता हुँ।
आप सोच सकते है कि यह शायद मेरे स्वयं के अभ्यास मे कमी के कारण है परन्तु इतने देशों में घुमने और विभिन्न भाषाओं को बोलने वाले लोगो से मिलने के बाद मुझे लगता है कि मात्र भाषा वाला तर्क सार्वभौमिक है। इसलिए युरोप के लोग अँग्रेजी जानने के बाद भी अपनी मात्र भाषा मे ही लिखते और पढते हैं। मेरे स्वयं के मित्र--जो मुख्यत: पोलैंड, ईटली और फ्राँस से है--अँग्रेजी पुस्तको कि जगह अपनी मात्र भाषा मे लिखी पुस्तके पढतें हैं।
लिखने के सम्बन्ध मे भी मै कह सकता हुँ की अँग्रेजी मे थिसिस लिखना हिन्दी मे लिखने से कठिन कार्य था। मेरे ज्यादातर युरोपियन मित्रों ने भी थिसिस अपनी मात्र भाषाओं मे ही लिखी। तब मैने हिन्दी मे थिसिस लिखने की संभावनाओ को बहुत याद किया।
अन्तत: मै यही कह सकता हुँ कि विभिन्न भाषाओं का ञान नई संभावनाऐ पैदा करता है, अन्य सभ्यताओ को जानने का मौका प्रदान करता है परन्तु किसी को छोटा या बडा नही बनाता ।
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Sat, 22 Mar 2025
Hiking in the Kabaty forest
I have mentioned earlier in a post about the beauty of Warsaw spring, and today we--me, my wifey, and my buddy Michał--went to explore a forest known as Kabaty, which is a natural reserve at the vicinity of Southern Warsaw. We have been planning since yesterday to go to Kabaty with a group. But that group never replied to Michał on messenger--it could be because he asked them a bit late. So this morning, we decided to go on our own. First, Michał came to our place to pick us up in his car, and then we went together to the forest.
The experience in nature was--and always is--beyond words. We were surrounded by so many trees (mostly without leaves), among which a few have fallen, completely de-rooted. We immediately started walking on them. It was a lot of fun to do log-crossing. Sometimes, I was feeling scared to fall down, but most of the time, it wasn't that deep below--maybe a meter only. We crossed as many log bridges as possible. We also spotted a lot of hard mushrooms--like a rock--on the trunk of these trees.
Among these trees, there were also fallen leaves, covering the whole ground. While walking through this scenery, we were crushing these leaves with each step, which was making sounds 'Swshhh… Mfffshh…'. My wife was in a forest for the first time, so she was following us in our adventures, but with a bit of precaution. She seems to be enjoying her time in nature, listening to birds singing and trying to spot the birds. We were also reading the signs about the variety of wild animals that live in this forest.
So we had a blasting Saturday :). Not like a party blast but a natural blast.
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Tue, 18 Mar 2025
Dealing with criticism
This is a particularly hard topic because most of us are not very good at dealing with any kind of criticism. The reason for this could vary from person to person, but in my case, it was a lack of awareness. I guess even my parents were completely unaware of the effect of criticism. Hence, blaming them for not teaching me is pointless. Nevertheless, the result was I grew up listening to critical remarks from most of my social connections, including teachers, parents, friends, and sometimes even strangers. Those remarks were often made either with a sarcastic tone or confrontation. Although I believe that most of those remarks were naive and with good intentions, their effect was not harmless. I had very low self-esteem with constant doubts in my ability to do anything and feeling like a complete looser. Even as an adult, I struggle to believe that I am good at anything.
The mind usually sees criticism as an attack--imagine someone criticizes your decision to run from a lion or face it--which could result in bitter arguments, aggression, or even violence. The best way to ignore the consequences is to avoid criticizing others. However, one can argue that criticism is important for growth and improvements and, therefore, is necessary for an alleged success. However, I disagree with this reasoning because criticism does not need to be always strong and destructive. It can be constructive as well. When you criticize someone constructively, the victim can understand it is not an attack but a call for improvement. It is a win-win situation.
