A personal travel story about nearly missing a bus home from IIT and then barely catching a flight from Bangalore — moments of adrenaline and relief described in a casual,…
Is TIME related to LUCK
VLC Error Window Removal — Mac
A short technical tip: to prevent VLC's persistent error dialogs from appearing, navigate to the app's Resources directory via Terminal and rename ErrorPanel.nib to…
Don't Have Internet Banking? Use PayTm
A practical financial hack from 2015: when banks are closed and you lack internet banking for IMPS, use PayTm's wallet — load it via debit/credit card and transfer to any bank…
My Tap Experiment @IITB
A social experiment at IIT Bombay: the author noticed a leaking tap, closed the valve, and timed how long the institute took to fix it. The answer: 3 days. The post reflects on…
Distractions: Facebook Newsfeed & Youtube
A productivity hack: custom CSS snippets to hide Facebook's newsfeed and chat sidebar, plus YouTube's suggested content sidebar. Instructions cover both Safari (custom stylesheet)…
IIT Bombay to Goa
A travelogue of 5 IIT Bombay students on a budget trip to Goa. Covers the train struggles, a hotel booking that didn't quite match the photos, exploration of Baga and Arambol…
Passport for IIT-Bombay Decoded
A complete document checklist for IIT Bombay students applying for passports. Lists required documents (birth certificate, school certificates, bonafide, residential certificate,…
Download Youtube Videos in Any Format — Terminal/Mac
A step-by-step terminal tutorial for Mac: install Homebrew, then youtube-dl and ffmpeg. Includes commands for downloading entire playlists with limits and batch-converting .mp4…
8-point FFT in CCS — Hardcoded
A C code listing for computing an 8-point FFT on the sequence {1,0,2,0,3,0,4,0} using hardcoded twiddle factor calculations, targeting the USBSTK5515 DSP platform in Code Composer…
FIITJEE Coimbatore
A candid assessment of FIITJEE's Coimbatore coaching center, highlighting disparities versus Chennai centers, uneven teacher allocation across batches, issues with hostel and…
Tamilanda
A single embedded Facebook video post with no additional text. A snapshot of early-2010s social media cross-posting — when embedding was novel and the video itself was the
Nature
A link to a YouTube video (ID: MN8JYhByVYg) with no additional commentary. Minimal, raw — the early blogging era where sharing a video was a complete
I AM NOT GOING TO RETARD
A raw reaction to the Hyderabad blasts, frustrated that friends dismissed the question of 'why' bombings happen. The author argues that people accept terror attacks as normal —…
Money
Inspired by 'Rich Dad Poor Dad,' this post discusses financial literacy and claims that U.S. schools removed money-management topics in the 1970s. References SEBI's 'Pocket Money'…
Intro...
The blog's first post. The author introduces himself as an IIT Bombay student from Tamil Nadu (Erode district), proud of his origins, a fan of 'Neeya Naana' and Bigg Boss Tamil,…
Youngsters
Laments youth disengagement from politics and social issues. Notes that none of the author's 700+ Facebook friends list politics as an interest, calling young people 'horses for…