New Blog Who Dis?

Going forward this blog will be hosted on github.io

Space Travel vs Saving Terra

TLDR; Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson provides valuable perspective on how difficult it is for us to colonize other planets

• books
• life

Maps & Mondrian

Can we make Maps in the style of Mondrian?

• art
• geekery

Doors to Eclectic Musical Rabbit Holes

Some interesting music I discovered using Shazam & Youtube Music Radio

Do inauspicious days influence child birth date selection?

Part 0 Part 1 Part 2 We stir the data-pile a bit more this time around. We start with the question - does a certain portion of the population avoid inauspi...

What Amit & Pooja decide to call their kids (Part 2) (Delhi Schools - 3/n)

Story so far: Part 0  Part 1 Getting straight to it: Girls vs Women 8% of girls in the 2013-15 cohort have their name starting with AA ~25% of all girls h...

What Amit and Pooja decide to call their kids (Delhi Schools - 2/n)

Story so far: Part 1 A recent article about Indo Anglians was doing the rounds on my FB feed. This piece, in turn, references an older piece about First World Yoga Names. I nee...

Delhi Schools - 1/n

It’s admission season here in Delhi and kiddo is in the fray. The DOE does a pretty neat job of putting up registered applicants school wise here which is great if you’re queryi...