While constructive criticism can lead us to improvements, its effect on the mind is also deteriorating. Repeated constructive criticism can have as much detrimental effect on the mind as some minor destructive comments. For instance, despite having experiences--my childhood struggle and adult life experiments [1]--in dealing with basic criticism, when I read the comments of my supervisor on my PhD thesis, I felt enraged. It's a very repetitive feeling that comes every time I open a newer version. I try to understand why I feel this way because these comments are important to improve the text, but none of my reasoning works.
I just finished correcting the 5/6th version of my thesis and while writing this post I still feel outraged. So the only thing I can suggest to you is please be polite with others while criticizing them, and do not be an asshole.
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[1] To gain confidence, I read many biographies and started experimenting. I learned new skills, improved my stamina, and gained strength and athletic abilities. I might talk about it someday.
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Mon, 17 Mar 2025
Stalking two birdy friends
This is a high time for my PhD thesis as I am planning to submit it by the end of this month. Although the writing was done almost six months ago, the corrections are still going on. Even the minor changes can sometimes take several hours to implement because they break the consistency of a hundred-page document. Indeed, my thesis is now around one hundred and seven pages long, which was corrected multiple times, and yet the mistakes are inevitable.
I have complained multiple times about my thesis. So here I wanted to talk about relaxing time. After working 7-8 hours straight on my thesis last Saturday, I was completely down, frustrated, and irritated. I did not speak for almost three hours while going on a walk with my wife because I did not want to say anything bitter or rude.
During the walk, we took a short break and sat next to a pond where there were a lot of ducks and a pair of Swan. My wife was fascinated by the long neck of Swan as this might be her first time seeing that bird so closely, outside the zoo. I, on the other hand, was more interested in ducks. I was stalking two ducks who were from different species but they were swimming together--almost like they were friends. When a third duck appeared, they chased it away.
I feel so funny right now (almost giggling) while telling you all about my duck stalking adventure. However, at that time, I was trying to digest what was happening. I was wondering, why these guys are together. Based on my knowledge of species evolution, this is a weird incident. There were other birds as well, mostly alone, except Swan--they are known to be a lifetime couple--but why these two birds from two different species are together?
I didn't make any revolutionary discovery that day but watching them calmed me down, which followed my first words after that long silence. I whispered in my wife's ear, look at those two birdy friends :P. That's the beauty of nature.
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Sun, 09 Mar 2025
Testing a new blogging platform
For a long time, I was looking for an alternative to Pyblosxom--my current static site generator. Although it has many capabilities, including support for dynamic web content, I was only using it to generate static pages for my blog. A couple of days ago, Manu posted an interview with a blogger, James, in his people and blogs series. James answers to the questions of Manu were very nice to read. I was immediately impressed by the calming vibe of James and his story of building blogging tools from scratch. This resonated with me for my current struggle with Pyblosxom.
Immediately after reading his tools, I started exploring James' static site generator, Aurora. Over this weekend, I was going through his code which is relatively simple and intuitive similar to Pyblosxom. There are several other features in Aurora such as setting up a template of blogposts, that are essential for an easy start to using this package. In addition, tags and categories are in-built in Aurora, which, incase of Pyblosxom, gave me a hard time making it work, even with default plugins. The code is built with Python-3 and only consists of three Python files, which makes it easy to read and play around. Moreover, its developer, James, is easily accessible by email, in case of any questions.
Pyblosxom, on the other hand, is outdated and only supports Python2 [1], which makes it hard to compile on different systems--I successfully compiled it on Mac but was unable to do it on Ubuntu and Raspberry-Pi. Most of its default plugins work fine, but they aren't very intuitive to use.
Moving from Pyblosxom to Aurora for blogging, although seems an improvement, brings its caveats. I found, specifically, four missing features in Aurora: the first one is creating static pages without adding them to main blog post lists (index-page). The second missing feature is to set up--or I couldn't find a way--different styles for different sections of websites. The third one is the lack of support for the Markdown extension in templates. This is one of the essential features, in my view, as to set up simple pages such as Garden, I need to use HTML code which looks ugly. In Pyblosxom this was easily managed by using Markdown code. The fourth, and final, missing feature is the result of the first missing feature. As there is no method to have static pages, there is no straightforward link to refer to a static page. This can be very simply resolved by adding a way to not publish pages and keep them in separate folders.
