if there is a will there is a way

Often my friends and I discuss about India’s economy, its corrupt politicians and our role as educated Indian citizens. But more often than not, the discussion ends with frustration and without any solution or commitment to change. The problem is that we aspire for a radical change, much like a change brought by Amir Khan and his friends [...]

Cheat Sheet for English!

Being a PhD student, I am required to be a good English writer. But, I am not. I am a good programmer. This mismatch between my strengths and weaknesses in relation to my profession, a PhD Student, has particularly annoyed me for almost two years.
However, recently I came across George Gopen’s excellent book on English writing, ”The Sense of Structure“. [...]

“Fox, Rabbit, Lion and PhD”

In the book, “Woman, Fire, and Dangerous Things“, George Lakoff takes 632 pages to tell the  relation between women, fire, and dangerous things. Here, I will take few lines to connect Fox, Rabbit, Lion and PhD. Yes, by PhD I mean “Doctor of Philosophy” and not some animal.

Once,  there was a young, but timid, rabbit. While he was enjoying the beautiful fall weather [...]

Interesting World Population Distribution Cartogram

 
Source: WorldMapper  (Link to Map)
Geographers always find innovative ways to display geographic data and at the same time amuse people. One such map technique that I always find very interesting is cartograms.  I was just checking about India’s population and came across this cartogram.
The funniest thing was that as soon as my friend saw the above map, he compared India to [...]

Nutrition Calculator

Recently, I have been keeping a close watch on nutrition, mainly as I am trying to get rid of some excess kgs. I was suprised how bad are most fast food restaurants in reporting the nutritional value in their food. Most of these fast food restaurants allow customizing food, but their websites rarely provide options to determine exact calorie in your customized food. Hence, below [...]