I am still exploring Aurora, and I have successfully moved my blog to it on my Mac. However, I haven't moved the static site from it to the server as I still do not feel confident about it. I am excited about the features I can add to my blog using Aurora.
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Update: Mar 12, 2025
Among the four problems I have mentioned, I was able to resolve two using meta-data and programing. These are very powerful features of Aurora as I can set up meta-data that can be used in programming (Jinja) to filter out the pages I want.
The problem-1 of "static-pages" can not be mitigated directly but by hidding them based on assigned category. Let's say I can set up "draft" category and ignore this category to be shown on main list of posts. This also resolved problem-4. However, problem-2 and 3 are still there.
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Wed, 05 Mar 2025
My own hell
Today was such a heavy day. I went to the office with partial motivation which is also slowly decreasing as per the uncertainty in my PhD thesis. In the department, there was not many people from the research group as the boss did not come. After I reached there, I was mostly messing around with my work computer: opening and closing tabs in the browsers, checking emails, opening the terminal, and running simulations.
I was also checking the latest news from Trump--my recent fascination--which makes me laugh because he has such good humor. It's amazing to see such a funny character as a ruler of a allegedly powerful country.
After an hour of passing time, I had a thought about my thesis that panicked me a little. Following this thought, more troubling ideas about my failure appeared. However, as I am relatively strong with my mind, I did not let it slide into a full panic attack. Yet this negative thinking affected my mood, further downgrading my motivation to work and call it a day. The result was me leaving the office earlier in the afternoon, and it is not normal. Later, I attended an obligatory online meeting which lasted almost two hours, draining the rest of my energy.
I have mentioned previously in other posts that it is a bit depressing time where I often ruminate about how much further I can handle the pressure of finishing my PhD. Even though I fulfilled all the required criteria in advance including writing a thesis and publishing articles, I could not submit my thesis without the permission of my supervisor. The thesis is still under review--may be at the nth iteration as I do not remember now--for almost a year with no certainty of finishing. It makes me angry as I can not do anything but wait, and have a hope that this will end soon.
There was a time when I used to dream of being a Physicist. I pushed hard to fulfill that dream but now it is turning into a nightmare. In one way, I have built my own hell.
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Mon, 03 Mar 2025
Social interaction's limit
Lately, I was re-reading a popular book, Sapiens: Brief History of Mankind by Yuval Noah Harari, and I noticed one super-interesting idea--at least for me--about the number of possible human connections.
Sociological research has shown that the maximum 'natural' size of a group bonded by gossip is about 150 individuals. Most people can neither intimately know, nor gossip effectively about, more than 150 human beings
Now applying it in the context of modern communication methods, the number of interactions is way larger. But the magic number, 150, still seems reasonable to me for intimate interactions. Although, it's hard to validate right now--may be in future I will experiment--but I can vaguely guess that around 50 people were/are close to me--different people at different phases--in my whole 30 years of life.
Now my count is lower than the magic number, and I suspect that it is different for others with upper limit fixed (150). It could also be further dropping as with modern technology the intimate relations are replaced by the large number of fake interactions that give illusion of connectivity to the society.
This is the irony of modern-well-connected society where people expect to be known among millions without having any real interactions
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Fri, 28 Feb 2025
Re: The cost of doing the right thing—Manu
Recently, Manu shared his struggle of deciding the appropriate fee for the work he does, professionally, or in hobby-related activities. He further mentioned about his feelings for the voluntary contributions people make for People and Blogs [P&B] series. He acknowledge that his work is important but when there is fluctuation in donations—even when the asked amount is very minuscule(1$)—it has an emotional impact on mind.
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Sun, 23 Feb 2025
Spring is coming
Today was a really nice springy day with 6-7 deg celsius temperature that might not look a lot but in here where I lives, it is an improvement over the past 4 months of cold weather. I went for a small hike (around 8km) with my friend who came back from Columbia after a couple of months. We were discussing so many things including politics, physical activity, and travelling—we were basically letting out all the crap that was accumulating inside us from many months. For a long time, I was craving for this.
In the woods, there were several marvellous things to see including trees that were turning green with shedded red leaves on the ground, reminding that old is giving a way to new. The ground which was covered partially with leaves and partially with the remains of the snow that stubbornly survived by hiding under the shadow of rocks, bushes and trees. Nearby, a woodpecker was making sound, "...trrrrrrrrrr...trrrrrrrrr...", probably making a new home for the coming summer. And among all these wonders, we were walking, talking and absorbing as much nature as we can.
In those moments, one of the nicest thing we discussed was "how going for a run in these forest is an spiritual experience". Although, I am currently on a break from running for almost 4 months now due to cold weather, I am a huge fan of it and do running at least from a couple of years. I tried running at crazy hours—for instance morning 3AM and evening 10PM—at very different terrain and locale including my current city, Warsaw (Poland). I practiced running in the beautiful capital of Finland, Helsinki, a small city of Norway, Gielo, and in a small village of Polish swiętokrzyskie mountain region known as Chęciny. In all these years of experimenting with running what I learnt is: running in nature not only clears my head and helps me to let out all the stress, but also let me connect to nature, and to my mind-body.
I might sound like an experienced runner, however, this was not always the case. From the childhood, I was more fond of mental stimulation than physical. In other words, I was a lazy boy who used to justify his lazyness by throwing scientific arguments and completely ignoring sports. This lasted for sometime untill the mental stimulation became mental burden—thanks to the lonelyness due to moving out to another country, which worsened due to overusage of social media. The whole story of this transition might be a topic of another day but now, I can not wait to restart running after this long and miserable time.
Oh wait, you have put so much effort to read it all, I should at least show you some pictures of my day including the surprise I got from my beloved wife :D.
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Sat, 22 Feb 2025
Blogging community and controversy
Re: Post from Bearblog
I run my blog by self-hosting it but I frequently visit Bearblog discover section to hunt for beautiful posts written by beautiful people. Many time, I thought about moving my blog to Bear untill a recent situation. After Manu posted his thoughts related to some post arguing readership over uniqueness (I guess you know what I am talking about), I decided to dig in and find the author. It turn out to be one of the bear-blogger (former now) who posted multiple times intriguing stuff. And yet, his one critical idea (or a mistake?) lead to a situation in which he quitted from Bearblog :(. When I read the reasoning on his new webpage, I spotted a very interesting pattern which is similar what I've observed on many social media groups where one single comment results a flood of criticism. He mentioned that how people did not understand the point, and critisized him not only by reposting but also on his email.
In my view reposting is an acceptable way to show disagreement but when someone receive several emails of criticism, it can be very hard. Most of us are so tired due to work/studies that getting critisized on your beloved blog is the last thing you want. Yet this can happen.
This made me think that having a blogging community is a curse as well as a boon. On one side I am excited about sharing my thoughts, but on other side I am scared about sharing them. So this explains my main dilemma of moving my blog from self-hosting to Bear.
So for now, I will try to continue posting on my blog with filtered—and occasional—cross posting here. However, I will regularly return to read your beautiful blogs :)
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Posted at: Sat, 22 Feb 2025 06:57 GMT
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Fri, 21 Feb 2025
Creativity vs Social media
After such a hectic day, I was reading a blog series People and Blogs and today's guest said something very important when he was asked about the creative environment for blogging.
The quality of my writing is directly impacted by the quality of my reading. If I’ve only been reading social media that day, my writing is anxious, poorly-framed, and staccato. If I’ve been reading long-form pieces, I find that it’s calmer and more reflective. It’s at its best when I’ve been reading a really good book.
Normally, people can not observe this or they might not be even aware of any correlation between their attention span and the type of material they consume. It's like a fish and water problem, where changes in water might not be felt by the fish, but it can adversely effect its life by slowly paralyzing it and ultimately killing it. Modern social media brought that small change in our environment with short-term entertainment, such as shorts and reels, as addictive drugs. These drugs do give short-term pleasure on consumption but also adversely affect your mental resources which you need for a normal life.
So if you want to save your mental resources, try to avoid social media as much as you can.
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Tue, 18 Feb 2025
The ultimate looser
Attention conservation notice: A student ruminating about his future.
Today, I sent a draft of my thesis—I lost count of the version number—to my supervisor with two unimplemented comments. I could have sent the draft a week ago, but I thought if I give myself some time, I would be able to address those comments. However, more than a year of everyday writing and regular correction of a 100 pages long document (my thesis), have depleted my energy so much that my mind simply is in inaction mode, or one can say that it does not care anymore. On top of it, to find my next job(postdoc), I need to regularly write applications, which further consumes the remains of my mental resources, including the small amount weekly recovered with the help of my family and loved ones.
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Sun, 16 Feb 2025
Cross-cultural interactions
Attention conservation notice: Self-assumed philosopher trying to be messiah
I remember reading somewhere what Buddha once said, "We all are the same" and my first impression of this statement was contradictory as we all differ in our life conditioning, such as culture, parenting, and the environment in which we grew up. But later, with time, I understood that it was about the mind—not even the brain—as the working of minds around ego seems quite similar for everyone.
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Posted at: Sun, 16 Feb 2025 09:10 GMT
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Sat, 15 Feb 2025
Playing with the design of blog
Attention conservation notice: Writing when I have nothing to write
For the past couple of days, I have been working--or trying to distract myself from professional work--tirelessly on the design of my blog as well as of my own Wikipedia. I was playing around with the current CSS file of the blog, which was taken from Pyblosxom themes. These templates were often too complex to understand for a beginner and were filled with styles of webpage elements that I was not going to use. Today I decided to make a fresh CSS file and marvelously in less than 50 lines I was able to design most of the elements of my blog. I am really proud of it.
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Wed, 12 Feb 2025
Writing postdoc applications
Attention conservation notice: Job suggestions from a soon to be jobless man.
Nowadays I am in postdoc-hunting mode and I am writing applications to find a position. The very first thing I check before writing to a potential supervisor is, his/her requirement in an application. One of the most common, but an important, requirement is CoverLetter. However, this might not always be the case as I also observed other synonyms for it such as Letter of interest. This is often a confusing part where the applicant might not be aware of the format of these documents and searching for them on the internet is a disaster.
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Mon, 10 Feb 2025
A perfect blog design or a nightmare
Attention conservation notice: A new blogger with a "perfect" blog in town
Designing a personal blog on Internet 2.0 seems an easy task as one can choose among various existing themes. However, choosing a template and modifying it to make it look like your perfect place on the internet is a nightmare. I have been playing with the design of my static website for a couple of weeks and it is very addictive. The first version was similar to my Cosma's weblog but it was quite messy with a lot of clutter.
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Posted at: Sun, 09 Feb 2025 23:00 GMT
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Sun, 09 Feb 2025
Making my own Wikipedia
Attention conservation notice: New fascination of a new blogger
I recently came to know about a fascinating idea of making an online Garden in Indie Blogging. An online garden is a personal space on the internet where the online presence of the user--or online gardener--grows with time in a well-structured manner. It is similar to a bio garden but instead of prospering in terms of plants, it's the online presence that evolves. Besides the general definition--which you can find here--it can be a place for me to dump my knowledge and keep track of it.
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Tue, 04 Feb 2025
Latexdiff on multiple files
I was recently exploring a method to compare different versions of my thesis in latex. Interestingly, there is no simple way except joining all files in one .tex file and compare it with a similar file of older version. The files can be done joined in one .tex file using a python module, flattex which can be directly installed in using Git.
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Mon, 03 Feb 2025
Re: that’s your internet, not mine
This is a reply to Ava's recent post where she asked about the thoughts on this question.
When I read that line, I thought about the ugliness of the internet in terms of exploiting social networking algorithms. I used to be a technology geek who was always updated with new gadgets, internet tools, and God-forbidden social networks. Luckily, I realized a couple of years ago that this was not what I had signed up for, and I quit all of them for good.
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Wed, 29 Jan 2025
Update: Our own guestbook
This is rather a small update than a blog post. Finally we have a guestbook of our own. Now you can click on the link Guestbook in top menu--if you are reading it on a computer--or in the droplist icon on your phone, and write comments.
For those who are unaware of the concept of a Guestbook, it is similar to a visitor log in which you write down something like, "I was here :)". For more details please check Wikipedia. I found visitor logs really amazing as you can mark your presence to the place you visited and show your appreciation. In the online era, it sounds less exciting but it is very similar idea. So if you are visiting my garden, please leave a nice comment. 🤗
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Tue, 28 Jan 2025
Online services: curse or boon?
Attention conservation notice: Ranting after a bad experience with an online service
Nowadays, almost everything is converting to online services. But that also means there is no direct person to contact with if something happens. To make matters worse, the service providers are now focusing on apps, dropping the website format that one can use on a computer.
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Sat, 25 Jan 2025
What should I write about?
Attention conservation notice: A beginner of Indie blogging is confused about blogging.
Recently, I got exposure to Indie blogging, which is a very nice way of socializing on the internet. Contrary to the modern way of posting on social media and expecting strangers--(un)wanted--to like or comment on it, this type of online interaction on a blog with people of similar interests seems like pure bliss.
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Mon, 20 Jan 2025
Will I survive in my PhD?
Attention conservation notice: A PhD student complaining about academia
Sometimes I wonder whether doing a PhD now a days is worthy enough? Particularly, when there is so much disparity in society including economical conditions. Ofcourse, the classic arguement "One should not do PhD to be rich" is valid but when the duration of PhD is only controlled by the supervisor, I wonder, how long one can live a life without enough money?
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Sun, 19 Jan 2025
Will I blog regularly?
Attention conservation notice: Doubting my ability to do anything regularly.
After getting inspired by a few bloggers whom I got the chance to know from reddit--actually subreddit of digitalminimalism--where they were mentioned on the FAQ page, I have decided that I will try to post more frequently. For that purpose, I am following the ideas of Annie Mueller to post regularly and open heartedly--I guess this does not include stupidity.
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Posted at: Sun, 19 Jan 2025 21:00 GMT
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Sun, 27 Oct 2024
YouTube is Distracting Me
Attention conservation notice: Just blaming others for my own problems.So I am writing now in my room thinking about many things as usual. My natural inclination when thinking is toward the phone, which I do not use that much. Conversely, I feel that the iPad is a big trouble now because I am just so comfortable watching tens of videos in one sitting. This is not a good idea for many reasons, including the
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Posted at: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 18:00 GMT
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Mon, 14 Oct 2024
Rumination
Attention conservation notice: Just dumping thoughts
It's not very clear what one thinks one wants, or may be it is just an illusion of abundance of choices, among which one think that he can choose a better option. But what is better choice? when the word better is defined only based on limited experiences and resulting perception. A question repeatedly comes to me, asking who am I? Many thinkers
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Posted at: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 22:00 GMT
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Sun, 28 Mar 2021
Categorising Indian monks
I grew up in a small town of North-India in a family of science-beliving parents and religious grandparents. As a beloved grandchild, I remember attending many talks of Sadhus (hermits) with my grandfather as well as a disciplined son, attending lectures on Maths and Physics by my father. Exposure to both Science and Philosophy/Mythology made
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Posted at: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 12:00 GMT
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Sun, 14 Mar 2021
Letter to Anne Frank
Dear Anne,
I read your diary, Kitty, recently, almost 75 years later, after you wrote it. I must say that you were born as a talented writer. Even in my late twenties, I can't write as well as you did in your diary at the age of thirteen. It was amazing to see the insight you have about life at that age which even many adults don't have at all in their whole life.
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Posted at: Sat, 13 Mar 2021 23:00 GMT
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